Using Surface Time Domain Reflectometry Measurements to Estimate Subsurface Chemical Movement
Anju Gaur*,a,
Robert Hortona,
Dan B. Jaynesb,
Jaehoon Leec and
Salem A. Al-Jabrid
a Dep. of Agronomy, Iowa State Univ., Ames, IA 50011
b USDA-ARS, National Soil Tilth Lab., 2150 Pammel Dr., Ames, IA 50011
c Biosystems Engineering and Environmental Science Department, Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996
d Dep. of Soil and Water Sciences, Sultan Qaboos Univ. Muscat, Sultanate of Oman

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Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of the experiment.
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Fig. 2. Observed relative resident concentration for the surface soil determined by dripperTDR experiment. The circles and solid lines are the measured and fitted values, respectively.
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Fig. 3. Observed relative resident concentration for the subsurface soil measured from the ponded infiltrometer experiment. The circles and solid lines are the measured and fitted values, respectively.
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