Analysis of the agreement of soil hydraulic properties obtained from multistep-outflow and evaporation methods

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1080-1091

  Schelle, H ^a   Iden, S C ^a   Peters, A ^b   Durner, W ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EVAPORATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL METHODS; FLOW PREDICTION; HYDRAULIC FUNCTIONS; MEASUREMENT RANGE; MOISTURE RANGE; PARAMETRIC MODELS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL HYDRAULICS; SOIL TYPES; UNSATURATED SOIL; WATER FLOWS; WATER RETENTION;

ERRORS; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

SOILS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; EVAPORATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; NUMERICAL MODEL; OUTFLOW; SOLUTE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 79960190275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2010.0050     Document Type: Article

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