Modeling the soil water retention curve for conditions of variable porosity

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 602-613

  Florian Stange, C ^a,b   Horn, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTABLE COEFFICIENT; AGRICULTURAL SOILS; APPLIED MECHANICAL STRESS; APPLIED STRESS; HYDRAULIC STRESS; MEASURED DATA; MECHANICAL COMPACTION; OBSERVED RETENTION; PORE SPACE; POROSITY MODELS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SILTY SOILS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL PORES; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL WATER RETENTION; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; UNSATURATED SOIL; VARIABLE POROSITY; VOID RATIOS; VOLUME CHANGE; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

AGRICULTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; POROSITY; SOIL MOISTURE; STRESSES;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EID: 33747333715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0150     Document Type: Article

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