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Determining short-term changes in the hydraulic properties of a sandy-loam soil by a three-run infiltration experiment
S. Di PrimaVincenzo BagarelloN. CecereS. M. Davidsubject
Beerkan runInfiltration (hydrology)soil structure recoverymechanical disturbanceLoam0208 environmental biotechnologySettore AGR/08 - Idraulica Agraria E Sistemazioni Idraulico-ForestaliEnvironmental scienceSoil science02 engineering and technologysoil hydrodynamic parameter020801 environmental engineeringWater Science and Technologydescription
Soil structure-dependent parameters can vary rapidly as a consequence of perturbing events such as intense rainfall. Investigating their short-term changes is therefore essential to understand the general behaviour of a porous medium. The aim of this study is to gain insight into the effects of wetting, perturbation and recovery processes through different sequences of Beerkan infiltration experiments performed on a sandy-loam soil. Two different three-run infiltration experiments (LHL and LLL) were carried out by pouring water at low (L, non-perturbing) and high (H, perturbing) heights above the soil surface and at short time intervals (hours, days). The results demonstrate that the proposed method allows one to capture short-term variations in soil structure-dependent parameters. The developed methodology is expected to simplify the parameterization of hydrological models with temporally variable soil hydraulic properties.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-03-12 | Hydrological Sciences Journal |