SSSAJ Grow Your Career with SSSA
HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
QUICK SEARCH:   [advanced]


     

Published in Soil Sci Soc Am J 42:396-400 (1978)
© 1978 Soil Science Society of America
677 S. Segoe Rd., Madison, WI 53711 USA
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrow reprints & permissions
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lomen, D. O.
Right arrow Articles by Warrick, A. W.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow Articles by Lomen, D. O.
Right arrow Articles by Warrick, A. W.
Agricola
Right arrow Articles by Lomen, D. O.
Right arrow Articles by Warrick, A. W.

Linearized Moisture Flow with Loss at the Soil Surface1

D. O. Lomen and A. W. Warrick2

ABSTRACT

The general solution of a linearized moisture flow equation is derived for point and line sources whether buried or on the soil surface. The surface flux is taken to be proportional to the matric flux potential, which is consistent with the physical situation of small evaporative losses for dry soil and larger losses for wet soil. The fraction of water lost at the surface turns out to be identical for point and line sources and for the steady-state case is [m/(2 + m)] exp(–ad) where m is the surface flux proportionality constant, d the depth of source, and {alpha} a constant from the assumed unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function. This fraction is plotted as a function of time for a fixed source depth. Also given are curves depicting the total water loss as a function of source depth. A generalized solution is derived for any type of source located in a horizontal plane.

NOTES

1 Arizona Agric. Exp. Stn. Paper no. 2767. Support was from Western Regional Project W-128 and funds provided by the U. S. Dep. of the Interior, Office of Water Resour. Res., as authorized under the Water Resour. Res. Act of 1964, Projects B-045-ARIZ and B-064-ARIZ.

2 Professor, Department of Mathematics; and Professor, Department of Soils, Water and Engineering, respectively, The Univ. of Ariz., Tucson, AZ 85721.

Received for publication July 18, 1977. Accepted for publication February 13, 1978.






HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS
The SCI Journals Agronomy Journal Crop Science
Vadose Zone Journal Journal of Plant Registrations
Journal of Natural Resources
and Life Sciences Education		 Journal of
Environmental Quality
Copyright © 1978 by the Soil Science Society of America.