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Macropores and water flow in soils
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This paper reviews the importance of large continuous openings (macropores) on water flow in soils. The presence of macropores may lead to spatial concentrations of water flow through unsaturated soil that will not be described well by a Darcy approach to flow through porous media. This has important implications for the rapid movement of solutes and pollutants through soils. Difficulties in defining what constitutes a macropore and the limitations of current nomenclature are reviewed. The influence of macropores on infiltration and subsurface storm flow is discussed on the basis of both experimental evidence and theoretical studies. The limitations of models that treat macropores and matrix porosity as separate flow domains is stressed. Little‐understood areas are discussed as promising lines for future research. In particular, there is a need for a coherent theory of flow through structured soils that would make the macropore domain concept redundant.
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Water Flow in Soil Macropores II. A Combined Flow Model
SEVEN, K., & GERMANN, P. (1981) · Journal of Soil Science · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2389.1981.tb01682.x · Cited by 240
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Metadata
- Authors
- Beven, K., & Germann, P.
- Venue
- Water Resources Research
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 1982-10
- Volume
- 18
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1311-1325
- ISSN
- 0043-1397 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-7973
- OpenAlex
- W1980440523
- Cited by
- 2,679
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 105.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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