The processes of preferential flow in the unsaturated zone

JR Nimmo - Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Preferential flow, a major influence in unsaturated soil and rock almost everywhere, occurs
by multiple phenomenologically distinct hydraulic processes. For the mode known as …

Fill‐and‐spill: A process description of runoff generation at the scale of the beholder

JJ McDonnell, C Spence, DJ Karran… - Water Resources …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Descriptions of runoff generation processes continue to grow, hel** to reveal complexities
and hydrologic behavior across a wide range of environments and scales. But to date, there …

The T‐TEL method for assessing water, sediment, and chemical connectivity

G Ali, C Oswald, C Spence… - Water Resources …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of connectivity has been the subject of a great deal of recent research and
provided new insights and breakthroughs on runoff generation processes and watershed …

Rainfall-runoff characteristics and their threshold behaviors on a karst hillslope in a peak-cluster depression region

S Wang, Y Yan, Z Fu, H Chen - Journal of Hydrology, 2022 - Elsevier
Water balance characteristics and rainfall-runoff relationships of karst slope, are poorly
understood worldwide, even though karst landscapes occupy 10–15% the planet's land …

Effect of soil thickness on rainfall infiltration and runoff generation from karst hillslopes during rainstorms

J Zhang, H Chen, Z Fu, Z Luo, F Wang… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Knowledge of water movement from the hillslope critical zone is important for water
management. However, the runoff process resulting from extreme rainfall events remains …

Mechanisms of surface and subsurface runoff generation in subtropical soil-epikarst systems: Implications of rainfall simulation experiments on karst slope

S Wang, Z Fu, H Chen, Y Nie, Q Xu - Journal of Hydrology, 2020 - Elsevier
Southwest China receives abundant rainfall with a mean annual precipitation of 1450 mm
(1960–2013) but surface runoff is small, whereas subsurface runoff is relatively large on …

Beyond the SCS‐CN method: A theoretical framework for spatially lumped rainfall‐runoff response

MS Bartlett, AJ Parolari, JJ McDonnell… - Water Resources …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Since its introduction in 1954, the Soil Conservation Service curve number (SCS‐CN)
method has become the standard tool, in practice, for estimating an event‐based rainfall …

Does wetland location matter when managing wetlands for watershed‐scale flood and drought resilience?

AA Ameli, IF Creed - JAWRA Journal of the American Water …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Wetland protection and restoration strategies that are designed to promote hydrologic
resilience do not incorporate the location of wetlands relative to the main stream network …

Primary weathering rates, water transit times, and concentration‐discharge relations: A theoretical analysis for the critical zone

AA Ameli, K Beven, M Erlandsson… - Water Resources …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The permeability architecture of the critical zone exerts a major influence on the
hydrogeochemistry of the critical zone. Water flow path dynamics drive the spatiotemporal …

The exponential decline in saturated hydraulic conductivity with depth: a novel method for exploring its effect on water flow paths and transit time distribution

AA Ameli, JJ McDonnell, K Bishop - Hydrological Processes, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The strong vertical gradient in soil and subsoil saturated hydraulic conductivity is
characteristic feature of the hydrology of catchments. Despite the potential importance of …