Determining soil hydraulic functions from evaporation experiments by a parameter estimation approach: Experimental verifications and numerical studies

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 3343-3359

  Romano, Nunzio ^a   Santini, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 0032742222     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900155     Document Type: Article

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