Subsurface tension permeametry

Water Resources Research

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 2043-2053

  Or, D ^a   Shani, U ^b   Warrick, A W ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PERMEAMETER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOW;

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

CAPILLARY LENGTH; ESTIMATED PARAMETER; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SATURATION MEASUREMENT; SPHEROIDAL CAVITIES; STEADY-STATE FLOW CONDITIONS; SUBATMOSPHERIC PRESSURES; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 0033858184     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000WR900121     Document Type: Article

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