soil hydraulic properties
Novel evaporation experiment to determine soil hydraulic properties
... fundamental difficulties with this approach, however: (i) The most severe issue are the tensiometers required for measur- ing the matric potential. This again sets a lower limit for the applicable matric potential. While ...
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Assessing the influence of the rhizosphere on soil hydraulic properties using X ray computed tomography and numerical modelling
... bulk soil. For example, rhizosphere soil has been shown to contain greater numbers of the largest pore sizes (Whalley et ...bulk soil, with denitrification being more rapid (Tan, 2000). The ...
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Cheese whey as an amendment to disturbed lands: Effects on soil hydraulic properties
... While the effects of whey on soil physical and chemical properties have been studied (Jones et al. 1994, Robbins and Lehrsch 1992), its effects on soil hydraulic properties such as infil[r] ...
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Variation of soil hydraulic properties with alpine grassland degradation in the eastern Tibetan Plateau
... Alpine mountainous regions are widely distributed around the world, such as the Rocky Mountains in North America, the Andean mountain range in South America, the Alps in Europe, Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa, the ...
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Developing a reliable strategy to infer the effective soil hydraulic properties from field evaporation experiments for agro hydrological models
... Figure 6: Soil water contents measured and simulated using the deduced soil.. hydraulic properties down the soil profile in the calibration experiment.[r] ...
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A global data set of soil hydraulic properties and sub-grid variability of soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity curves
... and hydraulic conductivity by considering microscopic laws for capillary pressure forces and viscous flow in porous me- dia based on a similarity assumption of the pore space struc- ture (Warrick et ...ing ...
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Mapping soil hydraulic properties using random forest based pedotransfer functions and geostatistics
... on soil hydraulic proper- ties for areas larger than plot scale is usually derived using indirect methods such as pedotransfer functions (PTFs) due to the lack of measured information on ...desired ...
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Spatial analysis of soil hydraulic properties of an alfisol in Akure, Southwestern Nigeria
... of hydraulic conductivity, soil water sorptivity and cumulative infiltration of an alfisol soil in Akure, Southwestern ...in soil physical and hydraulic properties among ...
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Quantifying soil hydraulic properties and their uncertainties by modified GLUE method
... seven soil textures (from heavy clay to sand) and they found the same condition for sand ...the soil tension was lower than -55 cm, the rate of water loss increased quickly and the surface potential ...
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IMPROVEMENT OF A SIMPLE TENSION INFILTROMETER FOR DETERMINING SOIL HYDRAULIC PROPERTIES
... experimental soil was composed of ...of Soil Survey Staff (1975) the soil was classified as loamy ...initial soil water content before the infiltration tests was ...wetted soil did not ...
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Two Fractal Regimes of the Soil Hydraulic Properties
... A fractal dimension greater than 3 can be explained in the so-called generalized (multi)fractal model [28]-[31]. This is not accounted by our model, therefore representing a limitation of it (see discussion in [32]). ...
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Relationship between hydraulic properties and plant coverage of the closed-landfill soils in Piacenza (Po Valley, Italy)
... describe soil hydrologic be- haviour are based on non-linear relationships between the volumetric water content in the soil, θ, the suction applied by the soil, h, and the hydraulic ...
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Prospects for improving perennial legume persistence in mixed grazed pastures of south eastern Australia, with particular reference to white clover
... these soil constraints would alleviate periodic moisture stress by: (1) increased water availability through improved infiltration and soil hydraulic properties; (2) increased root growth to ...
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Picturing and modeling catchments by representative hillslopes
... of soil hydraulic properties and preferential flow paths in conjunction with process non-linearity are additional ar- guments against the identifiability of representative hillslope models (Beven and ...
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Effect of treated wastewater on soil chemical and physical properties in an arid region
... the soil irrigated with wastewater effluent and groundwater were almost ...texture soil because high ESP had no effect on the soil hydraulic ...saturated hydraulic conductivity more ...
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Advances in Information Provision from Wireless Sensor Networks for Irrigated Crops
... of soil moisture at targeted positions providing the site-specific information re- quired for precision irrigation scheduling and efficient freshwater manage- ...spatio-temporal soil water status and crop ...
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New pedotransfer function (“CRC”) for the prediction of unsaturated soil hydraulic conductivity using soil water retention data
... on soil texture and provide soil hydraulic ...of hydraulic conduc- tivity from water retention ...important soil hydraulic properties which do not express themselves in ...
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Inverse modelling in estimating soil hydraulic functions: a Genetic Algorithm approach
... the soil hydraulic properties of the study ...hypothetical soil profile and soil core samples in the ...the soil hydraulic functions in the unsaturated ...of soil ...
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Soil micromorphology use for modeling of a non equilibrium water and solute movement
... varying soil micromorphology on soil hydraulic prop- erties and consequently on water flow and herbicide (chlorotoluron) transport observed in the field on three soil types (Haplic Luvisol, ...
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Numerical Study of Macropore Impact on Ponded Infiltration in Clay Soils
... Estimation of water infiltration in heavy soils and their subsequent water saturation is very im- portant for assessment of slope stability of newly designed or existing reclaimed landfills. Usually applied methods and ...
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