Quantification of uncertainty in pedotransfer function-based parameter estimation for unsaturated flow modeling

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Deng, Hailin ^a   Ye, Ming ^a   Schaap, Marcel G ^b   Khaleel, Raziuddin ^c  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c Fluor Government Group   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADDITIONAL SAMPLES; BOOTSTRAP METHOD; BULK DENSITY; CO-KRIGING; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; INPUT UNCERTAINTY; INPUT VARIABLES; LIMITED DATA; LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; MOISTURE CONTENTS; MOISTURE FLOW; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; PREDICTION INTERVAL; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL TEXTURES; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TRANSPORT MODELING; UNSATURATED FLOWS;

FLOW SIMULATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; METAL ANALYSIS; MOISTURE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BOOTSTRAPPING; FLOW MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENT; MOISTURE FLUX; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL VARIATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UNSATURATED FLOW;

EID: 67649858790     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007477     Document Type: Article

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