Estimation of saturated hydraulic conductivity from ring infiltrometer test taking into account the surface moisture stain extension

Double-ring and Tension Infiltrometer Measurements of Hydraulic Conductivity and Mobile Soil Regions1

1. Article submitted on Sept./2010 and accepted for publishing on Aug./2011 (n° PAT 11376/ DOI: 10.5216/pat.v41i3.11376). 2. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Soil Physics, Halle, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]. 3. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]. 4. Martin-Luther...

Arti fi cial Neural Network Estimation of Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity

cial neural networks have become a common tool for modeling complex “input–output” dependencies. In the past, neural network models have been used as a special class of pedotransfer functions (PTFs) using feed-forward back propagation or radial basis functions to approximate any continuous (nonlinear) function (Hecht-Nielsen, 1990; Pachepsky et al., 1996; Schaap and Bouten, 1996; Minasny and Mc...

Variation in Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity : The Effect of Antecedent Moisture Content

Characterization of field saturated hydraulic conductivity

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract In the context of studies aiming at the estimation of effective parameters for unsaturated zone modelling, this work tackles the problem of experimental data quality, considering the large collection of data gathered at an experimental sit...

ring size dependence of field saturated hydraulic conductivity measurements in a clay loam soil

field saturated hydraulic conductivity (kfs) is one of the most important soil properties that considerably contribute to soil quality. however, specifically in the structured soils, the measurement of kfs is difficult and time-consuming. therefore, verifying the simple and fast methods for kfs measurement is needed for effective soil monitoring. this study was conducted to investigate the effe...