Investigating preferential flow processes in a forest soil using time domain reflectometry and electrical resistivity tomography

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 350-361

  Oberdorster C ^a,b   Vanderborght, J ^a   Kemna, A ^b   Vereecken, H ^a  

^a FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRIVAL TIME; BREAK THROUGH CURVE; CLASSICAL TRANSPORT; CONVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATIONS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY TOMOGRAPHY; FOREST SITES; FOREST SOILS; PEAK VELOCITIES; PORE WATERS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SALINE TRACER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT PARAMETERS; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TRANSPORT PROCESS;

ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; PERMITTIVITY MEASUREMENT; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TOMOGRAPHY;

TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

ARRIVAL TIME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVECTION; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLOW VELOCITY; FOREST SOIL; PARAMETERIZATION; POREWATER; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL WATER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRACER;

GERMANY; JULICH; NORTH RHINE-WESTPHALIA;

EID: 77955442137     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2009.0073     Document Type: Article

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