Point pedotransfer functions for estimating soil water retention curve

International Agrophysics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-251

  Ghanbarian Alavijeh, B ^a,b   Millan H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEHRAN   (Iran)

^b WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Granma   (Cuba)

Author keywords

Field capacity; Permanent wilting point; Point pedotransfer functions; Soil water retention curve

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; FIELD CAPACITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARTICLE SIZE; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL TEXTURE; SOIL WATER; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 79951498923     PISSN: 02368722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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