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A dataset containing hydraulic soil characteristics from Hydrus1D GUI database

Usage

materials

Format

A data frame with 12 rows and 7 variables:

material_name

Name of soil

Qr

Residual soil water content

Qs

Saturated soil water content

Alpha

Parameter a in the soil water retention function (L-1, here: cm)

n

Parameter n in the soil water retention function

Ks

Saturated hydraulic conductivity (unit: LT-1, here: cm/day)

I

Tortuosity parameter in the conductivity function (-)

Source

Hydrus1D GUI -> Soil Hydraulic Properties (Pre-Processing Menu, Water Flow Submenu)

Examples

materials
#> # A tibble: 12 × 7
#>    material_name      Qr    Qs Alpha     n     Ks     I
#>    <chr>           <dbl> <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>  <dbl> <dbl>
#>  1 sand            0.045  0.43 0.145  2.68 713.     0.5
#>  2 loamy sand      0.057  0.41 0.124  2.28 350.     0.5
#>  3 sandy loam      0.065  0.41 0.075  1.89 106.     0.5
#>  4 loam            0.078  0.43 0.036  1.56  25.0    0.5
#>  5 sillt           0.034  0.46 0.016  1.37   6      0.5
#>  6 silt loam       0.067  0.45 0.02   1.41  10.8    0.5
#>  7 sandy clay loam 0.1    0.39 0.059  1.48  31.4    0.5
#>  8 clay loam       0.095  0.41 0.019  1.31   6.24   0.5
#>  9 silty clay loam 0.089  0.43 0.01   1.23   1.68   0.5
#> 10 sandy clay      0.1    0.38 0.027  1.23   2.88   0.5
#> 11 silty clay      0.07   0.36 0.005  1.09   0.48   0.5
#> 12 clay loam       0.068  0.38 0.008  1.09   4.8    0.5