Diurnal pattern of the drying front in desert and its application for determining the effective infiltration

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 703-714

  Zeng, Y ^a,b   Su, Z ^b   Wan, L ^a   Yang, Z ^a   Zhang, T ^c   Tian, H ^c   Shi, X ^c   Wang, X ^a   Cao, W ^a  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c Chinese Academy of Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DESERT; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; HEAT TRANSFER; INFILTRATION; LAKE; MICROMETEOROLOGY; PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL WATER; SPATIAL VARIATION; VADOSE ZONE; WATER BUDGET; WATER FLOW;

BADANJILIN DESERT; CHINA;

EID: 74349090262     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-13-703-2009     Document Type: Article

References (52)

1. Bonacci, O., Jukic, D., and Ljubenkov, I.: Definition of catchment area in karst: case of the rivers Krcic and Krka, Croatia, Hydrolog. Sci. J., 51, 682-699, 2006.
2. Brutsaert, W.: Evaporation into the atmosphere: Theory, history, and applications, D. Reidel Publ., Dordrecht, the Netherlands, 299 pp., 1982.
3. Camillo, P. J. and Gurney, R. J.: Resistance Parameter for Bare-Soil Evaporation Models, Soil Science SOSCAK, 141, 95-105, 1986.
4. Chen, J. S., Li, L., Wang, J. Y., Barry, D. A., Sheng, X. F., Gu, W. Z., Zhao, X., and Chen, L.: Water resources - Groundwater maintains dune landscape, Nature, 432, 459-460, 2004.
5. Dong, Z. B., Wang, T., and Wang, X. M.: Geomorphology of the megadunes in the Badain Jaran desert, Geomorphology, 60, 191-203, 2004.
6. Fares, A. and Polyakov, V.: Advances in crop water management using capacitive water sensors, Adv. Agron., 90, 43-77, 2006.
7. Fares, A., Hamdhani, H., and Jenkins, D. M.: Temperaturedependent scaled frequency: Improved accuracy of multisensor capacitance probes, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 71, 894-900, 2007.
8. Gates, J. B., Edmunds,W. M., and Ma, J. Z.: Groundwater recharge rates to the Badain Jaran Desert: preliminary results from environmental tracer studies, the 34th congress of international association of hydrogeologists, Beijing, China, 9-13 October 2006, 311, 2006.
9. Gates, J. B., Edmunds,W. M., and Ma, J. Z.: Estimating groundwater recharge in a cold desert environment in northern China using chloride, Hydrogeol. J., 16, 893-910, 2008a.
10. Gates, J. B., Bohlke, J. k., Edmunds, W. M.: Ecohydrological factors affecting nitrate concentrations in a phreatic desert aquifer in northwestern China, Environ. Sci. Technol., 42, 3531-3537, 2008b.
11. Geiger, S. L. and Durnford, D. S.: Infiltration in homogeneous sands and a mechanistic model of unstable flow, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 64, 460-469, 2000.
12. Geyh, M. A., Gu, W. Z., and Jakel, D.: Groundwater recharge study in the Gobi Desert, China, Geowissenschaften, 14, 279-280, 1996.
13. Ghildyal, B. P. and Tripathi, R. P.: Soil Physics, Rajkamal Electric Press, India, 1-656, 1987.
14. Gu, W. Z., Seiler, K. P., Stichler, W., and Lu, J. J.: Groundwater recharge in the badain jaran shamo, inner mongolia, PR China, the 34th congress of international association of hydrogeologists, Beijing, China, 9-13 October 2006, 507 pp., 2006.
15. Hofmann, J.: Lakes in the SE part of Badain Jaran Shamo, their limnology and geochemistry, Geowissenschaften, 14, 275-278, 1996.
16. Hofmann, J.: Geo-ecological investigations of the waters in the south-eastern Badain Jaran Desert, in: Status und sp̈atquarẗare Geẅasserentwicklung, Berliner Geogr. Abh. 64, Habilitationsschrift, Berlin, 1-164, 1999
17. Jakel, D.: The Badain Jaran Desert: its origin and development, Geowissenschaften, 14, 272-274, 1996.
18. Li, S. Z., Xiao, H. L., Cheng, G. D., Luo, F., and Liu, L. C.: Mechanical disturbance of microbiotic crusts affects ecohydrological processes in a region of revegetation-fixed sand dunes, Arid Land Res. Manag., 20, 61-77, 2006.
19. Lu, N., and Likos, W. J.: Unsaturated soil mechanics, John Wiley& Sons, Inc., Hoboken, USA, 584 pp., 2004.
20. Ma, J. Z., Li, D., Zhang, J. W., Edmunds, W. M., and Prudhomme, C.: Groundwater recharge and climatic change during the last 1000 years from unsaturated zone of SE Badain Jaran Desert, Chinese Sci. Bull., 48, 1469-1474, 2003.
21. Ma, J. Z., and Edmunds, W. M.: Groundwater and lake evolution in the Badain Jaran desert ecosystem, Inner Mongolia, Hydrogeol. J., 14, 1231-1243, 2006.
22. Melone, F., Corradini, C., Morbidelli, R., and Saltalippi, C.: Laboratory experimental check of a conceptual model for infiltration under complex rainfall patterns, Hydrol. Process., 20, 439-452, 2006.
23. Mitkov, I., Tartakovsky, D. M., and Winter, C. L.: Dynamics of wetting fronts in porous media, Phys. Rev. E, 58, R5245-R5248, 1998.
24. Noborio, K., McInnes, K. J., and Heilman, J. L.: Measurements of cumulative infiltration and wetting front location by time domain reflectometry, Soil Sci., 161, 480-483, 1996.
25. NJHRI: Specification of soil test (SL 237-1999), China Water Power press, Beijing, China, 757 pp., 1999
26. Philip, J. R. and De Vries, V. D.: Moisture movement in porous materials under temperature gradient, Trans. Am. Geophys. Union, 38, 222-232, 1957.
27. Polyakov, V., Fares, A., and Ryder, M. H.: Calibration of a capacitance system for measuring water content of tropical soil, Vadose Zone Journal, 4, 1004-1010, 2005.
28. Saito, H., Simunek, J., and Mohanty, B. P.: Numerical analysis of coupled water, vapor, and heat transport in the vadose zone, Vadose Zone Journal, 5, 784-800, 2006. (Pubitemid 47253997)
29. Scanlon, B. R., Keese, K., Reedy, R. C., Simunek, J., and Andraski, B. J.: Variations in flow and transport in thick desert vadose zones in response to paleoclimatic forcing (0-90 kyr): Field measurements, modeling, and uncertainties, Water Resour. Res., 39(7), 1179, doi:10.1029/2002WR001604, 2003
30. Hukseflux Themal Sensors.: Soil temperature profile sensor user manual (version 0606), Delft, the Netherlands, available at: http: //www.hukseflux.com/ , 2007.
31. Sentek Pty. Ltd.: Calibration of Sentek Pty Ltd soil moisture sensors, Stepney, SA, Australia, available at: http://www.sentek.com.au/home/default.asp, 2001.
32. Shigeru, O., Yosuke, K., and Ayumi, Y.: Studies on the infiltrationdischarge of rain water and translation penomena in soil, J. Hydrol., 132, 1-23, 1992.
33. Golden Software: Surfer Reference Manual. Version, 4 edn., Golden, CO., http://www.goldensoftware.com/, 1990.
34. Tami, D., Rahardjo, H., and Leong, E. C.: Effects of hysteresis on steady-state infiltration in unsaturated slopes, J. Geotech. Geoenviron., 130, 956-967, 2004.
35. Timlin, D. and Pachepsky, Y.: Infiltration measurement using a vertical time-domain reflectometry probe and a reflection simulation model, Soil Sci., 167, 1-8, 2002.
36. Topp, G. C., Davis, J. L., and Annan, A. P.: Electromagnetic determination of soil water content using TDR: I. applications to wetting fronts and steep gradients, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 46, 672-678, 1982.
37. Van Bavel, C. H. M. and Hillel, D. I.: Calculating potential and actual evaporation from a bare soil surface by simulation of concurrent flow of water and heat, Agric. For. Meteorol. J., 17, 453-476, 1976.
38. van Genuchten, M. T.: A closed-form equation for predicting the hydraulic conductivity of unsaturated soils, Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J, 44, 892-898, 1980.
39. Walker, A. S., Olsen, J. W., and Bagen: The Badain Jaran Desert: Remote sensing investigations, Geogr. J., 153, 205-210, 1987.
40. Walvoord, M. A., Plummer, M. A., Phillips, F. M., and Wolfsberg, A. V.: Deep arid system hydrodynamics, 1. Equilibrium states and response times in thick desert vadose zones, Water Resour. Res, 8(12), 1308, doi:10.1029/ 2001WR000824, 2002.
41. Wang, G. X. and Cheng, G. D.: Water resource development and its influence on the environment in arid areas of China - the case of the Hei River basin, J. Arid. Environ., 43, 121-131, 1999.
42. Wang, X. P., Li, X. R., Xiao, H. L., Berndtsson, R., and Pan, Y. X.: Effects of surface characteristics on infiltration patterns in an arid shrub desert, Hydrol. Process., 21, 72-79, 2007.
43. Wang, X. P., Cui, Y., Pan, Y. X., Li, X. R., Yu, Z., and Young, M. H.: Effects of rainfall characteristics on infiltration and redistribution patterns in revegetation-stabilized desert ecosystems, J. Hydrol., 358, 134-143, 2008.
44. Wu, J. Q., Zhang, R. D., and Yang, J. Z.: Estimating infiltration recharge using a response function model, J. Hydrol., 198, 124-139, 1997.
45. Yang, H., Rahardjo, H., Wibawa, B., and Leong, E. C.: A soil column apparatus for laboratory infiltration study, Geotech. Test. J., 27, 347-355, 2004.
46. Yang, H., Rahardjo, H., and Leong, E. C.: Behavior of unsaturated layered soil columns during infiltration, J. Hydrol. Eng., 11, 329-337, 2006.
47. Yang, X. P.: Landscape evolution and palaeoclimate in the deserts of northwestern China, with a special reference to Badain Jaran and Taklamakan, Chinese Sci. Bull., 46, 6-11, 2001.
48. Yang, X. P., Liu, T. S., and Xiao, H. L.: Evolution of megadunes and lakes in the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China during the last 31 000 years, Quatern. Int., 104, 99-112, 2003a.
49. Yang, X. P. and Williams, M. A. J.: The ion chemistry of lakes and late Holocene desiccation in the Badain Jaran Desert, Inner Mongolia, China, Catena, 51, 45-60, 2003b.
50. Yang, X. P.: Chemistry and late Quaternary evolution of ground and surface waters in the area of Yabulai Mountains, western Inner Mongolia, China, Catena, 66, 135-144, 2006.
51. Zeng, Y., Wan, L., Su, Z., Saito, H., Huang, K., and Wang, X.: Dirnal soil water dynamics in the shallow vadose zone, Environ. Geol., doi:10.1007/s00254-008-1485-8, 2008.
52. Zhang, H. C. and Ming, Q. Z.: Hydrology and Lake Evolution in Hyperarid Northwestern China and the Mystery of Megadune Formation in Badain Jaran Desert, Advances in Earth Science, 21, 532-538, 2006 (in Chinese).