ABSTRACT

Designed for undergraduate and graduate students, this book covers important soil physical properties, critical physical processes involving energy and mass transport, movement and retention of water and solutes through soil profile, soil temperature regimes and aeration, and plant-water relations. It includes new concepts and numerical examples fo

chapter 1|14 pages

Introduction to Soil Physics

chapter 2|10 pages

Units and Dimensions

chapter 4|14 pages

Sampling Concepts and Designs

chapter 6|10 pages

Fundamentals of Hydrology

chapter 7|18 pages

Properties of Water

chapter 8|38 pages

Water in the Vadose Zone

chapter 9|30 pages

Flow through the Vadose Zone

chapter 10|24 pages

Water Infiltration into the Vadose Zone

chapter 11|24 pages

Energy Flow through the Vadose Zone

chapter 12|20 pages

Evaporation from Soil

chapter 13|34 pages

Root Water Uptake

chapter 14|10 pages

Airflow through the Vadose Zone

chapter 15|38 pages

Chemical Transport through the Vadose Zone

chapter 17|57 pages

Flow through the Vadose Zone Using RZWQM