Predicting the Soil Moisture characteristic curve from particle size distribution with a simple conceptual model

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 594-602

  Mohammadi, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Vanclooster, Marnik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C-CURVES; CHARACTERISTIC CURVE; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DATA SETS; EMPIRICAL COEFFICIENTS; HIGH SURFACE ENERGY; HP MODEL; INDIRECT METHODS; LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS; MODEL PERFORMANCE; NON-SPHERICAL; PACKING STATE; PREDICTION MODEL; RESIDUAL WATERS; SIZE FRACTION; SOIL TYPES; SUCTION HEAD; WATERSHED SCALE;

DESORPTION; FORECASTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BULK DENSITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; DESORPTION; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODEL TEST; MOISTURE CONTENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PACKING; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE; SUCTION; SURFACE ENERGY; WATERSHED;

EID: 79960134990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0080     Document Type: Article

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