Prediction of water retention curves for dry soils from an established pedotransfer function: Evaluation of the Webb model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Schneider, M ^a   Goss, K U ^a,b  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BULK DENSITY; DRY CONDITION; DRY REGION; DRY SOIL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LINEAR FUNCTIONS; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS; ROSETTA; SMOOTH TRANSITIONS; TEXTURE DATA; WATER RETENTION; WATER RETENTION CURVE; WILTING POINT;

FORECASTING; FUNCTION EVALUATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

BULK DENSITY; DATA SET; HUMIDITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; PREDICTION; SATURATION; SOIL WATER; WATER CONTENT; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 84862167430     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011049     Document Type: Article

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