Evaporation beneath the soil surface: Some observational evidence and numerical experiments

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 12, Issue 13-14, 1998, Pages 2193-2203

  Yamanaka, Tsutomu ^a,c   Takeda, Atsushi ^b   Shimada, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR EARTH SCIENCE AND DISASTER PREVENTION   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diurnal variation; Evaporation; Hydraulic property; Numerical method; Soil moisture

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; BOUNDARY LAYERS; EVAPORATION; HYDRAULICS; LYSIMETERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

DRY SURFACE LAYERS (DSL);

SOILS;

DIURNAL VARIATION; EVAPORATION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE;

EID: 0032194312     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(19981030)12:13/14<2193::aid-hyp729>3.0.co;2-p     Document Type: Article

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