Extended multistep outflow method for the accurate determination of soil hydraulic properties near water saturation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Durner, W ^a   Iden, S C ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE PROCESS; ESTIMATION UNCERTAINTIES; FAST METHODS; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INVERSE MODELING; LOW SENSITIVITY; MULTI-STEP; MULTI-STEP OUTFLOW EXPERIMENTS; PORE SYSTEM; PRESSURE HEADS; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL SAMPLE; SYNTHETIC AND REAL DATA; UNSATURATED HYDRAULICS; WATER SATURATED SOILS; WATER SATURATIONS;

ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INVERSE PROBLEMS; PONDING; POROUS PLATES; SOLVENTS;

SOILS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OUTFLOW; PERCOLATION; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL COLUMN; TENSIOMETER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80052043197     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR010632     Document Type: Article

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