Determining hydraulic conductivity for air-filled porosity in an unsaturated frozen soil by the multistep outflow method

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Zhao, Ying ^a,b   Nishimura, Taku ^a   Hill, Robert ^c   Miyazaki, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTRATION; POROSITY; SNOW MELTING SYSTEMS;

AIR-FILLED POROSITIES; APPARENT IMPEDANCE; BLOCKING EFFECT; COLD REGIONS; H-BASED; ICE CRYSTALS; IMPEDANCE PARAMETERS; LIMITED DATA; MULTISTEPS; SNOW MELT;

FROZEN SOILS;

DATA SET; FROZEN GROUND; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; ICE CRYSTAL; INFILTRATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; POROSITY; SNOWMELT; VADOSE ZONE; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84874413384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0061     Document Type: Article

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