Determining soil hydraulic properties and their field variability from simpler measurements

Agricultural Drainage

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1206-1233

  Ahuja, L R ^a   Rawls, Walter J ^b   Nielsen, Donald R ^c   Williams, R D ^d  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d LANGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Infiltration; macropore; redistribution; saturated hydraulic conductivity; soil hydraulic property; soil matrix; spatial variability; tillage; unsaturated hydraulic conductivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 85103042100     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780891182306.ch38     Document Type: Chapter

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