In situ monitoring of water percolation and solute transport using a vadose zone monitoring system

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 916-925

  Dahan, Ofer ^a   Talby, Ruti ^a   Yechieli, Yoseph ^b   Adar, Eilon ^a   Lazarovitch, Naftali ^a   Enzel, Yehouda ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW MODELING; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; INFILTRATION; PERCOLATION; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; REFLECTOMETRY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TRACER; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 70749135254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2008.0134     Document Type: Article

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