Measuring Saturated Hydraulic Conductivity using a Generalized Solution for Single-Ring Infiltrometers
L. Wua,
L. Panb,
J. Mitchellc and
B. Sandend
a Dep. of Environmental Sciences, Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521 USA
b Earth Sci. Div., Lawrence Berkeley National Lab., Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 95720 USA
c Kearney Agri. Center, Univ. of California, Parlier, CA 93648 USA
d Univ. of California Coop. Ext., Kern County, Bakersfield, CA 93307 USA

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Fig. 1 An example of cumulative infiltration curve. The dots are measured data and the line is curve fitted to the generalized equation (Method 1)
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Fig. 2 An example of the cumulative infiltration curve. The linear part of the curve was used to calculate Ks (Method 2)
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