Direct measurement of unsaturated conductivity including hydraulic nonequilibrium and hysteresis

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 654-661

  Weller, Ulrich ^a   Ippisch, Olaf ^b   Köhne, Max ^a   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FLUID CONFIGURATION; GEOMETRIC MODELS; HOMOGENEOUS MATERIALS; INVERSE OPTIMIZATION; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MULTI-STEP; NON EQUILIBRIUM; PORE SCALE; PORE SPACE; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL BEHAVIOR; TEMPORAL DYNAMICS; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; TRANSIENT FLOW CONDITIONS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; WATER POTENTIAL; WATER RETENTION;

FORESTRY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYSTERESIS; SOIL MOISTURE;

EXPERIMENTS;

EQUILIBRIUM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEOLOGY; HYSTERESIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPTIMIZATION; OUTFLOW; PORE SPACE; SOIL DRAINAGE; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER POTENTIAL; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRANSIENT FLOW; UNSATURATED FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 79960123608     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0074     Document Type: Article

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