Determining water content and saturation from dielectric measurements in layered materials

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 85-93

  Chan, Christina Y ^a   Knight, Rosemary J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GROUNDWATER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; POROUS MATERIALS; SATURATION (MATERIALS COMPOSITION);

SAND-FINE SYSTEMS;

SAND;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; LAYERED MEDIUM; SATURATION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 0032955807     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998WR900039     Document Type: Article

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