Infiltration and drainage processes in multi-layered coarse soils

Canadian Journal of Soil Science

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 169-183

  Huang, Mingbin ^a,b   Barbour, Lee S ^a   Elshorbagy, Amin ^a   Zettl, Julie D ^a   Si, Bing Cheng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Drainage; Hysteresis; Infiltration; Layered soils; Pedotransfer function

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; HYSTERESIS; INFILTRATION; MODEL VALIDATION; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SOIL DRAINAGE; SOIL PROFILE; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER CONTENT; WETTING;

EID: 79959637514     PISSN: 00084271     EISSN: 19181841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4141/cjss09118     Document Type: Article

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