75 Determining Soil Hydraulic Properties
75 Determining Soil Hydraulic Properties
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75 测定土壤水力特性
DOI:
10.1002/0470848944.hsa077b
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发表时间:
2006
影响因子:
8.2
通讯作者:
K. Lipsius
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作者:
W. Durner;K. Lipsius
Hydraulic properties are required for modeling water and solute transport in unsaturated soils. The bottleneck for the successful application of numerical simulation models lays usually in their parameter estimation requirements. Methods to determine hydraulic properties can be classified into indirect and direct approaches. Indirect methods encompass the estimation of hydraulic properties by pedotransfer functions from more easily measured soil properties, and the prediction of the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function from the water retention curve (WRC). In direct methods, observations offlow attributes from laboratory or field experiments are evaluated. This article reviews common methods to estimate the hydraulic conductivity function from the water retention characteristic and various direct measurement techniques in the laboratory and the field. We conclude with an outlook on contemporary developments in measurement techniques, stressing the key role of inverse modeling of experiments to derive optimum hydraulic properties and the importance of a future combination of noninvasive measurement techniques with inverse modeling by stochastic data fusion.