Predicting the soil water retention curve from readily-available data obtained during soil surveys

International Agrophysics

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 185-188

  Simota, C ^a   Mayr, T ^b  

^a Res Inst Soil Sci and Agrochem   (Romania)

^b Soil Survey and Land Research Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Model; Pedotransfer functions; Soil water retention; Van genuchten equation

Indexed keywords

PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL MAP; SOIL SURVEY; SOIL WATER RETENTION; VAN GENUCHTEN;

EID: 0030324210     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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