Soil air permeability modeling and its use for predicting unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1507-1513

  Rahmati, Mehdi ^a   Neyshaboury, Mohammad Reza ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARAGHEH   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR PERMEABILITY; FORECASTING; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; SOIL MOISTURE; SOILS;

DIRECT MEASUREMENT; ITS APPLICATIONS; LABORATORY MEASUREMENTS; NON-DESTRUCTIVE MEASUREMENT; SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; SOIL AIR PERMEABILITIES; SOIL HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; UNSATURATED SOIL;

SOIL SURVEYS;

AIR PERMEABILITY; AIRFLOW; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LABORATORY METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL MODEL; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL WATER;

EID: 85007107767     PISSN: 03615995     EISSN: 14350661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/sssaj2015.12.0430     Document Type: Article

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