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Research article
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22 Oct 2019
Research article |
| 22 Oct 2019
| 22 Oct 2019
Simulating preferential soil water flow and tracer transport using the Lagrangian Soil Water and Solute Transport Model
Alexander Sternagel
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Institute of Water Resources and River Basin Management, Hydrology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Geomorphology and Soil Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Ralf Loritz
Institute of Water Resources and River Basin Management, Hydrology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Wolfgang Wilcke
Institute of Geography and Geoecology, Geomorphology and Soil Science, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Erwin Zehe
Institute of Water Resources and River Basin Management, Hydrology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Short summary
We present our hydrological LAST-Model to simulate preferential soil water flow and tracer transport in macroporous soils. It relies on a Lagrangian perspective of the movement of discrete water particles carrying tracer masses through the subsoil and is hence an alternative approach to common models. Sensitivity analyses reveal the physical validity of the model concept and evaluation tests show that LAST can depict well observed tracer mass profiles with fingerprints of preferential flow.
We present our hydrological LAST-Model to simulate preferential soil water flow and tracer...
