Air Permeability

Methods of Soil Analysis, Part 4: Physical Methods

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 1141-1158

  Ball, Bruce C ^a   Schjønning, Per ^b  

^a SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DANISH INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic method; Anisotropy; Buried probe and well techniques; Field methods; Hydraulic conductivity prediction; Laboratory methods; Porosity data; Soil air content; Soil air permeability; Soil water content

Indexed keywords

EID: 85125299824     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.2136/sssabookser5.4.c46     Document Type: Chapter

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