Scaling Methods in Soil Physics

Hardback  456 pp  ISBN 0849313740      £85.00

• Presents state-of-the-art methods for scaling the behavior of soil and the properties of soil-plant-water relations
• Provides examples of how multi-scale characterization of soil hydrological processes and parameters can be used to facilitate effective environmental monitoring and prediction
• Supplies parameters for estimating biogeochemical trends related to climate change and establishes appropriate soil parameters for describing the long-term fate of pollutants
• Contains contributions by acknowledged experts from across the globe
• Includes numerous illustrations, many of which are in full-color

The authors present the state-of-the-art in addressing the fundamental scale-bridging problem and provide case studies crossing several levels of scale hierarchy. Scaling Methods in Soil Physics offers novel approaches based on geostatistics, artificial intelligence, wavelet transforms, fractal theory, soil-landscape relationships, computer simulations, and advances in theories of scale developed and tested to facilitate the use of soil physics data in a wide variety of soil/land/earth-related applications.

Contents

• The PSF Model of Soil Structure: A Multiscale Approach, E.M.A. Perrier and N.R.A. Bird
• Scaling and Multiscaling of Soil Pore Systems Determined by Image Analysis, A.M. Tarquis, D. Giménez, A. Saa, M.C. Díaz, and J.M. Gascó
• Scaling and Estimating the Soil Water Characteristic Using a One-Parameter Model, R.D. Williams and L.R. Ahuja
• Diffusion Scaling in Low Connectivity Porous Media, R.P. Ewing and R. Horton
• Solute Transport in Porous Media: Scale Effects, L. Zhou and H.M. Selim
• A Pedotransfer Function for Predicting Solute Dispersivity: Model Testing and Upscaling, E. Perfect
• Upscaling of Hydraulic Properties of Heterogeneous Soils, J. Zhu and B.P. Mohanty
• Spatial Variability of Soil Moisture and Its Implications for Scaling, A.W. Western, R.B. Grayson, G. Blöschl, and D.J. Wilson
• An Evaluation of Interpolation Methods for Local Estimation of Solute Concentration, T.R. Ellsworth, P.M. Reed, and R.J.M. Hudson
• Scale- and Location-Dependent Soil Hydraulic Properties in a Hummocky Landscape: A Wavelet Approach, B.C. Si
• Multiple Scale Conditional Simulation, P. Kumar
• Effects of Topography, Soil Properties and Mean Soil Moisture on the Spatial Distribution of Soil Moisture: A Stochastic Analysis, D.-H. Chang and S. Islam
• A Mix of Scales: Topography, Point Samples and Yield Maps, D.J. Timlin, Y.A. Pachepsky, and C.L. Walthall
• Evaluating Soil Data from Several Sources Using a Landscape Model, C.L.S. Morgan, J.M. Norman, C.C. Molling, K. McSweeney, and B. Lowery
• Application of a Neural Network-Based Spatial Disaggregation Scheme for Addressing Scaling of Soil Moisture, T.D. Tsegaye, W.L. Crosson, C.A. Laymon, M.P. Schamschula, and A.B. Johnson
• Scaling Soil Mechanical Properties to Predict Plant Responses, D.K. Cassel and E.C. Edwards
• Estimating Nitrate-N Losses at Different Spatial Scales in Agricultural Watersheds , D.J. Mulla, P.H. Gowda, A.S. Birr, and B.J. Dalzell
• Incorporation of Remote Sensing Data in an Upscaled Soil Water Model, M.S. Seyfried
• Hierarchical Frameworks for Multiscale Bridging in Hydropedology, H. Lin and S. Rathbun
• Scaling and Hierarchy of Models for Flow Processes in Unsaturated Fractured Rock, B. Faybishenko, G.S. Bodvarsson, J. Hinds, and P.A. Witherspoon
• Index