Modeling Groundwater-Soil-Plant-Atmosphere Exchanges in Fractured Porous Media

• Published in: Procedia environmental sciences Vol. 19; pp. 321 - 330
• Main Authors: Ireson, Andrew M., van der Kamp, Garth, Nachshon, Uri, Butler, Adrian P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 2013
• Subjects: chalk; climatic factors; England; Fractured porous media; glacial till; groundwater; macropores; porous media; prairies; preferential flow; Richards’ equation; simulation models; soil water; soil-plant-atmosphere; spatial distribution; England; Fractured porous media; preferential flow; Richards’ equation; soil-plant-atmosphere

Models for the soil-plant-atmosphere system, especially large scale models, frequently ignore interactions with underlying groundwater, and ignore fractures or macropores which may strongly influence the system response. Unsaturated fractured porous media can exhibit a range of behavior, depending o...