Articles | Volume 21, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2725-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-2725-2017
Research article
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09 Jun 2017
Research article |  | 09 Jun 2017

Saturated hydraulic conductivity model computed from bimodal water retention curves for a range of New Zealand soils

Joseph Alexander Paul Pollacco, Trevor Webb, Stephen McNeill, Wei Hu, Sam Carrick, Allan Hewitt, and Linda Lilburne

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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (10 Mar 2017) by Nunzio Romano
AR by Anna Wenzel on behalf of the Authors (13 Mar 2017)  Author's response
ED: Reconsider after major revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (19 Mar 2017) by Nunzio Romano
AR by Joseph Alexander Paul Pollacco on behalf of the Authors (28 Mar 2017)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (28 Mar 2017) by Nunzio Romano
RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (28 Mar 2017)
ED: Publish as is (29 Mar 2017) by Nunzio Romano
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Descriptions of soil hydraulic properties, such as soil moisture release curve, θ(h), and saturated hydraulic conductivities, Ks, are a prerequisite for hydrological models. Because it is usually more difficult to describe Ks than θ(h) from pedotransfer functions, we developed a physical unimodal model to compute Ks solely from hydraulic parameters derived from the Kosugi θ(h). We further adaptations to this model to adapt it to dual-porosity structural soils.