Advances in soil evaporation physics-A review

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Or, Dani ^a   Lehmann, Peter ^a   Shahraeeni, Ebrahim ^b   Shokri, Nima ^c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR BOUNDARY LAYERS; DIFFUSION-CONTROLLED; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; INTRINSIC PROPERTY; NONLINEAR INTERACTIONS; PORE-SCALE MODEL; SOIL EVAPORATIONS; SOIL WATER CHARACTERISTICS;

BOUNDARY LAYERS; DRYING; EVAPORATION; LIQUIDS; POROUS MATERIALS; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLAR ENERGY; SURFACE WATERS; VAPORS; WATER SUPPLY;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; BOUNDARY LAYER; CAPILLARITY; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EVAPORATION; EVAPOTRANSPIRATION; LITERATURE REVIEW; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SOIL TEXTURE; SOLAR POWER; WETTABILITY;

EID: 84887749557     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0163     Document Type: Article

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