Solute transport dynamics by high-resolution dye tracer experiments-image analysis and time moments

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 856-865

  Persson, Magnus ^a   Haridy, Sahar ^a   Olsson, Jonas ^b   Wendt, Johan ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b SWEDISH METEOROLOGICAL AND HYDROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; AVERAGE FILTER; CALIBRATION SAMPLES; CRITICAL LEVEL; CRITICAL VALUE; DISPERSIVITY; DYE CONCENTRATION; DYE TRACER; HELE-SHAW CELLS; HIGH RESOLUTION; MESOSCALE; PLEXIGLAS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SECOND ORDERS; SOIL COLORS; SOLUTE CONCENTRATIONS; TIME MOMENTS; TRANSPORT DYNAMICS; TRANSPORT PROCESS; UNSATURATED SOIL;

CALIBRATION; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); EXPERIMENTS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SEEPAGE; SOILS;

SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 34247557896     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2004.0129     Document Type: Article

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