Upscaling schemes and relationships for the Gardner and van Genuchten hydraulic functions for heterogeneous soils

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 186-195

  Zhu, Jianting ^a   Young, Michael H ^a   Van Genuchten, Martinus Th ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HETEROGENEITY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MOISTURE CONTENT; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL MOISTURE; SUBSURFACE FLOW; UPSCALING; VERTICAL MOVEMENT;

MOJAVE DESERT; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547873520     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2006.0041     Document Type: Article

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