Anisotropy factor of saturated and unsaturated soils

Water Resources Research

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2006, Pages

  Assouline, S ^a,b   Or, D ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANISOTROPY FACTOR; MODEL PREDICTIONS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER SATURATION;

SOILS;

ANISOTROPY; FLOW PATTERNS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SOILS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

ANISOTROPY; BULK DENSITY; FLOW PATTERN; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELING; SATURATION; SOIL TYPE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

EID: 33846671789     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005001     Document Type: Article

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