Immobile Water Content and Mass Exchange Coefficient of a Field Soil
dc.contributor.author | Casey, F.X.M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Horton, Robert | |
dc.contributor.author | Logsdon, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Jaynes, Dan | |
dc.contributor.department | Agronomy | |
dc.date | 2018-02-19T06:51:29.000 | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-29T23:04:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-29T23:04:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1997 | |
dc.description.abstract | <p>Determining the preferential flow characteristics of a soil is important because agrichemicals can contaminate groundwater via preferential flow pathways. A model that predicts solute transport due to preferential flow is the mobile-immobile solute transport model, which partitions the total water content (θ, m<sup>3</sup> m<sup>−3</sup>) into a mobile fraction (θ<sub>m</sub>) and an immobile fraction (θ<sub>im</sub>). Recently, an in situ method was proposed for determining the mobile-immobile model parameters of θ<sub>im</sub> and mass exchange coefficient (α) between the fractions by using a tension infiltrometer to apply a series of four fluorobenzoate tracers. The objective of this study was to test the in situ technique at 47 sites along a transect in a ridge-till corn (<em>Zea mays</em> L.) field of Nicollet soil (fine-loamy, mixed, mesic Aquic Hapludoll). The immobile fraction (θ<sub>im</sub> /θ) ranged from 0.394 to 0.952 with a median of 0.622. The mass exchange coefficient ranged from 0.000237 to 0.00481 min<sup>−1</sup> with a median of 0.00123 min<sup>−1</sup>. These values are similar in magnitude and range to values reported by other investigators, and they follow the same relationships. The values of θ<sub>im</sub>/θ and α along the transect indicated no obvious spatial trends or spatial correlations. Significant linear correlations did exist between α and soil water flux, α and θ<sub>im</sub>, and θ and θ<sub>im</sub>.</p> | |
dc.description.comments | <p>This article is published as Casey, F. X. M., R. Horton, S. D. Logsdon, and D. B. Jaynes. "Immobile water content and mass exchange coefficient of a field soil." Soil Science Society of America Journal 61, no. 4 (1997): 1030-1036. Doi: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/sssaj1997.03615995006100040006x" target="_blank">10.2136/sssaj1997.03615995006100040006x</a></p> | |
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dc.identifier.uri | https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/handle/20.500.12876/4664 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
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dc.source.uri | 10.2136/sssaj1997.03615995006100040006x | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Agricultural Science | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Hydrology | |
dc.subject.disciplines | Soil Science | |
dc.title | Immobile Water Content and Mass Exchange Coefficient of a Field Soil | |
dc.type | article | |
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