Characterizing water fingering phenomena in soils using magnetic resonance imaging and multifractal theory

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 159-168

  Posadas, A ^a,c   Quiroz, R ^a   Tannus A ^b   Crestana, S ^c   Vaz, C M ^c  

^a INTERNATIONAL POTATO CENTER   (Peru)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c EMBRAPA CERRADOS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGING METHOD; INFILTRATION; POROUS MEDIUM; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL WATER; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UNSATURATED MEDIUM; WATER FLOW;

EID: 61449256236     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-16-159-2009     Document Type: Article

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