Field measurement of soil surface hydraulic properties by disc and ring infiltrometers: A review and recent developments

R Angulo-Jaramillo, JP Vandervaere, S Roulier… - Soil and tillage …, 2000 - Elsevier
Soil management influences physical properties and mainly the soil hydraulic functions.
Their measurement becomes one of the research preferences in this branch of applied soil …

A review of soil moisture dynamics: from rainfall infiltration to ecosystem response

E Daly, A Porporato - Environmental engineering science, 2005 - liebertpub.com
In this paper we briefly review some aspects of the soil water balance, highlighting the
possible connections and feedbacks among the various processes as well as pointing out …

[图书][B] Soil physics companion

AW Warrick - 2001 - taylorfrancis.com
An authoritative reference on soil physics, Soil Physics Companion is lavishly illustrated with
graphs, charts, line drawings, and equations. The book provides a valuable source of …

Parameter equivalence for the Brooks‐Corey and van Genuchten soil characteristics: Preserving the effective capillary drive

HJ Morel‐Seytoux, PD Meyer… - Water Resources …, 1996 - Wiley Online Library
This paper provides a simple way to convert Brooks‐Corey (BC) parameters to van
Genuchten (vG) parameters and vice versa, for use primarily in situations where saturated …

[图书][B] Soil physics: An introduction

MK Shukla - 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Designed for undergraduate and graduate students interested in learning basic soil physics
and its application to environment, soil health, water quality and productivity, this book …

Transient flow from tension infiltrometers I. The two‐parameter equation

JP Vandervaere, M Vauclin… - Soil Science Society of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
Tension disk infiltrometer experiments are generally conducted until apparent steady state is
reached because most of the methods of analysis are based on Wooding's solution for …

Estimating hydraulic conductivity of crusted soils using disc infiltrometers and minitensiometers

JP Vandervaere, C Peugeot, M Vauclin, RA Jaramillo… - Journal of …, 1997 - Elsevier
Although soil crusting has long been recognized as a crucial runoff factor in the Sahel, very
few field methods have been developed for the measurement of the crust hydraulic …

Transient flow from tension infiltrometers II. Four methods to determine sorptivity and conductivity

JP Vandervaere, M Vauclin… - Soil Science Society of …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
In Vandervaere et al.(2000) it was shown that the transient regime of axisymmetric infiltration
can be described by a two‐term equation with one term proportional to the square root of …

Models for disc infiltrometers

AW Warrick - Water Resources Research, 1992 - Wiley Online Library
Disc infiltrometers are popular devices for determining in situ hydraulic properties of
unsaturated soils. This paper compares alternative solutions of Richards' equation for both …

Improving hydraulic conductivity estimates from minidisk infiltrometer measurements for soils with wide pore‐size distributions

M Dohnal, J Dusek, T Vogel - Soil Science Society of America …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Disk infiltrometers are established as standard devices for measuring soil surface hydraulic
properties. This study explored the validity of a semiempirical approach that is used to obtain …