Simple modification to describe the soil water retention curve between saturation and oven dryness

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2006, Pages

  Khlosi, Muhammed ^a   Cornelis, Wim M ^a   Gabriels, Donald ^a   Sin, Gürkan ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOILS;

DRYNESS; MATRIC POTENTIALS; SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVE;

POROUS MATERIALS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOILS;

ADSORPTION; MATRIC POTENTIAL; POROUS MEDIUM; SATURATION; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; WATER FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 33846355764     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005WR004699     Document Type: Article

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