Table 8.
Comparison of various empirical models with observed data sets for the wetting front vertical advance (wetted depth) prediction.
| S. No. | Model(s) | Statistical criteria |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MAE (cm) | RMSE (cm) | EF (cm2/cm2) | R2 | ||
| 1 | Al-Ogaidi | 9.796 | 10.388 | −1.035 | 0.995 |
| 2 | Malek and Peters | 5.296 | 6.435 | 0.219 | 0.995 |
| 3 | Amin and Ekhmaj | 6.979 | 7.443 | −0.045 | 0.989 |
| 4 | Li model | 1.800 | 1.974 | 0.927 | 0.986 |
| 5 | Schwartzman and Zur | 3.892 | 4.529 | 0.613 | 0.872 |