Subsurface flow paths in a chronosequence of  calcareous soils: impact of soil age and rainfall  intensities on preferential flow occurrence

Hartmann, Anne; Weiler, Markus; Greinwald, Konrad; Blume, Theresa

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4953-2022

Articles | Volume 26, issue 19

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4953-2022

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-26-4953-2022

© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 26, issue 19

Research article

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07 Oct 2022

Research article |

| 07 Oct 2022

Subsurface flow paths in a chronosequence of calcareous soils: impact of soil age and rainfall intensities on preferential flow occurrence

Anne Hartmann, Markus Weiler, Konrad Greinwald, and Theresa Blume

Data sets

Soil physical and hydraulic properties along two chronosequences of proglacial moraines A. Hartmann, M. Weiler, and T. Blume https://doi.org/10.5880/GFZ.4.4.2020.004

Model code and software

RVAideMemoire: testing and plotting procedures for biostatistics, R package version 0.9-69 M. Hervé https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RVAideMemoire

Short summary

Analyzing the impact of soil age and rainfall intensity on vertical subsurface flow paths in calcareous soils, with a special focus on preferential flow occurrence, shows how water flow paths are linked to the organization of evolving landscapes. The observed increase in preferential flow occurrence with increasing moraine age provides important but rare data for a proper representation of hydrological processes within the feedback cycle of the hydro-pedo-geomorphological system.