Estimating van Genuchten Model Parameters of Undisturbed Soils Using an Integral Method

Pedosphere

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-62

  HAN, Xiang Wei ^a,b   SHAO, Ming An ^b   HORTON, R ^c  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

horizontal infiltration; normalized root mean square error (NRMSE); root mean square error (RMSE); water retention; Willmott's index

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CENTRIFUGE; CLAY SOIL; GRAPHICAL METHOD; INFILTRATION; LOAM; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 76249117654     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(09)60282-4     Document Type: Article

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