Improvement of water movement in an undulating sandy soil prone to water repellency

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 262-269

  Oostindie, Klaas ^a   Dekker, Louis W ^a   Wesseling, Jan G ^a   Ritsema, Coen J ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMATION PROGRAMS; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; RAIN EVENTS; SANDY SOILS; SOIL CORES; SOIL WATER CONTENT; SOIL WATER REPELLENCY; SURFACTANT APPLICATIONS; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER FLOWS; WATER MOVEMENTS; WATER REPELLENCY;

ANIMATION; GROUNDWATER FLOW; HYDRAULICS; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE ACTIVE AGENTS; WETTING;

WATER CONTENT;

HYDROPHOBICITY; INFILTRATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SANDY SOIL; SOIL WATER; SURFACTANT; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER CONTENT; WATER FLOW; WETTING;

EID: 79952164978     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0051     Document Type: Article

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