Virtual soils: Moisture measurements and their interpretation by inverse modeling

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Schelle, Henrike ^a,d   Durner, Wolfgang ^a   Schlüter, Steffen ^a,b   Vogel, Hans Jörg ^b   Vanderborght, Jan ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^c FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^d CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA; HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH; ONE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATIONS; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SPATIAL HETEROGENEITY; STRUCTURAL COMPLEXITY; TWO-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS;

INVERSE PROBLEMS; MEASUREMENTS; MOISTURE DETERMINATION; POROUS MATERIALS; TWO DIMENSIONAL; VIRTUAL REALITY;

SOILS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; HYDROLOGICAL MODELING; MOISTURE CONTENT; POROUS MEDIUM; SIMULATION; SOIL MOISTURE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; WATER BUDGET;

EID: 84881598417     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0168     Document Type: Article

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