Estimating soil hydraulic parameters of a field drainage experiment using inverse techniques

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 201-211

  Fred Zhang, Z ^a   Ward, Andy L ^a   Gee, Glendon W ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POROUS MATERIALS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOILS;

CONTAMINANT TRANSPORT; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; NON-LINEAR REGRESSION METHOD; PARAMETER IDENTIFIABILITY; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA;

INVERSE PROBLEMS;

EID: 4644305298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2003.2010     Document Type: Article

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