Estimation of soil hydraulic properties and their uncertainty: Comparison between laboratory and field experiment

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 3426-3435

  Kumar, S ^a   Sekhar, M ^a   Reddy, D V ^b   Mohan Kumar, M S ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b NATIONAL GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

GLUE; Inverse modelling; Laboratory and field experiment; Soil hydraulic properties

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATED PARAMETER; EVAPORATION METHOD; FIELD DATA; FIELD EXPERIMENT; ILL POSED; INVERSE MODELLING; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LOAMY SAND; MEASURED DATA; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PRESSURE HEADS; ROOT MEAN SQUARE ERRORS; SATURATED SOILS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PARAMETERS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL LAYER; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL MOISTURE MODEL; SOIL TYPES; TWO LAYERS; UNCERTAINTY ESTIMATES; UNSATURATED ZONE;

EXPERIMENTS; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GLUES; GLUING; HYDRAULICS; INVERSE PROBLEMS; LABORATORIES; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SOIL MOISTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA INVERSION; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; INVERSE PROBLEM; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958572997     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.7775     Document Type: Article

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