Modelling of water flow through typical Bavarian soils: 2. Environmental deuterium transport

Autor: Willibald Stichler, Piotr Małoszewski, Stanisław Maciejewski, Christine Stumpp, Peter Trimborn, Dietmar Klotz
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2006
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Zdroj: Hydrol. Sci. J. 51, 298-313 (2006)
Popis: Seven experimental lysimeters were filled with different soil materials and used to study water flow and tracer transport through the unsaturated zone under natural atmospheric conditions during an eight year period (1984–1991). The study of soil characteristics and water flow was presented in Part 1. The present paper focuses on environmental deuterium transport. The concentrations of environmental deuterium were measured in both precipitation and the water outflowing from the lysimeters. Two model approaches were used to describe tracer transport. The numerical solution of water flow and two-phase mass transport equations, referred to here as the variable flow dispersion model (VFDM), can exactly simulate spatial and temporal distribution of flow and transport parameters. The fitting parameters of VFDM are the soil characteristics, the longitudinal dispersivity, the fraction of immobile water and the transfer constant between mobile and immobile water. However, the application of the VFDM for d...
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