Evaluating the effect of using artificial pore water on the quality of laboratory hydraulic conductivity measurements of peat

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 2629-2640

  Kettridge, Nicholas ^a   Binley, Andrew ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Flocculation; Hydraulic conductivity; Peat; Pore dilation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL PORE WATER; CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENTS; CONSTANT HEAD; CONSTRICTION EFFECTS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; HUMIC ACID; IONIC COMPOSITION; IONIC CONCENTRATIONS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; PEAT SAMPLES; PERMEAMETER TEST; PORE DILATION; PORE FLUIDS; PORE WATERS; PORE-WATER CHEMISTRY; REVERSIBLE PROCESS; SPHAGNUM PEAT; STUDY SITES;

DEIONIZED WATER; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; FLOCCULATION; FLUIDS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ORGANIC ACIDS; PEAT; WATER;

LEAKAGE (FLUID);

COMPACTION; DILATION; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FLOCCULATION; HUMIC ACID; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; PEAT; POREWATER; SOIL WATER; TESTING METHOD;

SPHAGNUM;

EID: 77955642204     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7693     Document Type: Article

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