A physically derived water content/permittivity calibration model for coarse-textured, layered soils

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1372-1378

  Robinson, D A ^a   Jones, S B ^a   Blonquist Jr , J M ^a   Friedman, S P ^b  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRYING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PERMITTIVITY; PHASE INTERFACES; POROUS MATERIALS; QUARTZ; WATER; WETTING;

BULK DENSITY; EFFECTIVE PERMITTIVITY; LAYERED SOILS; TWO-PHASE PORE-SCALE MIXING;

SOILS;

CALIBRATION; MODEL; PERMITTIVITY; SOIL TEXTURE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 24644516525     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2004.0366     Document Type: Article

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