Quantitative relationships between soil macropore characteristics and preferential flow and transport

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1929-1937

  Luo, Lifang ^a,b   Lin, Henry ^c   Schmidt, John ^d  

^a U S SALINITY LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CONVECTION-DISPERSION EQUATIONS; DISPERSIVITY; EQUILIBRIUM MODELS; FLOW AND TRANSPORT; HYDRAULIC RADIUS; K-VALUES; LENGTH DENSITY; MACRO PORES; MACRO-POROSITY; NATURAL LOGARITHMS; NETWORK DENSITY; NODE DENSITY; NONEQUILIBRIUM MODEL; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SATURATED CONDITIONS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL HORIZON; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL STRUCTURE; SOIL TYPES; STRUCTURED SOIL; TWO-REGION MODELS; X-RAY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

AGRICULTURE; ALGEBRA; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LAND USE; SOILS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

EARTHWORM; MACROPORE; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL STRUCTURE; TOMOGRAPHY; TORTUOSITY;

EID: 78249253356     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2010.0062     Document Type: Article

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