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INFLUENCE OF PARTICLE-SIZE DISTRIBUTION MEASUREMENT METHOD ON THE PREDICTION OF SOIL WATER RETENTION CURVE

2013

Application of the Arya and Paris (AP) model to estimate the soil water retention curve requires detailed particle-size distributions (PSD) that can be obtained by fitting a continuous model to traditional sieve-hydrometer (SH) data or using the laser diffraction (LD) method. The AP model was applied to 40 Sicilian soils for which PSD was measured by both SH and LD methods. The scale factor  was set equal to 1.38 (procedure AP1) or estimated by a logistic model with parameters gathered from literature (procedure AP2). To simplify application of the AP model, a relationship for estimating a soil-specific  value from clay content was developed (procedure OPT). For both SH and LD data, proce…