Pedometrics research in the vadose zone-Review and perspectives

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Minasny, Budiman ^a   Whelan, Brett M ^a   Triantafilis, John ^b   McBratney, Alex B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODEL; COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS; DYNAMIC SPATIOTEMPORAL MODELING; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; PHYSICAL SIGNIFICANCE; PROCESS-BASED KNOWLEDGE; STATISTICAL ROBUSTNESS; VADOSE ZONE MODELING;

RESEARCH; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL SURVEYS;

GROUNDWATER;

GEOSTATISTICS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PEDOGENESIS; PREDICTION; RESEARCH WORK; SOIL TYPE; SOIL WATER; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VADOSE ZONE;

EID: 84887763578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0141     Document Type: Review

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