MRCON: COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR ESTIMATING SOIL MOISTURE RETENTION AND UNSATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY |
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| Authors: | L O Block M J Hendry G W Chan |
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| Institution: | Groundwater Section, Drainage Branch, Irrigation &Conservation Division, Alberta Agriculture, Agriculture Center, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada T1J 4C7.;Director of Research, National Water Well Association, 6375 Riverside Drive, Dublin, Ohio 43017 (formerly with Alberta Agriculture). |
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| Abstract: | Abstract. MRCON is an interactive computer program designed to approximate soil moisture retention ( Θ-Ψ ) and/or unsaturated hydraulic conductivity (K- Θ ) for soils. MRCON, which is written in BASIC, uses empirical methods obtained from the literature to calculate K- Θ and a modified method to calculate Θ-Ψ . Input data for the program consist of a saturated moisture content and a minimum of three values of Θ-Ψ . A measured value of saturated hydraulic conductivity can be used as input to better approximate the K -Θ curves to field conditions. |
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