An objective analysis of the dynamic nature of field capacity

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Twarakavi, Navin K C ^a   Sakai, Masaru ^b   Šimůnek, Jirka ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC NATURE; FIELD CAPACITY; HYDRUS-1D; MODELING APPROACH; NUMERICAL APPROACHES; OBJECTIVE ANALYSIS; OR FLUXES; PRESSURE HEADS; QUANTITATIVE APPROACH; REAL-WORLD; RETENTION CURVE; RICHARDS EQUATION; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL PARAMETERS; VARIABLY SATURATED FLOW;

ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GROUNDWATER; HYDRAULICS; RAIN; SOIL MOISTURE;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA SET; FIELD CAPACITY; GUIDELINE; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOFTWARE; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER FLOW;

EID: 72149099603     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009WR007944     Document Type: Article

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