Estimating soil hydraulic properties and their uncertainty: The use of stochastic simulation in the inverse modelling of the evaporation method

Geoderma

Volumn 126, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 277-290

  Minasny, Budiman ^a   Field, Damien J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Hydraulic properties; Inverse problem; Richards equation; Soil water balance; Uncertainty; Unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURVE FITTING; EVAPORATION; FUNCTIONS; HYDRAULICS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RELIABILITY;

GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATION (GLUE); NONLINEAR LEAST-SQUARES (NLLS) TECHNIQUE; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SOIL WATER RETENTION;

SOILS;

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MODELING; SOIL PROPERTY;

EID: 18044380547     PISSN: 00167061     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2004.09.015     Document Type: Article

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