Quantifying minimum monolith size and solute dilution from multi-compartment percolation sampler data

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1086-1092

  De Rooij, Gerrit H ^a   Cirpka, Olaf A ^b   Stagnitti, Frank ^c   Vuurens, Saskia H ^a   Boll, Jan ^d  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^c School of Ecology and Environment   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAKTHROUGH CURVE; CONVECTION; DISPERSION; LEACHING; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SAMPLER; SOLUTE TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TRACER;

EID: 34547863107     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2005.0101     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Abramowitz, M., and I.A. Stegun (ed.) 1964. Handbook of mathematical functions. With formulas, graphs, and mathematical tables. Vol. 55. Natl. Bur. Standards, Applied Math. Div., U.S. Gov. Print. Office, Washington, DC.
2. Boll, J., J.S. Selker, G. Shalit, and T.S. Steenhuis. 1997. Frequency distribution of water and solute transport properties derived from pan sampler data. Water Resour. Res. 33(12):2655-2664.
3. Cirpka, O.A., and P.K. Kitanidis. 2002. Numerical evaluation of solute dispersion and dilution in unsaturated heterogeneous media. Water Resour. Res. 38(11):1220 doi:10.1029/2001WR001262.
4. Dagan, G., and E. Bresler. 1979. Solute dispersion in unsaturated heterogeneous soil at field scale. I. Theory. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 43(3):461-467.
5. de Rooij, G.H. 1996. Preferential flow in water-repellent sandy soils - Model development and lysimeter experiments. Ph.D. diss. Wageningen Agric. Univ., the Netherlands.
6. de Rooij, G.H., and F. Stagnitti. 2000. Spatial variability of solute leaching: Experimental validation of a quantitative parameterization. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 64(2):499-504.
7. de Rooij, G.H., and F. Stagnitti. 2002. Spatial and temporal distribution of solute leaching in heterogeneous soils: Analysis and application to multisampler lysimeter data. J. Contam. Hydrol. 54(3-4):329-346.
8. de Rooij, G.H., and F. Stagnitti. 2004. Applications of the Beta distribution in soil science. p. 535-550. In A.K. Gupta and S. Nadarajah (ed.) Handbook of Beta distribution and its applications. Marcel Dekker, New York.
9. Gupta, A., and S. Nadarajah. 2004. Mathematical properties of the Beta distribution. p. 33-53. In A.K. Gupta and S. Nadarajah (ed.) Handbook of Beta distribution and its applications. Marcel Dekker, New York.
10. Janssen, G., O.A. Cirpka, and S.E.A.T.M. van der Zee. 2006. Stochastic analysis of nonlinear biodegradation in regimes controlled by both chromatographic and dispersive mixing. Water Resour. Res. 42(1):W01417 doi:10.1029/2005WR004042.
11. Jury, W.A., and K. Roth. 1990. Transfer functions and solute movement through soil. Theory and applications. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, Switzerland.
12. Kapoor, V., and P. Kitanidis. 1998. Concentration fluctuations and dilution in aquifers. Water Resour. Res. 34(5):1181-1193.
13. Kapur, J.N. 1989. Maximum-entropy models in science and engineering. John Wiley & Sons, New York.
14. Kitanidis, P.K. 1994. The concept of the dilution index. Water Resour. Res. 30(7):2011-2026.
15. Kreft, A., and A. Zuber. 1978. On the physical meaning of the dispersion equation and its solutions for different initial and boundary conditions. Chem. Eng. Sci. 33(11):1471-1480.
16. Kung, K.-J.S. 1990a. Preferential flow in a sandy vadose zone: 1. Field observation. Geoderma 46(1-3):51-58.
17. Kung, K.-J.S. 1990b. Preferential flow in a sandy vadose zone: 2. Mechanism and implications. Geoderma 46(1-3):59-71.
18. Lennartz, B., and S.K. Kamra. 1998. Temporal variability of solute transport under vadose zone conditions. Hydrol. Processes 12(12):1939-1949.
19. Mallants, D., M. Vanclooster, and J. Feyen. 1996. Transect study on solute transport in a macroporous soil. Hydrol. Processes 10(5):55-70.
20. Mallants, D., M. Vanclooster, M. Meddahi, and J. Feyen. 1994. Estimating solute transport in undisturbed soil columns using time-domain reflectometry. J. Contam. Hydrol. 17(2):91-109.
21. Poletika, N.N., and W.A. Jury. 1994. Effects of soil surface management on water flow distribution and solute dispersion. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 58(4):999-1006.
22. Quisenberry, V.L., R.E. Phillips, and J.M. Zeleznik. 1994. Spatial distribution of water and chloride macropore flow in a well-structured soil. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 58(5):1294-1300.
23. Sassner, M., K.H. Jensen, and G. Destouni. 1994. Chloride migration in heterogeneous soil. 1. Experimental methodology and results. Water Resour. Res. 30(3):735-745.
24. Simmons, C.S. 1982. A stochastic-convective transport representation of dispersion on one-dimensional porous systems. Water Resour. Res. 18(4):1193-1214.
25. Stagnitti, F., L. Li, G. Allinson, I. Phillips, D. Lockington, A. Zeiliguer, M. Allinson, J. Lloyd-Smith, and M. Xie. 1999. A mathematical model for estimating the extent of solute- and water-flux heterogeneity in multiple sample percolation experiments. J. Hydrol. 215(1-4):59-69.
26. Stagnitti, F., J. Sherwood, G. Allinson, L. Evans, M. Allinson, L. Li, and I. Phillips. 1998. An investigation of localised soil heterogeneities on solute transport using a multisegment percolation system. N.Z. J. Agric. Res. 41(4):603-612.
27. Strock, J.S., D.K. Cassel, and K.L. Gumpertz. 2001. Spatial variability of water and bromide transport through variably saturated soil blocks. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 65(6):1607-1617.
28. Ursino, N., T. Gimmi, and H. Flühler. 2001. Dilution of non-reactive tracers in variably saturated sandy structures. Adv. Water Resour. 24(8):877-885.
29. van Es, H.M. 2002. Soil sampling and statistical procedures: Soil variability. p. 1-13. In J.H. Dane and G.C. Topp (ed.) Methods of soil analysis. Part 4. Physical methods. SSSA Book Ser. 5. SSSA, Madison, WI.