Applied Soil Physics

Unit 1 Water Quantities.- 1.1 The Soil as a Reservoir.- 1.2 Calculating Soil Water.- 1.3 Measuring Soil Water.- 1.4 Value of Soil Water Information.- References.- Problems.- Unit 2 Water Potentials.- 2.1 Potentials in Soil Water.- 2.2 Water Potentials for Equilibrium Conditions.- 2.3 Water Potentials for Nonequilibrium Conditions.- 2.4 Measuring Matric and Pressure Potential in the Field.- 2.5 Scheduling Irrigation With Tensiometers.- 2.6 Measuring Matric Potential in the Laboratory.- 2.7 Alternate Units and Terms for Potential.- 2.8 Calculating Potentials in Soil Columns.- 2.9 Soil Water Characteristic Curves.- 2.10 Hysteresis in Soil Water.- 2.11 Solute Potential.- 2.12 Measuring Water Potential.- References.- Problems.- Unit 3 Water Flow in Soil.- 3.1 Steady State Water Flow in Soil.- 3.2 Transient State Water Flow in Soil.- 3.3 Horizontal Infiltration Into Soil.- 3.4 Vertical Water Infiltration Into Soil.- 3.5 Initial and Boundary Conditions.- 3.6 Evaporation.- 3.7 Reducing Evaporation.- 3.8 Water Drainage in Soil.- 3.9 Water Vapor Movement in Soils.- References.- Problems.- Unit 4 Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Relations.- 4.1 Radiation.- 4.2 Energy Budget.- 4.3 Estimating Evapotranspiration From Climatological and Soil Data.- 4.4 Crop Coefficients.- 4.5 Evapotranspiration When Water is Limiting.- 4.6 Plant Growth and Evapotranspiration.- 4.7 Estimating Transpiration.- References.- Problems.- Unit 5 Soil Heat Flow and Temperature.- 5.1 Soil Heat.- 5.2 Steady State Heat Flow.- 5.3 Temperature in Soil.- 5.4 Factors That Influence Soil Temperature.- 5.5 Nonsteady State Heat Flow.- References.- Problems.- Example Index.