Physics of the soil medium organization part 2: pedostructure characterization through measurement and modeling of the soil moisture characteristic curves

1 Qatar Foundation, Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute, Doha, Qatar 2 Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA 3 Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA 4 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Pédologie Hydrostructurale, Bondy, France 5 Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department and Zachry Department of Civil Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA