Free-form estimation of soil hydraulic properties using Wind's method

European Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1228-1240

  Iden, S C ^a   Durner, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER FLOW;

EID: 56649092602     PISSN: 13510754     EISSN: 13652389     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2008.01068.x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. Arya, L.M. 2002. Wind and Hot-Air methods. In : Methods of Soil Analysis - Part 4: Physical Methods (eds J.H. Dane G.C. Topp pp. 916 926, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.
2. Bitterlich, S., Durner, W., Iden, S.C. Knabner, P. 2004. Inverse estimation of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties from column outflow experiments using free-form parameterizations, Vadose Zone Journal, 3, 971 981.
3. Brun, R., Reichert, P. Künsch, H.R. 2001. Practical identifiability analysis of large environmental simulation models, Water Resources Research, 37, 1015 1030.
4. Burnham, K.P. Anderson, D.R. 2002. Model Selection and Multimodel Inference - A practical information-theoretic approach, Springer, New York.
5. Dane, J.H. Topp, G.C. 2002. Methods of Soil Analysis - Part 4: Physical Methods, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.
6. Duan, Q., Sorooshian, S. Gupta, H. 1992. Effective and efficient global optimization for conceptual rainfall-runoff models, Water Resources Research, 28, 1015 1031.
7. Durner, W. 1994. Hydraulic conductivity estimation for soils with heterogeneous pore structure, Water Resources Research, 30, 211 223.
8. Durner, W., Jansen, U. Iden, S.C. 2008. Effective hydraulic properties of layered soils at the lysimeter scale determined by inverse modelling, European Journal of Soil Science, 59, 114 124, doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2389.2007.00972.x
9. Fayer, M.J. Simmons, C.S. 1995. Modified soil water retention functions for all matric suctions, Water Resources Research, 31, 1233 1238.
10. Halbertsma, J.M. Veerman, G.J. 1994. A new calculation procedure and simple set-up for the evaporation method to determine soil hydraulic properties, Technical Report 88, DLO Winand Staring Centre, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
11. Hopmans, J.W., Simunek, J., Romano, N. Durner, W. 2002. Simultaneous determination of water transmission and retention properties. Inverse methods. In : Methods of Soil Analysis. Part 4-Physical Methods (eds J.H. Dane G.C. Topp pp. 963 1004, Soil Science Society of America, Madison, WI.
12. Iden, S.C. Durner, W. 2007. Free-form estimation of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties by inverse modeling using global optimization, Water Resources Research, 43, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005845
13. Leij, F.J., Russell, W.B. Lesch, S.M. 1997. Closed-form expressions for water retention and conductivity data, Ground Water, 35, 848 858.
14. Mohrath, D., Bruckler, L., Bertuzzi, P., Gaudu, J.C. Bourlet, M. 1997. Error analysis of an evaporation method for determining hydrodynamic properties in unsaturated soil, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 61, 725 735.
15. Mualem, Y. 1976. A new model for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated porous media, Water Resources Research, 12, 513 521.
16. Peters, A. Durner, W. 2006. Improved estimation of soil water retention characteristics from hydrostatic column experiments, Water Resources Research, 42, W11401, doi: 10.1029/2006WR004952
17. Priesack, E. Durner, W. 2006. Closed-form expression for the multi-modal unsaturated conductivity function, Vadose Zone Journal, 5, 121 124.
18. Romano, N. Santini, A. 1999. Determining soil hydraulic functions from evaporation experiments by a parameter estimation approach: Experimental verifications and numerical studies, Water Resources Research, 35, 3343 3359.
19. Ross, P.J. Smettem, K.R.J. 1993. Describing soil hydraulic properties with sums of simple functions, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 57, 26 29.
20. Russo, D. 1988. Determining soil hydraulic properties by parameter estimation: on the selection of a model for the hydraulic properties. Water Resources Research, 24, 453 459.
21. Schindler, U. Müller, L. 2006. Simplifying the evaporation method for quantifying soil hydraulic properties. Journal of Plant Nutrition & Soil Science, 169, 623 629, doi: 10.1002/jpln.200521895
22. Simunek, J., Wendroth, O. van Genuchten, M.T. 1998a. A parameter estimation analysis of the evaporation method for determining soil hydraulic properties, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 62, 894 905.
23. Simunek, L., Huang, K., Sejna, M. van Genuchten, M.T. 1998b, The HYDRUS-1D software package for simulating the one-dimensional movement of water, heat and multiple solutes in variably-saturated media, version 2.02. IGWMC-TPS-70, International Groundwater Modeling Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO.
24. Tamari, S., Bruckler, L., Halbertsma, J. Chadoeuf, J. 1993. A simple method for determining soil hydraulic properties in the laboratory, Soil Science Society of America Journal, 57, 642 651.
25. van Dam, J.C., de Rooij, G.H., Heinen, M. Stagnitti, F. 2004. Concepts and dimensionality in modeling unsaturated water flow and solute transport. In : Unsaturated-zone Modeling (eds R.A. Feddes, G.H. de Rooij J.C. van Dam pp. 1 36. Wageningen UR Frontis Series, Kluwer Acad Publ., Dordrecht, the Netherlands.
26. van Genuchten, M.T. 1980. A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 44, 892 898.
27. Vogel, T., van Genuchten, M.T. Cislerova, M. 2001. Effect of the shape of the soil hydraulic functions near saturation on variably- saturated flow predictions. Advances in Water Resources, 24, 133 144.
28. Vrugt, J.A., Bouten, W., Gupta, H.V. Hopmans, J.W. 2003. Toward improved identifiability of soil hydraulic parameters: On the selection of a suitable parametric model. Vadose Zone Journal, 2, 98 113.
29. Wendroth, O., Ehlers, W., Hopmans, J.W., Klage, H., Halbertsma, J. Wösten, J.H.M. 1993. Reevaluation of the evaporation method for determining hydraulic functions in unsaturated soils. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 57, 1436 1443.
30. Wind, G.P. 1968. Capillary conductivity data estimated by a simple method. In : Water in the Unsaturated Zone, Proceedings of Wageningen Syposium, June 1966 Vol.1 (eds P.E. Rijtema H Wassink pp. 181 191, IASAH, Gentbrugge, Belgium.