Temporal Stability of Soil Moisture Spatial Pattern and Subsurface Preferential Flow Pathways in the Shale Hills Catchment

2006 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 317-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Lin
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Spatial Pattern ◽  
Preferential Flow ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Flow Pathways ◽  
Preferential Flow Pathways ◽  
Shale Hills

scholarly journals Detecting infiltrated water and preferential flow pathways through time-lapse ground-penetrating radar surveys

2020 ◽  
Vol 726 ◽  
pp. 138511 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simone Di Prima ◽  
Thierry Winiarski ◽  
Rafael Angulo-Jaramillo ◽  
Ryan D. Stewart ◽  
Mirko Castellini ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ground Penetrating Radar ◽  
Preferential Flow ◽  
Time Lapse ◽  
Flow Pathways ◽  
Preferential Flow Pathways ◽  
Ground Penetrating

scholarly journals Phosphorus in Preferential Flow Pathways of Forest Soils in Germany

Forests ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorit Julich ◽  
Stefan Julich ◽  
Karl-Heinz Feger
Keyword(s):  
Forest Soils ◽  
Preferential Flow ◽  
Flow Pathways ◽  
Preferential Flow Pathways

Leaching patterns in soil under pasture and crop

Soil Research ◽  
1982 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 193 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Kanchanasut ◽  
DR Scotter
Keyword(s):  
Preferential Flow ◽  
Unsaturated Flow ◽  
Soil Depth ◽  
Vegetative Cover ◽  
Natural Rainfall ◽  
Soil Structures ◽  
Stem Flow ◽  
Flow Pathways ◽  
Preferential Flow Pathways ◽  
Log Normal

The distribution of surface-applied bromide, after leaching with 50 mm of ponded water, was measured in soil profiles under long-term pasture and under an oat crop. Also measured was the bromide distribution under pasture after leaching with natural rainfall. The method of water application, the vegetative cover, and the soil structure interacted to produce quite different leaching patterns. However, in all experiments the highest bromide concentrations after leaching were in the top 20 mm of soil. It is suggested that the vegetation, by inducing preferential flow pathways, retarded the leaching of bromide from the soil near the surface. Also rainfall on pasture apparently was subject to interception and stem-flow, which caused less effective leaching from the topsoil than would have occurred under fallow. Rainfall did, however, leach more efficiently than ponded water, probably as it induced largely unsaturated flow. But, even after 182 mm of rain in excess of evapotranspiration, 10% of the applied bromide was still recoverable from the top 50 mm of soil under pasture. Different soil structures under cropping and pasture affected the leaching patterns with ponded water. A compacted layer at 100-140 mm depth in the cropped soil apparently throttled infiltration, resulting in unsaturated flow, and hence more uniform miscible displacement below than above it. In all cases the bromide concentration at any soil depth was highly variable, with replicates tending toward a log-normal rather than normal frequency distribution.

scholarly journals The Hydropedograph Toolbox and its application

2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (12) ◽  
pp. 14231-14271
Author(s):  
C. B. Graham ◽  
H. S. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Soil Moisture ◽  
Preferential Flow ◽  
Hydraulic Redistribution ◽  
Water Release ◽  
Consistent Manner ◽  
Comparative Hydrology ◽  
Release Curve ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shale Hills

Abstract. The Hydropedograph Toolbox has been developed to provide a set of standardized tools for analyzing soil moisture time series in an efficient and consistent manner. This toolbox contains various modules that permit the exploration and visualization of key soil hydrological parameters and processes using multi-depth real-time soil moisture monitoring datasets. This includes statistical summary, soil water release curve, preferential flow occurrence, hydraulic redistribution, and the relationship between soil moisture and soil temperature. After describing this toolbox, this paper demonstrates the utility of this toolbox in a case study from the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory in USA. The case study illustrates the topographic impacts on soil moisture dynamics along a hillslope transect, and quantifies the frequency of the occurrence of preferential flow, diel fluxes of water, and seasonal storage dynamics. It is expected that such a toolbox, with continued enhancements in the future and wide applications across diverse landscapes, can facilitate the advancement of comparative hydrology and hydropedology.

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