Shallow subsurface drainage in an irrigated vertisol with a perched water table

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 261-282

  Muirhead, W A ^a   Humphreys, E ^a   Jayawardane, N S ^a   Moll, J L ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Gas filled porosity; Irrigation; Subsurface drainage; Vertisol; Water table; Waterlogging

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; SUBSURFACE DRAINAGE; VERTISOL; WATER TABLE;

EID: 0030468421     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0378-3774(95)01225-7     Document Type: Article

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