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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1193-2018
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1193-2018
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Research article
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12 Feb 2018
Research article |
| 12 Feb 2018
Parametric soil water retention models: a critical evaluation of expressions for the full moisture range
Raneem Madi
Dept. Soil System Science, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle, Germany
Gerrit Huibert Rooij
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Dept. Soil System Science, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Halle, Germany
Henrike Mielenz
Institute for Crop and Soil Science, Julius Kühn-Institut – JKI, Braunschweig, Germany
Juliane Mai
Dept. Computational Hydrosystems, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Leipzig, Germany
currently at: Dept. Civil & Environmental Engineering, Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
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- A comparison of methods to estimate groundwater recharge from bare soil based on data observed by a large‐scale lysimeter Z. Zhang et al. 10.1002/hyp.13769
- A New Principle for Measuring the Average Relative Humidity in Large Volumes of Non-Homogenous Gas . Lazik et al. 10.3390/s19235073
- Laboratory and Physical Prototype Tests for the Investigation of Hydraulic Hysteresis of Pyroclastic Soils M. Pirone et al. 10.3390/geosciences10080320
- Combination of Measurement Methods for a Wide-Range Description of Hydraulic Soil Properties T. Weninger et al. 10.3390/w10081021
- Determination of specific LNAPL volumes in soils having a multimodal pore-size distribution M. Alfaro Soto et al. 10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.02.077
- Pedotransfer functions for water contents at specific pressure heads of silty soils from Amazon rainforest A. Kotlar et al. 10.1016/j.geoderma.2019.114098
- Sigmoidal water retention function with improved behaviour in dry and wet soils G. de Rooij et al. 10.5194/hess-25-983-2021
- A modification to the van Genuchten model for improved prediction of relative hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils X. Kuang et al. 10.1111/ejss.13034
- Time-lapse magnetic resonance sounding measurements for numerical modeling of water flow in variably saturated media A. Legchenko et al. 10.1016/j.jappgeo.2020.103984
- The relevance of measuring saturated hydraulic conductivity: Sensitivity analysis and functional evaluation J. De Pue et al. 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2019.06.079
Latest update: 22 Mar 2023
Short summary
Water flows through soils with more difficulty when the soil is dried out. Scant rainfall in deserts may therefore result in a seemingly wet soil, but the water will often not penetrate deeply enough to replenish the groundwater. We compared the mathematical functions that describe how well different soils hold their water and found that only a few of them are realistic. The function one chooses to model the soil can have a large impact on the estimate of groundwater recharge.
Water flows through soils with more difficulty when the soil is dried out. Scant rainfall in...
