Investigation and prediction of water infiltration process in cracked soils based on a full-scale model test

Y Luo, J Zhang, Z Zhou, Z Shen, L Chong, C Victor - Geoderma, 2021 - Elsevier
Desiccation cracks induce preferential flow in cracked soils, leading to water rapidly
infiltrating into deep soils and filling from bottom to top in the cracks, thus potentially result in …

[HTML][HTML] Modelling preferential flow induced by dynamic changes of desiccation cracks: A comparative numerical study

Y Luo, J Zhang, Z Zhou, C Victor - Geoderma, 2023 - Elsevier
Quantitative investigation on the preferential flow induced by desiccation cracks (PF-DC)
remains a great challenge due to the soil shrinking-swelling behavior. This work presents a …

Sodification and solodization processes: Pedogenesis or natural soil degradation?

J de Souza Oliveira Filho, CRP Junior… - Journal of South …, 2020 - Elsevier
Sodium-affected soils occur predominantly in arid and semi-arid regions. Sodification and
solodization are the two main pedogenetic processes in the formation and evolution of these …

Can structure data obtained from CT images substitute for parameters of a preferential flow model?

AS Lissy, S Sammartino, S Ruy - Geoderma, 2020 - Elsevier
Modeling preferential flow in soils is still a challenge for the scientific community working on
water resources. Indeed, it is an issue to determine the functional parameters of models …

Event‐based deep drainage and percolation dynamics in Vertosols and Chromosols

S Arnold, N Bulovic, N McIntyre, WK Finch… - Hydrological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The quantification of percolation processes and deep drainage rates in cracking clays is
challenging due to the existence of multiple flow pathways, including desiccation crack …

Modeling Tillage Effects on Plant-Available Water by Considering Changes in Soil Structure

S Samanta, D Bagnall, S Ale, CLS Morgan… - Journal of the …, 2024 - elibrary.asabe.org
Highlights No-tillage improved plant-available water (PAW) as compared to conventional
tillage, especially in dry years. Soil structure showed 4.5 times higher impact on PAW than …

Current insights into nonuniform flow across scales, processes, and applications

MA Najm, L Lassabatere, RD Stewart - Vadose Zone Journal, 2019 - escholarship.org
This introduction to the special section Nonuniform Flow across Vadose Zone Scales is a
brief summary of this special section's diverse contributions covering nonuniform flow across …

[CITATION][C] Temporal variability in water and nutrient movement through vertisols into agricultural tile drains in the northern Great Plains

V Kokulan, ML Macrae, GA Ali… - Journal of Soil …, 2021 - Soil and Water Conservation Society

Runoff Response and Nutrient Loading in Vertisolic Clay Soils of Near-Level Artificially Drained Southern Manitoban Landscapes

K Vivekananthan - 2020 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
The installation of tile drainage systems in Southern Manitoba has been accelerating over
the past two decades to improve crop production. Given current environmental and political …