Gas transport parameters in the vadose zone: Gas diffusivity in field and lysimeter soil profiles

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1194-1204

  Kawamoto, Ken ^a   Moldrup, Per ^b   Schjønning, Per ^c   Iversen, Bo V ^c   Rolston, Dennis E ^d   Komatsu, Toshiko ^a  

^a SAITAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; DIFFUSIVITY; GAS TRANSPORT; LYSIMETER; MATRIC POTENTIAL; POROSITY; SOIL EMISSION; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE; TORTUOSITY; VADOSE ZONE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 34250781072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2006.0014     Document Type: Article

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