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Estimation of Regional Effective Soil Hydraulic Parameters by Inverse Modeling

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Water Flow and Solute Transport in Soils

Part of the book series: Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences ((AGRICULTURAL,volume 20))

Abstract

Many environmental problems are manifest at the regional scale. To solve these problems it is necessary to have a proper description of the hydrological processes occurring at such scales. On the other hand, formulations for and the possibility of verifying hydrological processes are often available only at a local scale, i.e., at the field-plot scale. Hence, a procedure for scaling up from the local to the regional level is required to describe properly hydrological phenomena on such large scales. To meet that goal one can generally apply one of three types of approach: scaling, stochastic analysis or inverse modeling. The purpose of this chapter is to explore the inverse modeling approach.

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  1. Department of Water Resources, Wageningen Agricultural University, 6709 PA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    R. A. Feddes, G. H. de Rooij, J. C. van Dam, P. Droogers & J. N. M. Stricker

  2. DLO The Winand Staring Centre for Integrated Land, Soil and Water Research (SC-DLO), 6709 PA, Wageningen, The Netherlands

    P. Kabat

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  1. Department of Soil Physics, Agricultural Research Organization Ministry of Agriculture, Bet Dagan, 50250, Israel

    David Russo

  2. Faculty of Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, 69978, Israel

    Gedeon Dagan

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Feddes, R.A., de Rooij, G.H., van Dam, J.C., Kabat, P., Droogers, P., Stricker, J.N.M. (1993). Estimation of Regional Effective Soil Hydraulic Parameters by Inverse Modeling. In: Russo, D., Dagan, G. (eds) Water Flow and Solute Transport in Soils. Advanced Series in Agricultural Sciences, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77947-3_14

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