Introducing fractal dimension to estimation of soil sensitivity to preferential flow

Pedosphere

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 201-206

  Cheng, Zhuhua ^a   Zhang, Jiabao ^a   Zhu, Anning ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Dye tracing; Fractal dimension; Preferential flow; Sensitivity; Soil clay content

Indexed keywords

DYE TRACER; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLE SIZE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SANDY LOAM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SOIL PROFILE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0242504559     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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