Soil hydraulic properties of two loess soils in China measured by various field-scale and laboratory methods

Catena

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 264-273

  Zhang, Shulan ^a,b   Lövdahl, Lars ^b   Grip, Harald ^b   Tong, Yanan ^a  

^a NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Guelph permeameter; Hot air method; Internal drainage method; Saturated hydraulic conductivity; Soil water retention; Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

Indexed keywords

FIELD METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; LOESS; SILTY LOAM; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; HEYANG; MIZHI; SHAANXI;

EID: 33847311847     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2006.06.005     Document Type: Article

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