Stochastic modeling of salt accumulation in the root zone due to capillary flux from brackish groundwater

Water Resources Research

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Shah, S H H ^a   Vervoort, R W ^b   Suweis, S ^c   Guswa, A J ^d   Rinaldo, A ^c,e   Van Der Zee, S E A T M ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c EPFL   (Switzerland)

^d SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL APPROXIMATION; BRACKISH GROUND WATER; DAILY RAINFALL; DISSOLVED SALT; LEACHING RATES; MASS BALANCE EQUATIONS; ROOT ZONE; SALT BALANCES; SALT CONCENTRATION; SALT TRANSPORT; SEMIARID AREA; SHALLOW GROUNDWATER; STOCHASTIC MODELING; WATER FLOWS; WATER FLUX; WATER SATURATIONS;

CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY FLOW; CLIMATOLOGY; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER; LEACHING; RAIN; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SALT REMOVAL; WATER QUALITY; WATER SUPPLY;

LEAD REMOVAL (WATER TREATMENT);

ACCUMULATION; BRACKISH WATER; CAPILLARY PRESSURE; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; GROUNDWATER RESOURCE; LEACHING; MASS BALANCE; OSMOSIS; POISSON RATIO; RAINFALL; RHIZOSPHERE; SALINITY; SALINIZATION; SALT; SEMIARID REGION; STOCHASTICITY; WATER DEPTH; WATER FLOW; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 80052545438     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010WR009790     Document Type: Article

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