The E ff ect of Various Soil Hydraulic Property Es mates on Soil Moisture Simula ons
The E ff ect of Various Soil Hydraulic Property Es mates on Soil Moisture Simula ons
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各种土壤水力特性估算对土壤湿度模拟的影响
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2009
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J. McNamara
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M. Gribb;I. Forkutsa;Aleshia Hansen;D. Chandler;J. McNamara
321 H based on one-dimensional simulations of the vadose zone are routinely used to predict or study fl uxes of moisture, solutes, and energy at fi eld and watershed scales. For the results of these models to be useful, suffi ciently accurate soil hydraulic property inputs, namely the soil moisture retention and hydraulic conductivity curves, θ(h) and K(h), are needed. Th ese properties can be estimated from laboratory and fi eld experiments using direct measurements or inverse solution methods. Th ese methods can be time consuming and expensive (Dane and Topp, 2002), however, and laboratory tests on small samples often don’t refl ect fi eld behavior (Basile et al., 2003). Alternatively, PTFs allow users to estimate soil hydraulic properties from limited information such as soil texture, bulk density, and organic C quickly and cheaply (Wösten et al., 2001; Pachepsky et al., 1996). Unfortunately, PTFs can yield results that do not adequately refl ect fi eld behavior. Despite the shortcomings of laboratory tests and PTFs, many vadose zone modeling eff orts rely on them because in situ measurements of soil hydraulic properties are typically not available. When such information is available, however, we can investigate how well these estimates of the soil hydraulic properties from laboratory tests and PTFs compare with in situ data and how the in situ information can be used to improve these estimates. In this study, we investigated the eff ects of using the soil hydraulic properties obtained by diff ering measurement and estimation techniques on one-dimensional model predictions of soil moisture content in a small instrumented area within the Dry Creek Experimental Watershed, a nonagricultural, mountainous site near Boise, ID. Th e soil hydraulic properties were estimated from in situ measurements, laboratory MSO tests, four PTFs, and fi nally, by inversion of fi eld pressure head and moisture content data from two short infi ltration events using HYDRUS-1D (Šimůnek et al., 2005). Th e soil moisture retention curves resulting from these methods were compared with the curves derived from in situ data to determine how well the estimates refl ect fi eld behavior. Th ree scaling approaches were used in an attempt to improve the fi t of the various estimated and predicted retention curves to the in situ data. Th e diff erent hydraulic parameter sets were then used as inputs for HYDRUS-1D to determine the eff ects of diff erent hydraulic property inputs on predictions of soil moisture at two depths and cumulative water fl ux out of the bottom of the soil profi le for an extended simulation period. The Eff ect of Various Soil Hydraulic Property Es mates on Soil Moisture Simula ons