Table 3.
Conductivities of water content Cw calculated from linear, linear field and quadratic salinity index models, with respective errors, for four moistening solutions, for samples of loess with similar values of the real part of the dielectric permittivity.
| No. of solution | Re(ε*) | Cw (linear model) (mS m−1) | Relative error (%) | Cw (linear field model) (mS m−1) | Relative error (%) | Cw (quadratic model) (mS m−1) | Relative error (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13.6 | 263 | 6.9 | 278 | 13.5 | 255 | 23.5 |
| 2 | 13.6 | 758 | 5.8 | 801 | 14.7 | 756 | 12.8 |
| 3 | 13.4 | 1,424 | 6.5 | 1,434 | 12.4 | 1,441 | 19.7 |
| 4 | 13.1 | 1,919 | 6.7 | 1,796 | 15.1 | 1,921 | 24.7 |