Simplified estimation of unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity using bulk electrical conductivity and particle size distribution

Soil Research

Volumn 51, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 23-33

  Neyshabouri, Mohammad Reza ^a   Rahmati, Mehdi ^a   Doussan, Claude ^b   Behroozinezhad, Boshra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^b UAPV   (France)

Author keywords

electrical conductivity; hydraulic conductivity; particle size distribution; scaling parameter.

Indexed keywords

COARSE-TEXTURED SOILS; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; FINE-TEXTURED SOILS; MATRIC POTENTIAL; SCALING PARAMETER; TRANSFER PROPERTIES; VAN GENUCHTEN-MUALEM MODELS; WATER RETENTION CURVE;

CORE SAMPLES; CURVE FITTING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOIL TESTING; SOILS;

GEOLOGIC MODELS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATABASE; ELECTRICAL CONDUCTIVITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDRAULIC PROPERTY; MATRIC POTENTIAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOIL TEXTURE; WATER CONTENT;

EID: 84875427894     PISSN: 1838675X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/SR12158     Document Type: Article

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