Estimating the water retention curve from soil properties: Comparison of linear, nonlinear and concomitant variable methods

Soil and Tillage Research

Volumn 79, Issue 2 SPEC.ISS., 2004, Pages 145-152

  Rajkai, Kálmán ^a   Kabos, Sándor ^a   Van Genuchten, M Th ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

Author keywords

Pedotransfer functions; Soil quality; Soil water retention function; Unsaturated flow

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; WATER;

INTEGRATED INDICES; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTIONS (PTF); SOIL QUALITY; SOIL-WATER RETENTION CURVE (SWRC);

SOILS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; PEDOTRANSFER FUNCTION; SOIL WATER; UNSATURATED FLOW; WATER RETENTION;

EID: 9344226147     PISSN: 01671987     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.still.2004.07.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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