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  1. An improved van Genuchten soil water characteristic model to account for surface adsorptive forces

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, November 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  2. Wi-Fi signal for soil moisture sensing

    Article • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  3. Experimental evidence of non-equilibrium water flow during bare-soil evaporation

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  4. Extending the measurement range for determining soil hydraulic properties with the simplified evaporation method using relative humidity sensors

    Article • March 2024, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  5. Effects of improved water retention by increased soil organic matter on the water balance of arable soils: A numerical analysis

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, December 2023, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  6. Prediction of absolute unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, December 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  7. Soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity measured in a wide saturation range

    Article • Earth System Science Data, October 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  8. Validating coupled flow theory for bare‐soil evaporation under different boundary conditions

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  9. Improved calculation of soil hydraulic conductivity with the simplified evaporation method

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, July 2023, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  10. Reproducibility of the wet part of the soil water retention curve: a European interlaboratory comparison

    Article • SOIL, June 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  11. Full prediction of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models

    Article • June 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  12. Supplementary material to "Full prediction of unsaturated hydraulic conductivity – comparison of four different capillary bundle models"

    Article • June 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  13. The Influence of the Osmotic Potential on Evapotranspiration

    Article • Water, May 2023, MDPI AG

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  14. Coupled hydrothermal modelling of subsurface heating in the vicinity of high-power power cables under natural conditions

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  15. Validation of coupled water, vapor and heat flow models with evaporation experiments

    Article • May 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  16. Prediction of the absolute hydraulic conductivity function from soil water retention data

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, April 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Rien van Genuchten, Professor Wolfgang Durner

  17. Soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity measured in a wide saturation range

    Article • March 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  18. Rock fragments influence the water retention and hydraulic conductivity of soils

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, February 2023, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  19. Prediction of the absolute hydraulic conductivity function from soil water retention data

    Article • January 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Rien van Genuchten, Professor Wolfgang Durner

  20. Supplementary material to "Prediction of the absolute hydraulic conductivity function from soil water retention data"

    Article • January 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Rien van Genuchten, Professor Wolfgang Durner

  21. Reproducibility of the Wet Part of the Soil Water Retention Curve: A European Interlaboratory Comparison

    Article • January 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  22. Supplementary material to "Reproducibility of the Wet Part of the Soil Water Retention Curve: A European Interlaboratory Comparison"

    Article • January 2023, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  23. Rock fragments influence the water retention and hydraulic conductivity of soils

    Article • September 2022, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  24. Effective Hydraulic Properties of Stony Soils: Simulation, Laboratory Experiment and Modeling

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  25. Simultaneous estimation of soil hydraulic properties and surface evaporation using inverse modeling for a large field-lysimeter

    Article • March 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  26. Effective hydraulic properties of 3D virtual stony soils identified by inverse modeling

    Article • SOIL, February 2022, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  27. Effective hydraulic properties of 3D virtual stony soils identified by inverse modeling

    Article • September 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  28. The improved integral suspension pressure method (ISP+) for precise particle size analysis of soil and sedimentary materials

    Article • Soil and Tillage Research, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  29. A Simple Model to Predict Hydraulic Conductivity in Medium to Dry Soil From the Water Retention Curve

    Article • Water Resources Research, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  30. Capillary, Film, and Vapor Flow in Transient Bare Soil Evaporation (1): Identifiability Analysis of Hydraulic Conductivity in the Medium to Dry Moisture Range

    Article • Water Resources Research, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  31. Capillary, Film, and Vapor Flow in Transient Bare Soil Evaporation (2): Experimental Identification of Hydraulic Conductivity in the Medium to Dry Moisture Range

    Article • Water Resources Research, May 2021, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  32. Developing Pseudo Continuous Pedotransfer Functions for International Soils Measured with the Evaporation Method and the HYPROP System: II. The Soil Hydraulic Conductivity Curve

    Article • Water, March 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  33. Actual evaporation from bare soils - A comparison of numerical modelling and field lysimeter data

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  34. Coupled water, vapor and heat flow in evaporation experiments under different boundary conditions

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  35. Determining the particle-size distribution of soil materials with the integral suspension pressure (ISP) method – lessons learned from PARIO measurements

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  36. Effective hydraulic properties of virtual stony soils: Forward 3D simulations evaluated by 1D inverse modeling

    Article • March 2021, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  37. Innovative method for installing soil moisture probes in a large‐scale undisturbed gravel lysimeter

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  38. Developing Pseudo Continuous Pedotransfer Functions for International Soils Measured with the Evaporation Method and the HYPROP System: I. The Soil Water Retention Curve

    Article • Water, December 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  39. A physical based model to describe effective hydraulic conductivity of the soil mixtures

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  40. Effect of stones on soil hydraulic properties: measurement and modeling

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  41. Testing the improved Integral Suspension Pressure method ISP+ with the PARIO™ device

    Article • March 2020, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  42. Studying Unimodal, Bimodal, PDI and Bimodal-PDI Variants of Multiple Soil Water Retention Models: I. Direct Model Fit Using the Extended Evaporation and Dewpoint Methods

    Article • Water, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  43. Studying Unimodal, Bimodal, PDI and Bimodal-PDI Variants of Multiple Soil Water Retention Models: II. Evaluation of Parametric Pedotransfer Functions Against Direct Fits

    Article • Water, March 2020, MDPI AG

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  44. Temperature Dependence of Soil Hydraulic Properties: Transient Measurements and Modeling

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, November 2019, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  45. Effects of Bentonite, Hydrogel and Biochar Amendments on Soil Hydraulic Properties from Saturation to Oven Dryness

    Article • Pedosphere, October 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  46. A Modular Framework for Modeling Unsaturated Soil Hydraulic Properties Over the Full Moisture Range

    Article • Water Resources Research, June 2019, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  47. Measuring near‐saturated hydraulic conductivity of soils by quasi unit‐gradient percolation—2. Application of the methodology

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, April 2019, Wiley

    Prof. Rajib Maity, Professor Wolfgang Durner

  48. Measuring near‐saturated hydraulic conductivity of soils by quasi unit‐gradient percolation—1. Theory and numerical analysis

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, April 2019, Wiley

    Prof. Rajib Maity, Professor Wolfgang Durner

  49. Determination of the Soil Water Retention Curve around the Wilting Point: Optimized Protocol for the Dewpoint Method

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, March 2019, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  50. Numerical test of the laboratory evaporation method using coupled water, vapor and heat flow modelling

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, March 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  51. Influence of Stone Content on Soil Hydraulic Properties: Experimental Investigation and Test of Existing Model Concepts

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  52. Local Solute Sinks and Sources Cause Erroneous Dispersion Fluxes in Transport Simulations with the Convection–Dispersion Equation

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, January 2019, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  53. Eddy covariance based surface-atmosphere exchange and crop coefficient determination in a mountainous peatland

    Article • Ecohydrology, October 2018, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  54. Measurement and estimation of the soil water retention curve using the evaporation method and the pseudo continuous pedotransfer function

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  55. Robust Inverse Modeling of Growing Season Net Ecosystem Exchange in a Mountainous Peatland: Influence of Distributional Assumptions on Estimated Parameters and Total Carbon Fluxes

    Article • Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, June 2018, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  56. Comparing Methods for Measuring Water Retention of Peat Near Permanent Wilting Point

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, April 2018, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  57. A pore-size classification for peat bogs derived from unsaturated hydraulic properties

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, December 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  58. Towards an unbiased filter routine to determine precipitation and evapotranspiration from high precision lysimeter measurements

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, June 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  59. Peatland bog pedogenesis is reflected in unsaturated hydraulic properties

    Article • May 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  60. Supplementary material to "Peatland bog pedogenesis is reflected in unsaturated hydraulic properties"

    Article • May 2017, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  61. Modified Feddes type stress reduction function for modeling root water uptake: Accounting for limited aeration and low water potential

    Article • Agricultural Water Management, May 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  62. New method for particle size analysis of soils

    Article • Water Resources Research, January 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  63. Unsaturated hydraulic properties ofSphagnummoss and peat reveal trimodal pore-size distributions

    Article • Water Resources Research, January 2017, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  64. Prediction of capillary air-liquid interfacial area vs. saturation function from relationship between capillary pressure and water saturation

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, November 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  65. Lead removal from aqueous solutions by raw sawdust and magnesium pretreated biochar: Experimental investigations and numerical modelling

    Article • Journal of Environmental Management, September 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  66. Biofilm effect on soil hydraulic properties: Experimental investigation using soil‐grown real biofilm

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2016, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  67. Improving prediction of hydraulic conductivity by constraining capillary bundle models to a maximum pore size

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, November 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  68. Modeling dynamic non-equilibrium water flow observations under various boundary conditions

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, October 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  69. soil water retention

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, August 2015, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  70. A comprehensive filtering scheme for high-resolution estimation of the water balance components from high-precision lysimeters

    Article • Hydrology and Earth System Sciences, August 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  71. Revisiting the simplified evaporation method: Identification of hydraulic functions considering vapor, film and corner flow

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  72. Relationships between soil hydraulic parameters and induced polarization spectra

    Article • Near Surface Geophysics, July 2015, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  73. Does water repellency of pyrochars and hydrochars counter their positive effects on soil hydraulic properties?

    Article • Geoderma, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  74. Closed‐Form Model for Hydraulic Properties Based on Angular Pores with Lognormal Size Distribution

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, February 2015, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  75. High-resolution estimation of the water balance components from high-precision lysimeters

    Article • January 2015, Copernicus GmbH

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  76. Comment on “Simple consistent models for water retention and hydraulic conductivity in the complete moisture range” by A. Peters

    Article • Water Resources Research, September 2014, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  77. The effect of temperature-induced soil water repellency on transient capillary pressure-water content relations during capillary rise

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, April 2014, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  78. Changes in the molecular composition of organic matter leached from an agricultural topsoil following addition of biomass-derived black carbon (biochar)

    Article • Organic Geochemistry, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  79. Water retention characteristics of soils over the whole moisture range: a comparison of laboratory methods

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  80. Physically-based model of soil hydraulic properties accounting for variable contact angle and its effect on hysteresis

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, September 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  81. Virtual Soils: Moisture Measurements and Their Interpretation by Inverse Modeling

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, August 2013, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  82. Effect of soil water repellency on soil hydraulic properties estimated under dynamic conditions

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  83. Virtual Soils: Assessment of the Effects of Soil Structure on the Hydraulic Behavior of Cultivated Soils

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  84. Inverse Estimation of Soil Hydraulic and Root Distribution Parameters from Lysimeter Data

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  85. Dynamic Nonequilibrium of Water Flow in Porous Media: A Review

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, August 2012, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  86. Estimating Freundlich isotherm parameters of heavy metals from multiple batch extraction tests using a Bayesian approach

    Article • Geoderma, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  87. Inverse modeling of dynamic nonequilibrium in water flow with an effective approach

    Article • Water Resources Research, March 2012, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  88. Consistent parameter constraints for soil hydraulic functions

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, October 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  89. Combined Transient Method for Determining Soil Hydraulic Properties in a Wide Pressure Head Range

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, September 2011, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  90. Extended multistep outflow method for the accurate determination of soil hydraulic properties near water saturation

    Article • Water Resources Research, August 2011, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  91. Analysis of the Agreement of Soil Hydraulic Properties Obtained from Multistep‐Outflow and Evaporation Methods

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, November 2010, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  92. Evaporation Method for Measuring Unsaturated Hydraulic Properties of Soils: Extending the Measurement Range

    Article • Soil Science Society of America Journal, July 2010, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  93. The evaporation method: Extending the measurement range of soil hydraulic properties using the air‐entry pressure of the ceramic cup

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, June 2010, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  94. Reply to comment by N. Shokri and D. Or on “A simple model for describing hydraulic conductivity in unsaturated porous media accounting for film and capillary flow”

    Article • Water Resources Research, June 2010, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  95. Environmental Fate – Geoökologie in einer sich verändernden Umwelt

    Article • Environmental Sciences Europe, June 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  96. Free‐Form estimation of soil hydraulic properties using Wind’s method

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, November 2008, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  97. A simple model for describing hydraulic conductivity in unsaturated porous media accounting for film and capillary flow

    Article • Water Resources Research, November 2008, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  98. From the pore scale to the lab scale: 3-D lab experiment and numerical simulation of drainage in heterogeneous porous media

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  99. Prediction of capillary hysteresis in a porous material using lattice-Boltzmann methods and comparison to experimental data and a morphological pore network model

    Article • Advances in Water Resources, September 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  100. Simplified evaporation method for determining soil hydraulic properties

    Article • Journal of Hydrology, July 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  101. Assessing Contaminant Mobilization from Waste Materials: Application of Bayesian Parameter Estimation to Batch Extraction Tests at Varying Liquid-to-Solid Ratios

    Article • Environmental Science & Technology, May 2008, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  102. Multiple batch extraction test to estimate contaminant release parameters using a Bayesian approach

    Article • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  103. Effective hydraulic properties of layered soils at the lysimeter scale determined by inverse modelling

    Article • European Journal of Soil Science, October 2007, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  104. Free‐form estimation of the unsaturated soil hydraulic properties by inverse modeling using global optimization

    Article • Water Resources Research, July 2007, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  105. Spatial and temporal variability of water repellency in a sandy soil contaminated with tar oil and heavy metals

    Article • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, December 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  106. Improved estimation of soil water retention characteristics from hydrostatic column experiments

    Article • Water Resources Research, November 2006, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  107. Spatial variability of arsenic and chromium in the soil water at a former wood preserving site

    Article • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, May 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  108. Closed‐Form Expression for the Multi‐Modal Unsaturated Conductivity Function

    Article • Vadose Zone Journal, January 2006, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  109. Simulation of chromium transport in the unsaturated zone for predicting contaminant entries into the groundwater

    Article • Journal of Plant Nutrition and Soil Science, June 2004, Wiley

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  110. Modeling Transient Water and Solute Transport in a Biporous Soil

    Article • Water Resources Research, April 1996, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  111. Hydraulic conductivity estimation for soils with heterogeneous pore structure

    Article • Water Resources Research, February 1994, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Wolfgang Durner

  112. Transport of phthalate-esters in undisturbed and unsaturated soil columns

    Article • Journal of Contaminant Hydrology, November 1991, Elsevier

    Professor Wolfgang Durner