Abstract
When solving water flow in a soil using Darcy-Richards' equation, information about the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity of the soil is necessary. However, direct measurement of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity is time consuming and expensive. Therefore, instantaneous profile methods and/or models to estimate the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity from water retention data are preferable. However, results of the instantaneous profile methods are often influenced by how precise we express the relation of measured volume wetness with time and the relation of measured hydraulic heads with soil depth. Here, we introduce three regression functions for expressing these relationships. In addition, an empirical model relating the measured unsaturated hydraulic conductivity with volume wetness was also developed [...]
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