Absence of preferential flow in the percolating waters of a coniferous forest soil

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 575-585

  Rawlins, B G ^a,b,d   Baird, A J ^a   Trudgill, S T ^c   Hornung, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Forest soil; Laboratory breakthrough experiments; Macropores; Preferential flow; Soil moisture characteristic

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CURVE FITTING; HYDROLOGY; MASS TRANSFER; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; PERCOLATION (FLUIDS); POROSITY; RAIN; WATER;

CONIFEROUS FOREST SOILS; FUNCTIONAL ADVECTION DISPERSION EQUATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW;

SOILS;

FLOW; POROUS MEDIUM; SOIL; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

FOREST SOIL; PERCOLATION; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SOLUTE TRANSPORT;

EID: 0031136283     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1085(199705)11:6<575::aid-hyp478>3.0.co;2-z     Document Type: Article

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