Open Tension-disk Infiltrometer Meta-database (OTIM) Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Guillaume Blanchy, Lukas Albrecht, Gilberto Bragato, Nicolas Jarvis, Johannes Koestel
Saturated and near-saturated hydraulic conductivities K (mm/h) are important soil properties that determine the partitioning of precipitation into surface runoff and infiltration and indicate soil susceptibility to preferential flow as well as soil aeration properties. Measurements of saturated and near-saturated soil hydraulic conductivities are time consuming and not practical for larger scales where they are mostly needed. The research community has therefore put effort in deriving pedotransfer functions to predict K using proxy variables. The precision of such pedotransfer functions has ...