Measured and simulated soil wetting patterns under porous clay pipe sub-surface irrigation

Agricultural Water Management

Volumn 96, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 893-904

  Siyal, A A ^a   Skaggs, T H ^b  

^a SINDH AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^b U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hydraulic conductivity; HYDRUS; Micro irrigation; Porous clay pipe; Soil wetting; Sub surface irrigation

Indexed keywords

ARID REGIONS; CLAY MINERALS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IRRIGATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TEXTURES; UNDERWATER SOILS; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER CONTENT; WETTING;

ARID AND SEMI-ARID REGIONS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; HYDRUS; LAYERED SOILS; MICRO-IRRIGATION; OBSERVED DATUM; PIPE SYSTEMS; POROUS CLAY PIPE; SOIL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; SOIL TEXTURES; SOIL WATER CONTENTS; SOIL WETTING PATTERNS; SUB-SURFACE IRRIGATION; SURFACE EVAPORATIONS; SYSTEM DESIGNS; SYSTEM PRESSURES; WATER LOSS; WATER PRESSURES; WATER RETENTIONS; WATER SAVINGS;

CLAY PIPE;

ARID REGION; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IRRIGATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODELING; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; SPACING; WATER CONTENT; WETTING;

EID: 62249106615     PISSN: 03783774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.agwat.2008.11.013     Document Type: Article

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