Water storage change estimation from in situ shrinkage measurements of clay soils

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 1933-1949

  Te Brake, B ^a   Van Der Ploeg, M J ^a   De Rooij, G H ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; GEOMETRY FACTORS; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; ISOTROPIC SHRINKAGE; LINEAR RELATION; MEASUREMENT SCALE; SHRINKAGE MEASUREMENTS; SOIL WATER STORAGE;

DROUGHT; SENSORS; SHRINKAGE; SOIL MOISTURE;

AGGREGATES;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLAY SOIL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMETRY; MEASUREMENT METHOD; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER; VOLUME; WATER STORAGE;

EID: 84879057661     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-17-1933-2013     Document Type: Article

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