Estimating unsaturated soil hydraulic properties from laboratory tension disc infiltrometer experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 2965-2979

  Šimůnek, Jiří ^a   Wendroth, Ole ^b   Van Genuchten, Martinus T ^a  

^a U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPE RESEARCH ZALF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FUNCTIONS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PORE PRESSURE; REFLECTOMETERS; TENSILE TESTING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MARQUARDT-LEVENBERG OPTIMIZATION; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; RICHARDS EQUATION; TENSION DISC INFILTROMETERS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR);

SOIL MECHANICS;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; LOAM; SOIL PROPERTY; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 0032844358     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900179     Document Type: Article

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