Deep water leakage from semi-mobile dunes in semi-arid regions and its response to rainfall patterns

doi:10.13287/j.1001-9332.202008.011

Abstract

Abstract: As the main source of soil moisture supply in desertified areas, rainfall has a profound impact on soil moisture changes and plays an important role in deep soil moisture replenishment. Based on the Hydrus-1D model with optimized parameters, we analyzed the dynamic change process of the leakage in the 200 cm deep layer of the semi-mobile dunes in Horqin Sandy Land and its response to the rainfall patterns. The results showed that the averaged leakage replenishment of semi-mobile dunes was 254.31 mm from April to October each year during 2016 to 2019, accoun-ting for 61.8% of the rainfall in the same period. Deep leakage mainly occurred from June to August, accounting for 72.8% of the total. The leakage rate was distributed between 0.03-2.70 mm·h^-1, with the maximum leakage rate occurring under heavy rainfall and frequent rainfall events. The deep soil water supplied by rainfall infiltration was affected by the amount of rainfall, rainfall intensity, duration of precipitation and soil moisture content in the earlier period. Precipitation events with long duration and small rainfall intensity were more conducive to deep water lea-kage, with a significant positive correlation between the leakage and rainfall (R²=0.85). 16-18 mm rainfall was the threshold for the leakage of 200 cm soil depth. The high-frequency rainfall event usually reached peak after 17-38 hours, with the entire leakage process being more than 164 hours. Accurate estimation of deep leakage has theoretical and practical significance for water resource assessment and ecological construction in desertified areas.

Key words: rainfall infiltration, Hydrus-1D, rainfall, frequency of rainfall, leakage supply coefficient

WANG Yu-xiang, LIU Ting-xi, DUAN Li-min, TONG Xin, WANG Guan-li, LI Dong-fang. Deep water leakage from semi-mobile dunes in semi-arid regions and its response to rainfall patterns[J]. Chinese Journal of Applied Ecology, 2020, 31(8): 2710-2720.

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