Estimating infiltration parameters from basic soil properties

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 687-701

  Van De Genachte, G ^a   Mallants, D ^a   Ramos, J ^a   Deckers, J A ^a   Feyen, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Infiltration parameters; Principal components analysis; Soil properties; Tropical forest soils

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; POROSITY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SOILS; TROPICS;

ARENOSOL; BASIC SOIL PROPERTIES; FERRALSOL; GREEN-AMPT MODEL; GUYANA; KOSTIAKOV MODEL; MULTICOLLINEARITY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS; TROPICAL RAIN FOREST;

INFILTRATION;

INFILTRATION; SOIL PROPERTIES; SOIL WATER; TROPICAL FOREST;

GUYANA;

EID: 0030136529     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199605)10:5<687::aid-hyp311>3.0.co;2-p     Document Type: Article

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