Field method for separating the contribution of surface-connected preferential flow pathways from flow through the soil matrix

Water Resources Research

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Sanders, Emily C ^a   Abou Najm, Majdi R ^b,c,d   Mohtar, Rabi H ^a,e   Kladivko, Eileen ^a   Schulze, Darrell ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

^e HAMAD BIN KHALIFA UNIVERSITY   (Qatar)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATIONS; FIELD METHODS; FLOWTHROUGH; INITIAL MOISTURE CONTENT; INTAKE RATE; MACRO-POROSITY; MACROPORES; MOISTURE STATE; NATURAL SOILS; NO-TILL; PREFERENTIAL FLOWS; SILTY CLAY LOAM; SOIL CONDITIONS; SOIL MATRICES;

LATEXES; SOIL MOISTURE;

GROUNDWATER FLOW;

CROP ROTATION; FIELD METHOD; INFILTRATION; MATRIX; MOISTURE CONTENT; PREFERENTIAL FLOW; SOIL MOISTURE; SOIL TYPE; SOYBEAN;

GLYCINE MAX; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 84861379625     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011WR011103     Document Type: Article

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