A pedotransfer function for predicting solute dispersivity: Model testing and upscaling

Scaling Methods in Soil Physics

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 89-96

  Perfect, E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

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