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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5083-2021
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-5083-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
A scaling procedure for straightforward computation of sorptivity
Laurent Lassabatere
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR5023 LEHNA, 69518 Vaulx-en-Velin, France
Pierre-Emmanuel Peyneau
GERS-LEE, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR, 44344 Bouguenais, France
Deniz Yilmaz
Civil Engineering Department, Engineering Faculty, Munzur University, Tunceli, Turkey
Joseph Pollacco
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, 7640 Lincoln, New Zealand
Jesús Fernández-Gálvez
Department of Regional Geographic Analysis and Physical Geography, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain
Borja Latorre
Departamento de Suelo y Agua, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), P.O. Box 13034, 50080 Zaragoza, Spain
David Moret-Fernández
Departamento de Suelo y Agua, Estación Experimental de Aula Dei, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), P.O. Box 13034, 50080 Zaragoza, Spain
Simone Di Prima
Agricultural Department, University of Sassari, Viale Italia, 39, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Mehdi Rahmati
Department of Soil Science and Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences: Agrosphere (IBG-3), Jülich, Germany
Ryan D. Stewart
School of Plant and Environmental Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, United States
Majdi Abou Najm
Department of Land, Air and Water Resources, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, United States
Claude Hammecker
University of Montpellier, UMR LISAH, IRD, Montpellier, France
Rafael Angulo-Jaramillo
Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS, ENTPE, UMR5023 LEHNA, 69518 Vaulx-en-Velin, France
Model code and software
Scilab script for sorptivity L. Lassabatere https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4587160
Short summary
Soil sorptivity is a crucial parameter for the modeling of water infiltration into soils. The standard equation used to compute sorptivity from the soil water retention curve, the unsaturated hydraulic conductivity, and initial and final water contents may lead to erroneous estimates due to its complexity. This study proposes a new straightforward scaling procedure for estimations of sorptivity for four famous and commonly used hydraulic models.
Soil sorptivity is a crucial parameter for the modeling of water infiltration into soils. The...