Unsaturated-zone modeling : progress, challenges and applications

Preface.- Colour Plates.- Concepts and dimensionality in unsaturated modeling of water flow and solute transport: 1. Concepts and dimensionality in modeling unsaturated water flow and solute transport.- 2. Integrated modeling of vadose-zone flow and transport processes.- Parameterizing the soil-water-atmosphere transfer through vegetations: 3. Understanding and parameterizing the soil-water-atmosphere transfer through vegetation.- 4. Parameterizing the soil-water-plant root system.- Unsaturated-saturated water flow and solute transport and relation to surface water: regional scale: 5. Drainage-water travel times as a key factor for surface water contamination.- 6. Role of vadose-zone flow processes in regional-scale hydrology: review, opportunities and challenges.- Observing soil-vegetation system: measurements and models: 7. Energy and water flow through the soil-vegetation-atmosphere system: the fiction of measurements and the reality of models.- 8. Reality and fiction of models and data in soil hydrology.- Applications: 9. Inserting man's irrigation and drainage wisdom into soil water flow models and bringing it back out: how far have we progressed?- 10. Eco-hydrology and biodiversity.- 11. On the use of unsaturated flow and transport models in nutrient and pesticide management.- List of authors.