Free-form estimation of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties by inverse modeling using global optimization

Water Resources Research

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Iden, S C ^a   Durner, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

OPTIMIZATION STRATEGY; SOIL WATER RETENTION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

ALGORITHMS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL WATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 36649006457     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006WR005845     Document Type: Article

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