The aim of this research is to provide an easy laboratory method to estimate vertical moisture profiles in building materials.
At the present, there are few techniques that can satisfactorily quantify the vertical moisture profile within the soil medium.
The soil under the pavement was assumed to have a negligible matric suction change, a result of limited vertical moisture flows.
Such a bias is occasionally found in 14 km grid spacing NICAM, perhaps due to under-resolved local vertical moisture transport, which could be a common problem for models that explicitly calculate cloud systems without cumulus parameterization.
In this study, it was proposed to use TDS partially in place of sand to prepare mortar for possible application in highway infrastructure like fill material in vertical moisture barriers or embankments, etc.
Since cloud base information for each CMIP5 model is not available, the approximation of cloud mass flux by vertical moisture flux at the mid- and lower troposphere has been used in many previous climate-scale rainfall scale analysis (Held and Soden 2006; Sugiyama et al. 2010; Lu et al. 2014).
