Investigation of spatial and temporal variability of saturated soil hydraulic conductivity at the field-scale

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 135, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-40

  Rienzner, Michele ^a   Gandolfi, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Field measurements; Guelph permeameter; Hydraulic conductivity; Temporal variability; Tension infiltrometer

Indexed keywords

FIELD MEASUREMENT; GUELPH PERMEAMETER; MEAN AND STANDARD DEVIATIONS; PEDOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; SATURATED SOIL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITIES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TENSION INFILTROMETERS;

CROPS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

SOILS;

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FALLOW; FIELD; FLOW MODELING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; INFILTROMETER; MACROPORE; MAIZE; MODEL VALIDATION; PEDOLOGY; PERMEAMETER; SATURATED MEDIUM; SOIL TEXTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; WATER FLOW;

EID: 84884957170     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2013.08.012     Document Type: Article

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