The concept of field capacity revisited: Defining intrinsic static and dynamic criteria for soil internal drainage dynamics

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 4787-4802

  Assouline, Shmuel ^a   Or, Dani ^b  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

drainage; field capacity

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; SOIL MOISTURE;

AVAILABLE SOIL WATERS; FIELD CAPACITY; HYDRATION STATE; INTRINSIC CHARACTERISTICS; MATRIC POTENTIAL; SOIL TYPES; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

DYNAMICS;

EID: 84901889123     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015475     Document Type: Article

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