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Soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity measured in a wide saturation range
Tobias L. Hohenbrink
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Geoecology, Soil Science & Soil Physics, TU
Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Agrometeorological Research Centre,
38116 Braunschweig, Germany
Conrad Jackisch
Interdisciplinary Environmental Research Centre, TU Bergakademie
Freiberg, 09599 Freiberg, Germany
Institute for Water and River Basin Management, Chair of Hydrology,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany
Wolfgang Durner
Institute of Geoecology, Soil Science & Soil Physics, TU
Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Kai Germer
Institute of Geoecology, Soil Science & Soil Physics, TU
Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Thünen Institute of Agricultural Technology, 38116 Braunschweig,
Germany
Sascha C. Iden
Institute of Geoecology, Soil Science & Soil Physics, TU
Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Janis Kreiselmeier
Thünen Institute of Forest Ecosystems, 16225 Eberswalde, Germany
Institute of Soil Science and Site Ecology, TU Dresden, 01737 Tharandt, Germany
Frederic Leuther
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Department of Soil
System Sciences, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
Chair of Soil Physics, University of Bayreuth, 95447 Bayreuth,
Germany
Johanna C. Metzger
Institute of Soil Science, Center for Earth System Research and
Sustainability (CEN), Universität Hamburg, 20146 Hamburg, Germany
Institute of Geoscience, Group of Ecohydrology, Friedrich Schiller
University Jena, 07749 Jena, Germany
Mahyar Naseri
Institute of Geoecology, Soil Science & Soil Physics, TU
Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
Thünen Institute of Agricultural Technology, 38116 Braunschweig,
Germany
Andre Peters
Institute of Geoecology, Soil Science & Soil Physics, TU
Braunschweig, 38106 Braunschweig, Germany
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The article describes a collection of 572 data sets of soil water retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity data measured with state-of-the-art laboratory methods. Furthermore, the data collection contains basic soil properties such as soil texture and organic carbon content. We expect that the data will be useful for various important purposes, for example, the development of soil hydraulic property models and related pedotransfer functions.
The article describes a collection of 572 data sets of soil water retention and unsaturated...
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