A global multilevel coordinate search procedure for estimating the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 6-1-6-15

  Lambot, S ^a   Javaux, M ^a   Hupet, F ^a   Vanclooster, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Global optimization; Hydraulic properties; Inverse modeling

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYDRAULICS; HYDROLOGY; MOISTURE;

UNSATURATED SOIL;

SOILS;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INVERSE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0036880538     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001wr001224     Document Type: Article

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