Scaling parameters of the Lewis-Kostiakov water infiltration equation across soil textural classes and extension to rain infiltration

Transactions of the ASABE

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1525-1541

  Ahuja, Lajpat R ^a   Kozak, Joseph A ^b   Andales, Allan A ^c   Ma, Liwang ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago   (United States)

^c Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Green Ampt equation; Hydrological modeling; Incipient ponding infiltration; Initial soil moisture on infiltration; Non instantaneous ponding infiltration; Physical basis of Kostiakov equation parameters; Root Zone Water Quality Model; RZWQM

Indexed keywords

GREEN-AMPT EQUATION; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INCIPIENT PONDING INFILTRATION; INITIAL SOIL MOISTURE ON INFILTRATIONG; ROOT ZONE WATER QUALITY MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SCALING LAWS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOILS;

INFILTRATION;

EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; INDEX METHOD; INFILTRATION; RHIZOSPHERE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 36249019983     PISSN: 21510032     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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