Use of soil texture, bulk density, and slope of the water retention curve to predict saturated hydraulic conductivity

Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 983-988

  Rawls, W J ^a,d   Gimenez, D ^b   Grossman, R ^c  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Flow models; Hydraulic properties; Saturated hydraulic conductivity; Soil

Indexed keywords

DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; TEXTURES;

KOZENY-CARMAN EQUATION;

SOILS;

BULK DENSITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SATURATED MEDIUM; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 0032124197     PISSN: 00012351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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