Soil water retention measurements using a combined tensiometer-coiled time domain reflectometry probe

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1752-1759

  Vaz, Carlos M P ^a   Hopmans, Jan W ^a   Macedo, Alvaro ^b   Bassoi, Luis H ^a   Wildenschild, Dorthe ^c  

^a EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COPPER; PERMITTIVITY; POLYNOMIAL APPROXIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; PROBES;

WATER RETENTION CURVES;

SOILS;

SOIL WATER; TENSIOMETER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 0036853096     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2002.1752     Document Type: Article

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