Estimation and analysis of soil hydraulic properties through infiltration experiments: Comparison of BEST and DL fitting methods

Soil Use and Management

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 354-361

  Xu, X ^a   Kiely, G ^a   Lewis, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Beerkan method; Differentiated linearization method; Soil hydraulic properties

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; SATURATION; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL TEXTURE;

EID: 70450184997     PISSN: 02660032     EISSN: 14752743     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00218.x     Document Type: Article

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