Applying HYDRUS to Flow in a Sodic Clay Soil with Solution Composition–Dependent Hydraulic Conductivity

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Reading, Lucy P ^a,b   Baumgartl, Thomas ^a,b   Bristow, Keith L ^c   Lockington, David A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT   (Australia)

^c University of Melbourne   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IRRIGATION; LEACHING; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

CHEMICAL CHANGE; GENERAL TRENDS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; SIMULATED RESULTS; SOIL CHEMISTRY; SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES; SOIL TREATMENTS; SOLUTION COMPOSITION;

SOILS;

CLAY SOIL; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; IRRIGATION; LEACHING; LOAM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERMEABILITY; RESEARCH WORK; SODIC SOIL; SOIL AMENDMENT; SOIL MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84949317825     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2011.0137     Document Type: Article

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