Effects of soil heterogeneity on steady state soil water pressure head under a surface line source

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 17-1-17-14

  Zhang, Z Fred ^a   Parkin, Gary W ^b   Kachanoski, R Gary ^c   Smith, James E ^a  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Line source; Perturbation; Soil heterogeneity; Spectral relationship; Stream plane model

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS;

HETEROGENOUS SOIL;

WATER RESOURCES;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE FIELD; SOIL; WATER CONTENT;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE FIELD; SOIL WATER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 0036661685     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000wr000019     Document Type: Article

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