Field-scale water flow simulations using ensembles of pedotransfer functions for soil water retention

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 234-247

  Guber, A K ^a   Pachepsky, Ya A ^b   Van Genuchten, M Th ^c   Rawls, W J ^b   Simunek, J ^a   Jacques, D ^d   Nicholson, T J ^e   Cady, R E ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^d BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

^e U S NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENSEMBLE FORECASTING; FLOW MEASUREMENT; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL REGIME; LYSIMETER; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW;

BELGIUM; BENELUX; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 34547924803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0111     Document Type: Article

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