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Overview

Feike J. Leij is affiliated with California State University, Long Beach in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on environmental science and engineering, with specific attention to civil and structural engineering, environmental engineering, and aspects of management, monitoring, policy, and law related to these fields.

The main topics addressed in their work include soil and unsaturated flow, soil moisture and remote sensing, as well as landslides and related hazards.

Leij has published research in several journal venues, notably:

  • CATENA
  • Water Resources Research

Among the recent academic papers authored by Feike J. Leij are:

  • "Hierarchical prediction of soil water content time series," published in 2021 in CATENA
  • "Analytical Solution for Field Soil Water Content Profiles," published in 2021 in Water Resources Research

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • J. H. Dane
  • Antonella Sciortino

Best Publications

  • rosetta: a computer program for estimating soil hydraulic parameters with hierarchical pedotransfer functions

    Marcel G. Schaap;Feike J. Leij;Martinus Th. van Genuchten

  • The RETC code for quantifying the hydraulic functions of unsaturated soils

    M.Th. Van Genuchten;F.J. Leij;S.R. Yates

  • Neural network analysis for hierarchical prediction of soil hydraulic properties

    Marcel G. Schaap;Feike J. Leij;Martinus Th. van Genuchten

  • Database-related accuracy and uncertainty of pedotransfer functions

    Marcel G. Schaap;Feike J. Leij

  • Improved Prediction of Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity with the Mualem-van Genuchten Model

    Marcel G. Schaap;Feike J. Leij

  • Description of the unsaturated soil hydraulic database UNSODA version 2.0

    A Nemes;M.G Schaap;F.J Leij;J.H.M Wösten

  • Scaling Parameter to Predict the Soil Water Characteristic from Particle-Size Distribution Data

    Lalit M. Arya;Feike J. Leij;Martinus Th. van Genuchten;Peter J. Shouse

  • Using neural networks to predict soil water retention and soil hydraulic conductivity

    Marcel G Schaap;Feike J Leij

  • Modeling the Nonequilibrium Transport of Linearly Interacting Solutes in Porous Media: A Review

    M. Sardin;D. Schweich;F. J. Leij;M. Th. van Genuchten

  • A comprehensive set of analytical solutions for nonequilibrium solute transport with first‐order decay and zero‐order production

    Nobuo Toride;Feike J. Leij;Martinus T. van Genuchten

  • Relationship between the Hydraulic Conductivity Function and the Particle-Size Distribution

    Lalit M. Arya;Feike J. Leij;Peter J. Shouse;Martinus Th. van Genuchten

  • Analytical Solutions for Solute Transport in Three-Dimensional Semi-infinite Porous Media

    Feike J. Leij;Todd H. Skaggs;Martinus Th. Van Genuchten

  • Closed-form expressions for water retention and conductivity data

    Feike J. Leij;Walter B. Russell;Scott M. Lesch

  • Analysis of Measured, Predicted, and Estimated Hydraulic Conductivity Using the RETC Computer Program

    S. R. Yates;M. Th. van Genuchten;F. J. Leij;A. W. Warrick

  • Estimating interfacial areas for multi-fluid soil systems

    Scott A. Bradford;Feike J. Leij

  • Hydrodynamic dispersion in an unsaturated dune sand

    Nobuo Toride;Mitsuhiro Inoue;Feike J. Leij

  • Modeling the dynamics of the soil pore-size distribution

    Feike J. Leij;Feike J. Leij;Teamrat A. Ghezzehei;Dani Or

  • Soil water retention. I. Introduction of a shape index

    Randel Haverkamp;Feike J. Leij;Carlos Fuentes;Antonella Sciortino

  • Stochastic model for posttillage soil pore space evolution

    Dani Or;Feike J. Leij;Victor Snyder;Teamrat A. Ghezzehei

  • Characterization and measurement of the hydraulic properties of unsaturated porous media : proceedings of the International Workshop on Characterization and Measurement of the Hydraulic Properties of Unsaturated Porous Media, Riverside, California, October 22-24, 1997

    M. Th. van Genuchten;F. J. Leij

  • The RETC code for quantifying the hydraulic functions of unsaturated soils: project summary

    M.Th. Van Genuchten;F.J. Leij;S.R. Yates

Frequent Co-Authors

M. Th. van Genuchten
M. Th. van Genuchten Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Marcel G. Schaap
Marcel G. Schaap University of Arizona
Scott A. Bradford
Scott A. Bradford Agricultural Research Service
Todd H. Skaggs
Todd H. Skaggs US Department of Agriculture
Peter J. Shouse
Peter J. Shouse Agricultural Research Service
Binayak P. Mohanty
Binayak P. Mohanty Texas A&M University
Luis S. Pereira
Luis S. Pereira University of Lisbon
Eckart Priesack
Eckart Priesack University of Bonn
Linda M. Abriola
Linda M. Abriola Tufts University
Glenn V. Wilson
Glenn V. Wilson Agricultural Research Service

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