Predicting soil moisture characteristic curves from continuous particle-size distribution data

Pedosphere

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 70-80

  Mohammadi, M H ^a   Meskini Vishkaee, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZANJAN   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fine textured soils; Modeling; Residual water content; Soil hydraulic properties; Van Genuchten model

Indexed keywords

OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PREDICTION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TEXTURE; SUCTION; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84871680411     PISSN: 10020160     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1002-0160(12)60081-2     Document Type: Article

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