A field study of unstable preferential flow during soil water redistribution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Wang, Zhi ^a   Wu, Laosheng ^b   Harter, Thomas ^c   Lu, Jianhang ^b   Jury, William A ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Field; Finger; Matric potential gradient; Preferential flow; Redistribution; Unstable

Indexed keywords

CAPILLARITY; DIFFUSION; INFILTRATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; SOILS; WETTING;

NONSTRUCTURED SOIL; SOIL WATER REDISTRIBUTION;

WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS;

INFILTRATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL; WETTING;

INFILTRATION; MATRIC POTENTIAL; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL WATER; WETTING FRONT;

EID: 17044457509     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001WR000903     Document Type: Article

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