Quantifying nonisothermal subsurface soil water evaporation

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Deol, Pukhraj ^a   Heitman, Josh ^a   Amoozegar, Aziz ^a   Ren, Tusheng ^b   Horton, Robert ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHINA AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED LABORATORIES; DRY SURFACES; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EVAPORATION RATE; HEAT PULSE; HYDROLOGIC CYCLES; MASS BALANCE; MASS BALANCE ESTIMATES; NEAR-SURFACE; NONISOTHERMAL; PROFILE DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTIFICATION OF ENERGIES; RADIATION BOUNDARY CONDITION; SENSIBLE HEAT; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL WATER EVAPORATION; SUBSURFACE SOIL; TEST MODELS; VAPOR FLUXES;

DRYING; EVAPORATION; SOIL MOISTURE; VAPORS;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DIFFUSIVITY; ENERGY; ESTIMATION METHOD; EVAPORATION; MASS BALANCE; MASS TRANSFER; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL WATER; SUBSURFACE FLOW; VAPORIZATION;

EID: 84868628533     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012WR012516     Document Type: Article

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