Conductivity and hydraulic nonequilibrium across drainage and infiltration fronts

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Weller, Ulrich ^a   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY LOAM SOILS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXTERNAL FORCING; INFILTRATION RATE; INVERSE SOLUTION; MATRIC POTENTIAL; MODELING CONCEPTS; MULTI-STEP; MULTI-STEP OUTFLOW EXPERIMENTS; NON EQUILIBRIUM; NON-EQUILIBRIUM DYNAMICS; NON-EQUILIBRIUM EFFECTS; RICHARDS' EQUATION; TRANSIENT CONDITIONS; UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; VOLUMETRIC WATER CONTENT;

EXPERIMENTS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOILS;

INFILTRATION;

CLAY LOAM; DRAINAGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDS EQUATION; SOIL WATER; VOLUME; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84869447111     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0134     Document Type: Article

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