Estimation of hydraulic properties of vertically heterogeneous forest soil from transient matric pressure data

Water Resources Research

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 58-1-58-18

  Kosugi, Ken'ichirou ^a   Inoue, Mitsuhiro ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Instantaneous profile method; Inverse method; Soil heterogeneity; Soil hydraulic conductivity; Soil water retention

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; DATA ACQUISITION; FORESTRY; HYDRAULIC DRIVES; SOILS;

TRANSIENT MATRIC PRESSURE;

WATER RESOURCES;

FOREST SOIL; HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; SOIL WATER;

EID: 0037004085     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002wr001546     Document Type: Article

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