Head and flux variability in heterogeneous unsaturated soils under transient flow conditions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1471-1479

  Ferrante, Marco ^a   Yeh, T C Jim ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOW KINETICS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; SOIL;

HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM; PRESSURE GRADIENT; SOIL WATER; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNSATURATED MEDIUM;

EID: 0345161495     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999WR900005     Document Type: Article

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