Wang et al. (2025) Film-area Explicit Full-range Soil Hydraulic Dataset and Model Code (for “Development and Evaluation of a Full-range Soil Hydraulic Model Explicitly Incorporating Film Area”)

Identification

• Journal: Mendeley Data
• Year: 2025
• Date: 2025-12-25
• Authors: Xin Wang, zuoliang wang, Rong Liu
• DOI: 10.17632/gb8pwvpmrk.1

Research Groups

• Northwest Institute of Eco-Environment and Resources
• State Key Laboratory of Frozen Soil Engineering

Short Summary

This paper presents the development and evaluation of a novel full-range soil hydraulic model that explicitly incorporates film area, providing the associated observational data, calibrated parameters, and MATLAB code for reproducibility.

Objective

• To develop and evaluate a full-range soil hydraulic model that explicitly incorporates film area, and to provide the necessary data and code for its reproduction and further use.

Study Configuration

• Spatial Scale: Not explicitly defined, but focuses on soil hydraulic properties, applicable at the pore to sample scale.
• Temporal Scale: Not explicitly defined, as the study focuses on model development and evaluation of steady-state or equilibrium hydraulic properties.

Methodology and Data

• Models used: WWL film-area-explicit model, benchmark models.
• Data sources: Observational data including measured points for soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity curves, compiled from existing databases and literature (organized into Set1 and Set2 sample groups).

Main Results

• The study successfully developed and evaluated a novel full-range soil hydraulic model explicitly incorporating film area.
• The provided code and parameters enable the reproduction of main curve comparisons and figures, demonstrating the model's performance against benchmark models for soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity.

Contributions

• Development of a novel full-range soil hydraulic model that explicitly incorporates film area, addressing a gap in existing models.
• Provision of a comprehensive dataset, calibrated parameters, and open-source MATLAB code to facilitate reproducibility and further research in soil hydrology.

Funding

• National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant ID: 52539002)
• National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant ID: 42575094)
• Program of the state key laboratory of cryospheric science and frozen soil engineering (Grant ID: CSFSE-ZZ-2407)

Citation

@article{Wang2025Filmarea,
  author = {Wang, Xin and wang, zuoliang and Liu, Rong},
  title = {Film-area Explicit Full-range Soil Hydraulic Dataset and Model Code (for “Development and Evaluation of a Full-range Soil Hydraulic Model Explicitly Incorporating Film Area”)},
  journal = {Mendeley Data},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.17632/gb8pwvpmrk.1},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.17632/gb8pwvpmrk.1}
}