Robert Horton

Robert Horton

Iowa State University

H-index: 79

North America-United States

About Robert Horton

Robert Horton, With an exceptional h-index of 79 and a recent h-index of 46 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Iowa State University, specializes in the field of soil physics, soil, water, vadose zone hydrology.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Determination of soil water retention curves from thermal conductivity curves, texture, bulk density, and field capacity

Coupled heat and water transfer in heterogeneous and deformable soils: Numerical model using mixed finite element method

Optimized measurement of frozen soil thermal properties using a heat-pulse sensor

Measurement and estimation of evapotranspiration in a maize field: A new method based on an analytical water flux model

New insights into the correlation between soil thermal conductivity and water retention in unsaturated soils

Using copula functions to predict climatic change impacts on floods in river source regions

Variability of soil thermal diffusivity in three Iowa fields

Soil structure determined from interrelationships in hydraulic, thermal and electrical properties

Robert Horton Information

University

Position

Professor of Soil Science

Citations(all)

33401

Citations(since 2020)

11236

Cited By

27590

hIndex(all)

79

hIndex(since 2020)

46

i10Index(all)

337

i10Index(since 2020)

203

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Robert Horton Skills & Research Interests

soil physics

soil

water

vadose zone hydrology

Top articles of Robert Horton

Title

Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Determination of soil water retention curves from thermal conductivity curves, texture, bulk density, and field capacity

Soil and Tillage Research

Lin Liu

Yili Lu

Robert Horton

Tusheng Ren

2024/3/1

Coupled heat and water transfer in heterogeneous and deformable soils: Numerical model using mixed finite element method

Journal of Hydrology

Zhuangji Wang

Dennis Timlin

Gang Liu

David Fleisher

Wenguang Sun

...

2024/5/1

Optimized measurement of frozen soil thermal properties using a heat-pulse sensor

Geoderma

Tianyue Zhao

Yuanyuan Zhang

Hailong He

Robert Horton

Gang Liu

2024/2/1

Measurement and estimation of evapotranspiration in a maize field: A new method based on an analytical water flux model

Agricultural Water Management

Yutong Liu

Yili Lu

Morteza Sadeghi

Robert Horton

Tusheng Ren

2024/4/30

New insights into the correlation between soil thermal conductivity and water retention in unsaturated soils

Vadose Zone Journal

Yongwei Fu

Behzad Ghanbarian

Robert Horton

Joshua Heitman

2024/1

Using copula functions to predict climatic change impacts on floods in river source regions

Advances in Climate Change Research

Ting-Xing Chen

Hai-Shen Lyv

Robert Horton

Yong-Hua Zhu

Ren-Sheng Chen

...

2024/4/16

Variability of soil thermal diffusivity in three Iowa fields

Soil Science Society of America Journal

Ibrahim N Nassar

Ahmed M Abdallah

Robert Horton

2024/1

Soil structure determined from interrelationships in hydraulic, thermal and electrical properties

Josh Heitman

Yongwei Fu

Robert Horton

2024/3/7

Quartz contents derived from particle density measurements improve the accuracy of soil thermal conductivity estimates

Geoderma

Lijie Li

Yili Lu

Tusheng Ren

Robert Horton

2023/8/1

A four-parameter-based thermo-TDR approach to estimate water and NAPL contents of soil liquid

Geoderma

Yuki Kojima

Kenta Okumura

Shinsuke Aoki

Kosuke Noborio

Kohji Kamiya

...

2023/1/1

The effect of macropore morphology of actual anecic earthworm burrows on water infiltration: A COMSOL simulation

Journal of Hydrology

Jie Zhang

Na Wen

Quan Sun

Robert Horton

Gang Liu

2023/3/1

Application of machine learning algorithms to model soil thermal diffusivity

International Communications in Heat and Mass Transfer

Kaiqi Li

Robert Horton

Hailong He

2023/12/1

Pray, listen, and share ideas with others to enhance your soil physics research

Journal of the Japanese Society of Soil Physics

Robert HORTON

2023/7/20

Thermal property standards using granular media with air-pluviation and heat pulse probe measurements

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Chihiro Dixon

Wenyi Sheng

Rong Zhou

Robert Horton

Scott B Jones

2023/3/1

An Unsaturated Hydraulic Conductivity Model Based on the Capillary Bundle Model, the Brooks‐Corey Model and Waxman‐Smits Model

Water Resources Research

Yongwei Fu

Robert Horton

Tusheng Ren

Joshua Heitman

2023/6

Excluding quartz content from the estimation of saturated soil thermal conductivity: Combined use of differential effective medium theory and geometric mean method

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Yongwei Fu

Scott Jones

Robert Horton

Joshua Heitman

2023/11/15

Time domain reflectometry waveform interpretation with convolutional neural networks

Water Resources Research

Zhuangji Wang

Shan Hua

Dennis Timlin

Yuki Kojima

Songtao Lu

...

2023/2

Experiments and COMSOL simulations: A comparative study of the heat flux plate method and the gradient method for soil heat flux measurements in barren sand

Agricultural and Forest Meteorology

Tianyue Zhao

Zhaoyu Qiao

Yuanyuan Zhang

Binxiang Huang

Robert Horton

...

2023/5/1

Robust calibration and evaluation of a percolation-based effective‐medium approximation model for thermal conductivity of unsaturated soils

Geoderma

Yongwei Fu

Behzad Ghanbarian

Robert Horton

Joshua Heitman

2023/10/1

Estimation and Assessment of the Root Zone Soil Moisture from Near-Surface Measurements over Huai River Basin

Atmosphere

En Liu

Yonghua Zhu

Haishen Lü

Robert Horton

Qiqi Gou

...

2023/1/6

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