simultaneous scaling of soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions

Measurement Scale Effect on Prediction of Soil Water Retention Curve and Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity

Soil water retention curve (SWRC) and saturated hydraulic conductivity (SHC) are key hydraulic properties for unsaturated zone hydrology and groundwater. In particular, SWRC provides useful information on entry pore-size distribution, and SHC is required for flow and transport modeling in the hydrologic cycle. Not only the SWRC and SHC measurements are time-consuming, but also scale dependent. ...

scaling of soil hydraulic conductivity function using effective capillary drive

abstract to estimate spatial variability of soil hydraulic functions, scaling methods were developed and have been widely used. among these functions, physically based methods have been found more desirable because of possibility of estimating soil hydraulic functions from soil physical properties. in this paper, a new and physically based method has been described for scaling soil hydraulic co...

Multiscale Pedotransfer Functions for Soil Water Retention

Soil hydraulic properties are needed in globaland regionalscale circulation models for hydrologic and climate forecasting. They are also necessary in pointand nonpoint-source contaminant transport models. Prediction accuracy of these models is highly dependent on the quality of the model parameters. Collecting the required soil hydraulic parameters by direct measurement at any model grid scale ...

An improved simulation of void structure, water retention and hydraulic conductivity in soil with the Pore-Cor three-dimensional network

We present a new method of characterizing the void structures of soils from water retention curves as the primary source of data. The method avoids the problems of other current approaches, which use smoothing curves and can miss the subtleties of soil structure, and usually ignore the shielding of large pores by the small connecting throats surrounding them. In the new method, software we have...

Determination of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity by internal drainage assuming a uniform soil water profile

Estimating the Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity of Soil Using Gene Expression Programming Method and Comparing It with the Pedotransfer Functions

Saturated hydraulic conductivity of soil is an important physical property of soil that affects water movement in soil, Since the measurement of saturated hydraulic conductivity by direct methods in the field or in the laboratory is hard, time-consuming and costly, the indirect methods are being used.The aim of this study is to estimate the saturated hydraulic conductivity from other soil prope...