On soil retention curves and hydrological forecasting in ungauged catchments.

Abstract

In many physically based hydrological models, there is the requirement to specify the suction-moisture curve of the soil system. This paper shows that where the suction moisture curve is known, then a model can be derived to predict groundwater rise. Secondly, it is shown that with only mapped soils data, relationships exist that allow suction-moisture curves to be predicted. -from Authors