Modeling the soil shrinkage and water retention curves with the same equations

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1082-1093

  Boivin, Pascal ^a   Garnier, Patricia ^b   Vauclin, Michel ^c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE DE GLACIOLOGIE ET GÉOPHYSIQUE DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

SHRINKAGE CURVES (SHC); SOIL SHRINKAGE; TRANSITION POINTS; WATER RETENTION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

CURVE FITTING; GRAVIMETRIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS;

CLAY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GRAVIMETRY; MINERALOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHRINKAGE; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 33745923824     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2005.0218     Document Type: Article

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