Improved estimation of soil water retention characteristics from hydrostatic column experiments

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Peters, A ^a   Durner, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

HYDROSTATIC COLUMNS; SOIL WATER RETENTION; TRUE FUNCTIONS; WATER CONTENT DISTRIBUTION;

SOILS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS; TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NONLINEARITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POROUS MEDIUM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 33846343679     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR004952     Document Type: Article

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