The AgroEcoSystem (AgES) response-function model simulates layered soil-water dynamics in semiarid Colorado: Sensitivity and calibration

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Green, Timothy R ^a   Erskine, Robert H ^a   Coleman, Michael L ^b   David, Olaf ^b   Ascough, James C ^a   Kipka, Holm ^b  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL STORAGE; DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILVER COMPOUNDS; SOIL MOISTURE; WATERSHEDS;

CALIBRATION PARAMETERS; FRACTIONAL FACTORIAL EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; OBJECT MODELING SYSTEMS; PARAMETER SENSITIVITIES; RESPONSE FUNCTION MODELS; RESPONSE FUNCTIONS; SHUFFLED COMPLEX EVOLUTION; SOIL WATER DYNAMICS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; CALIBRATION; EVAPORATION; INFILTRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; RICHARDS EQUATION; SEMIARID REGION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOIL WATER; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84939524107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2014.09.0119     Document Type: Article

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