The configuration of water on rough natural surfaces: Implications for understanding air-water interfacial area, film thickness, and imaging resolution

Water Resources Research

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 4765-4774

  Kibbey, Tohren C G ^a  

^a University of Oklahoma   (United States)

Author keywords

capillary pressure; interfacial area; surface roughness; unsaturated zone

Indexed keywords

AIR; CAPILLARITY; CAPILLARY TUBES; FILM THICKNESS; POROUS MATERIALS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

AIR WATER INTERFACES; AIR-WATER INTERFACIAL AREAS; COMPUTED MICROTOMOGRAPHY; INTERFACIAL AREAS; MACROSCOPIC SURFACES; MICROSCOPIC SURFACE; UNSATURATED POROUS MEDIA; UNSATURATED ZONE;

PHASE INTERFACES;

EID: 84880936081     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/wrcr.20383     Document Type: Article

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