Unit 1 Water Quantities -- 1.1 The Soil as a Reservoir -- 1.2 Calculating Soil Water -- 1.3 Measuring Soil Water -- 1.4 Value of Soil Water Information -- References -- Problems -- Unit 2 Water Potentials -- 2.1 Potentials in Soil Water -- 2.2 Water Potentials for Equilibrium Conditions -- 2.3 Water Potentials for Nonequilibrium Conditions -- 2.4 Measuring Matric and Pressure Potential in the Field -- 2.5 Scheduling Irrigation With Tensiometers -- 2.6 Measuring Matric Potential in the Laboratory -- 2.7 Alternate Units and Terms for Potential -- 2.8 Calculating Potentials in Soil Columns -- 2.9 Soil Water Characteristic Curves -- 2.10 Hysteresis in Soil Water -- 2.11 Solute Potential -- 2.12 Measuring Water Potential -- References -- Problems -- Unit 3 Water Flow in Soil -- 3.1 Steady State Water Flow in Soil -- 3.2 Transient State Water Flow in Soil -- 3.3 Horizontal Infiltration Into Soil -- 3.4 Vertical Water Infiltration Into Soil -- 3.5 Initial and Boundary Conditions -- 3.6 Evaporation -- 3.7 Reducing Evaporation -- 3.8 Water Drainage in Soil -- 3.9 Water Vapor Movement in Soils -- References -- Problems -- Unit 4 Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Relations -- 4.1 Radiation -- 4.2 Energy Budget -- 4.3 Estimating Evapotranspiration From Climatological and Soil Data -- 4.4 Crop Coefficients -- 4.5 Evapotranspiration When Water is Limiting -- 4.6 Plant Growth and Evapotranspiration -- 4.7 Estimating Transpiration -- References -- Problems -- Unit 5 Soil Heat Flow and Temperature -- 5.1 Soil Heat -- 5.2 Steady State Heat Flow -- 5.3 Temperature in Soil -- 5.4 Factors That Influence Soil Temperature -- 5.5 Nonsteady State Heat Flow -- References -- Problems -- Example Index.