Spatial Variability and Measurement Scale of Infiltration Rate on an Agricultural Landscape
Nathan W. Hawsa,d,
Bingwu Liub,e,
C. W. Boastc,
P. S. C. Raoa,*,
E. J. Kladivkob and
D. P. Franzmeierb
a School of Civil Engineering, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN 47907-2051
b Dep. of Agronomy, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN 47907
c Dep. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana, IL 61801
d Currently at Dep. of Geography and Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins Univ., Baltimore, MD 21218-2686
e Currently at National Lab of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil & Water Conservation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yangling, Shaanxi 712100, China

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Fig. 1. Elevation profile of the study transect, showing the location of the pedon description sites and the position of the hillslope transect (labeled H.T.). Note the exaggeration of the vertical scale.
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Fig. 2. Semivariograms (Ln-transformed) for local-scale infiltration measurement data for Drummer (top), Brenton (middle), and Dana (bottom) soils at their three respective horizons.
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Fig. 3. Sample variance vs. total measurement support area for the local-scale study.
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Fig. 4. Cumulative probability plots (actual and Ln-transformed) for the hillslope and landscape transect infiltration measurements.
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Fig. 5. Semivariograms (Ln-transformed) for (top) hillslope-scale and (bottom) landscape-scale infiltration measurement data.
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