Improving hydraulic conductivity estimates from minidisk infiltrometer measurements for soils with wide pore-size distributions

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 804-811

  Dohnal, Michal ^a   Dusek, Jaromir ^a   Vogel, Tomas ^a  

^a CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION FORMULAE; FINE-TEXTURED SOILS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INFILTRATION PROCESS; INFILTROMETERS; OBJECTIVE FUNCTIONS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SEMI-EMPIRICAL APPROACH; SOIL HYDRAULICS; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL WATER MOVEMENT; SYNTHETIC DATA; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NUMERICAL MODELING;

DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PORE SIZE; SOIL MOISTURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UNDERWATER SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

CAMBISOL; CAPILLARITY; DATA SET; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; INFILTROMETER; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

EID: 77956813856     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2009.0099     Document Type: Article

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