Modeling soil water retention curve with a fractal method

Pedosphere

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 137-146

  Huang, Guan Hua ^a   Zhang, Ren Duo ^b   Huang, Quan Zhong ^a  

^a CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Fractal dimension; Soil texture; Soil water retention curve

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL ANALYSIS; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 33645576845     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(06)60036-2     Document Type: Article

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