Water potential in nonrigid unsaturated soil-water medium

Characterizing Nonrigid Aggregated Soil-Water Medium Using its Shrinkage Curve

The properties of the soil-water medium are presented in the literature independent of its internal organization and operation. The objective of this study is to develop and test a conceptual model that used a continuously measured shrinkage curve (Se) to describe the functional organization of the soil-water medium. In this model, two functional porosities (micro and macro) are delineated and ...

Sensitivity Analysis of Hydraulic Parameters in the Simulation of Unsaturated Soil Water Dynamics

Soil water content is one of the most important parameters for estimating irrigation frequency and providing the plant’s water requirement. Since measurement of soil water content is both expensive and time consuming, water movement models are used to estimate these values. In this study, LEACHW model was used to estimate soil water content for two “dry” (20-29 Aug) and “wet” (1-6 Jul) periods ...

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

The dependence of water potential in shoots of Picea abies on air and soil water status

Where there is sucient water storage in the soil the water potential …Wx† in shoots of Norway spruce [Picea abies (L.) Karst.] is strongly governed by the vapour pressure de®cit of the atmosphere, while the mean minimum values of Wx usually do not drop below ÿ1:5 MPa under meteorological conditions in Estonia. If the base water potential …Wb† is above ÿ0:62 MPa, the principal factor causing wa...

An evolutionary approach to modelling the soil-water characteristic curve in unsaturated soils

In this paper a new approach is presented based on evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) for modelling of soil–water characteristic curve in unsaturated soils. EPR is an evolutionary data mining technique that generates a transparent and structured representation of the behaviour of a system directly from data. This method can operate on large quantities of data in order to capture nonlinear...