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MODELLING SOIL WATER CHARACTERISTICS OF AN INLAND VALLEY SOIL
1Agrometerology/Simulation Modelling,
Department of Agronomy, University Ibadan, Nigeria
ABSTRACT
Measured soil characteristics data served as an input to the model to generate the simulated data, subsequently compared and subjected to coefficient of determination (R2) to serve as a goodness-of-fit measurement. The soils textural class varied from Sand, Loamy sand and Sandy loam. There was a good fit between the measured and simulated soil water characteristics for Sandy loam and Sand texture class. For sandy loam soil (R2 = 0.77, Pisture content. A poor fit was observed for loamy sand soil and saturated for hydraulic conductivity for all the textural classes.
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