Articles | Volume 18, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4053-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-18-4053-2014
Research article
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15 Oct 2014
Research article |  | 15 Oct 2014

Predicting the soil moisture retention curve, from soil particle size distribution and bulk density data using a packing density scaling factor

F. Meskini-Vishkaee, M. H. Mohammadi, and M. Vanclooster

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