Dependence of unfrozen water content in unsaturated frozen clay soil on initial soil moisture content

Infiltration in cracking clay soils as affected by initial soil moisture content

Soil Moisture Content

The assessment of soil moisture content and surface roughness from remotely sensed data is of primary importance for improving agricultural techniques of conservation farming such as yield forecasts, scheduling irrigations, fertilization. SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) remotely sensed data may provide a powerful tool for indirectly retrieving these agricultural surface parameters over large are...

Assessing Relation of Soil Hydrophobicity and Soil Water Content and Determining Threshold Moisture of Organic Soil Samples

Soil water content is the most effective factor associated with the hydrophobic and hydrophilic changes in a soil. Water repellency in soils, is not a permanent feature; it can be reached in the dry season and reduced or eliminated in the wet season It can be said that in terms of moisture, there is a critical region that is defined as the threshold moisture content, where in lower moisture, th...

Soil clay content underlies prion infection odds

Environmental factors-especially soil properties-have been suggested as potentially important in the transmission of infectious prion diseases. Because binding to montmorillonite (an aluminosilicate clay mineral) or clay-enriched soils had been shown to enhance experimental prion transmissibility, we hypothesized that prion transmission among mule deer might also be enhanced in ranges with rela...

A scheme for calculating soil moisture content

A scheme for calculating soil moisture content by using routine weather data K. Z. Shang, S. G. Wang, Y. X. Ma, Z. J. Zhou, J. Y. Wang, H. L. Liu, and Y. Q. Wang Gansu Key Laboratory of Arid Climatic Change and Reducing Disaster, College of Atmospheric Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, P.R. China National Meteorological Center, CMA, Beijing 100081, P.R. China Chinese Academy of Mete...