Scaling in Soil Physics: Principles and Applications

The extreme variability of soils has made it very difficult to generalize our quantitative physical theories that are derived for ideal, homogenous systems. In hindsight, the concept of similitude seems both obvious and logical. Unfortunately, despite the current interest in geostatistical approaches to soil variability, the full power of the similarity concepts has yet to be realized in practice. The papers in this symposium should make this concept much more accessible to soil scientists, earth scientists, and engineers. Properly applied, similarity should bring the same insight and conceptual structure to soil science that dimensional analysis has brought to engineering and physics. The papers in this publication deserve careful study and analysis.

• Format: Misc.
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0891189203
• ISBN13: 9780891189206
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Acsess