High-resolution ground-penetrating radar monitoring of soil moisture dynamics: Field results, interpretation, and comparison with unsaturated flow model

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Steelman, Colby M ^a,b   Endres, Anthony L ^b   Jones, Jon P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

900 MHZ; AIR-SOIL INTERFACE; ANNUAL CYCLE; DATA SERIES; DATA SETS; DEEP DRAINAGE; DRY SOIL CONDITIONS; FIELD STUDIES; FREEZING/THAWING PROCESS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; GROUND PENETRATING RADARS; GROUND WAVES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH RESOLUTION; HYDRUS-1D; LOW RESOLUTION; MODEL CALIBRATION; MOISTURE CONDITIONS; OVERALL QUALITY; SHALLOW SUBSURFACE; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS; SOIL CONDITIONS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE DYNAMICS; SOIL MOISTURE PROFILES; SOIL SAMPLE; TEMPORAL SAMPLING; TRANSIENT EVENTS; UNSATURATED FLOWS; VADOSE ZONE; VARIABLY SATURATED; WATER CONTENT ESTIMATES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMICS; ESTIMATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; GROUNDWATER; INFILTRATION; MOISTURE METERS; SOIL MOISTURE; STRATIGRAPHY; WATER SUPPLY;

SOIL SURVEYS;

DATA SET; FLOW MODELING; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; INFILTRATION; MOISTURE CONTENT; MONITORING; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RESOLUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; VADOSE ZONE; WATER CONTENT; WAVE VELOCITY;

EID: 84866995178     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011414     Document Type: Article

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