Using pedotransfer functions in vadose zone models for estimating groundwater recharge in semiarid regions

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Wang, Tiejun ^a,b   Zlotnik, Vitaly A ^a   Šimunek, Jirka ^c   Schaap, Marcel G ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Environmental Research Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT HEAD; DATA SETS; GRADIENT FLOW; GROUND WATER RECHARGE; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; INPUT PARAMETER; LOAMY SAND; LOWER BOUNDARY; LOWER BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; PARAMETER SPACES; PARAMETERIZATIONS; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; SEMI-ARID REGION; SHALLOW WATER TABLES; SHAPE FACTOR; SOIL HYDRAULICS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; VADOSE ZONE; VAN GENUCHTEN MODEL;

AQUIFERS; ARID REGIONS; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC TOOLS; HYDROGEOLOGY; RECHARGING (UNDERGROUND WATERS); SAND; SOIL MOISTURE; STATISTICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA SET; HISTOGRAM; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; LOAMY SAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; RECHARGE; SEMIARID REGION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; VADOSE ZONE; WATER TABLE;

EID: 67649865632     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006903     Document Type: Article

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