Eff ective soil hydraulic parameters for transient flows in heterogeneous soils

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 301-309

  Zhu, Jianting ^a   Sun, Dongmin ^b  

^a DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; SOIL WATER;

EID: 67149123657     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2008.0004     Document Type: Article

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