Water potential in nonrigid unsaturated soil-water medium

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2004, Pages

  Braudeau, Erik ^a,d   Mohtar, Rabi H ^b,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b CIRAD   (France)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

Pedostructure; Shrinkage curves; Soil water thermodynamics; Soil pore fractal; Soil water hydration forces; Tensiometric curves

Indexed keywords

CLAY; FRACTALS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROSITY; SOILS; SWELLING; THERMODYNAMICS;

SHRINKAGE CURVES; TENSIOMETRIC CURVES; THERMODYNAMICAL EQUATIONS; WATER POTENTIAL;

WATER RESOURCES;

MATRIC POTENTIAL; SHRINKAGE; SOIL WATER; TENSIOMETER; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 2942715200     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003119     Document Type: Article

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