Water infiltration into a frozen soil with simultaneous melting of the frozen layer

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Watanabe, Kunio ^a   Kito, Tetsuya ^a   Dun, Shuhui ^b   Wu, Joan Q ^b   Cory Greer, R ^c   Flury, Markus ^b  

^a MIE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c USDA NRCS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FROZEN SOILS; ICE; SILT; SOIL MOISTURE; THERMOCOUPLES; WATER CONTENT;

COLUMN EXPERIMENTS; FROZEN LAYER; ICE CONTENT; INFILTRATION FRONTS; INITIAL SOILS; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NUTRIENTS; SOIL WATER; SOIL WATER CONTENT; WATER INFILTRATION;

INFILTRATION;

DATA SET; FROZEN GROUND; INFILTRATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MELTING; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL COLUMN; SOIL CONSERVATION; SOIL EROSION; SOIL NUTRIENT; SOIL WATER; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84874441295     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0188     Document Type: Article

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