The vadose zone water balance and transpiration rates of vegetation

Biodegradation in the Vadose Zone

Water balance , transpiration and canopy conductance in two beech stands

Measurements of sap flow, vapour fluxes, throughfall and soil water content were conducted for 19 months in a young beech stand growing at low elevation, in the Hesse forest. This experiment is part of the Euroflux network, covering 15 representative European forests. Study of the radial variation of sap flow within tree trunks, showed a general pattern of sap flux density in relation to the de...

An Improved Dual-Permeability Model of Water Flow and Solute Transport in the Vadose Zone

onstrated under field conditions (e.g., Flury, 1996; Jarvis, 2002). We introduce an improved, one-dimensional, non-steady-state dualIn recent years, our knowledge of the mechanisms that permeability model (MACRO 5.1). The model simulates water flow generate and sustain preferential movement of water and solute transport in the vadose zone of structured soils by coupling and solutes has been inc...

Effect of vadose zone on the steady-state leakage rates from landfill barrier systems.

Leakage rates are evaluated for a landfill barrier system having a compacted clay liner (CCL) underlain by a vadose zone of variable thickness. A numerical unsaturated flow model SEEP/W is used to simulate the moisture flow regime and steady-state leakage rates for the cases of unsaturated zones with different soil types and thicknesses. The results of the simulations demonstrate that harmonic ...

Numerical Analysis of Coupled Water, Vapor, and Heat Transport in the Vadose Zone

Vapor movement is often an important part in the total water flux in the vadose zone of arid or semiarid regions because the soil moisture is relatively low. The twomajor objectives of this study were to develop a numerical model in the HYDRUS-1D code that (i) solves the coupled equations governing liquid water, water vapor, and heat transport, together with the surface water and energy balance...