Estimation of soil water retention curve using some agrophysical and Voronins empirical dependence
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Agrophysical Research Institute (APRI), Grazhdansky Prospect, 14, 195220 Saint-Petersburg, Russia
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Leibniz Centre of Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Landscape System Analysis, Eberswalder 84, 15374 Muencheberg, Germany
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Leibniz Centre of Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Institute of Soil Landscape Research, Eberswalder 84, 15374 Muencheberg, Germany
Int. Agrophys. 2010, 24(4): 381-387
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An original method to estimate the parameters of the soil water retention curve using (i) the standardized agrophysical characteristics (wilting point, hydroscopic property, particle density and bulk density) as an input dataset and (ii) an empirical dependence by Voronin is proposed. This method allows the creation of an alternative pedotransfer function.