As the water matric potential is the most important component of the water total potential in unsaturated soils, it must be measured accurately. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of soil temperature on water matric potential and water total potential gradient over the period of water redistribution in a Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo (Oxisol/Hapludox) located in the municipality of Piracicaba, SP, Brazil. In a circular plot of 3 m diameter, 10 tensiometers with pressure transducers (model SWT3 from […]

The intrinsic permeability or soil air permeability is an important soil property for the identification of changes in soil porous space caused by soil tillage, in estimations of soil properties that are expensive and difficult to be determined in the laboratory, and for the formulation of flux models in cropped and contaminated soils. The purpose of this study was to develop a data acquisition system (electronic module and software) for intrinsic permeability measurement, in laboratory. High precision of the acquisition […]

The tensiometer is the most used instrument in the field to determine the soil water matric potential, so that the evaluation of its reading systems is very important. The purpose of this study was to evaluate different reading systems for the traditional field tensiometer traditional field tensiometer and it is justified because it will indicate the situation in which each system should be used. The experiment was carried out in a completely randomized factorial design (3 x 2 x 2 x 11), using three tensiometer reading […]