In situ determination of the soil surface crust hydraulic resistance

Journal of Hydrology

Volumn 403, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 253-260

  Touma, J ^a   Raclot, D ^a   Al Ali, Y ^a   Zante, P ^a   Hamrouni, H ^b   Dridi, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CARTHAGE   (Tunisia)

^b Direction des Sols   (Tunisia)

Author keywords

Crust resistance; Pedotransfer functions; Rain simulation; Ring infiltration

Indexed keywords

CRUST RESISTANCE; HYDRAULIC RESISTANCES; IN-SITU; IN-SITU EXPERIMENTS; INFILTRATION RATE; NUMERICAL RESULTS; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; RING INFILTRATION; SIMULATION EXPERIMENTS; SOIL CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL SURFACES; SOIL TYPES; WATER PRESSURES;

EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULICS; RAIN; SEEPAGE; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS; STREAM FLOW;

SURFACE RESISTANCE;

CRUST; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IN SITU TEST; INFILTRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; RAINFALL; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL TYPE;

EID: 79956360934     PISSN: 00221694     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2011.04.004     Document Type: Article

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