Reevaluation of the multistep outflow method for determining unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 409-415

  Fujimaki, Haruyuki ^a   Inoue, Mitsuhiro ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; POROUS PLATES; STREAM FLOW;

ACCURATE PREDICTION; CERAMIC PLATES; DIRECT METHOD; DOWNWARD FLOW; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; OPTIMIZATION METHOD; PLATE INTERFACES; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY;

SOILS;

EID: 67149110384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2003.4090     Document Type: Article

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