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Effects of rainfall intensity on rainfall infiltration and redistribution in soil on Loess slope land

LI Yi1,2; SHAO Ming’an2   

  1. 1College of Water Resources and Architecture Engineering, Northwest Sci-Tech University for Agriculture and Forestry, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China;
    2State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, China Academy of Sciences &
    Ministry of Water Resources, Yangling 712100, Shaanxi, China
  • Received:2005-12-21 Revised:2006-10-10 Online:2006-12-18 Published:2006-12-18

Abstract: With simulation test, this paper studied the patterns of rainfall infiltration and redistribution in soil on typical Loess slope land, and analyzed the quantitative relations between the infiltration and redistribution and the movement of soil water and mass, with rainfall intensity as the main affecting factor. The results showed that rainfall intensity had significant effects on the rainfall infiltration and water redistribution in soil, and the microcosmic movement of soil water. The larger the rainfall intensity, the deeper the wetting front of rainfall infiltration and redistribution was, and the wetting front of soil water redistribution had a slower increase velocity than that of rainfall infiltration. The power function of the wetting front with time, and also with rainfall intensity, was fitted well. There was also a quantitative relation between the wetting front of rainfall redistribution and the duration of rainfall. The larger the rainfall intensity, the higher the initial and steady infiltration rates were, and the cumulative infiltration increased faster with time. Moreover, the larger the rainfall intensity, the smaller the wetting front difference was at the top and the end of the slope. With the larger rainfall intensity, both the difference of soil water content and its descending trend between soil layers became more obvious during the redistribution process on slope land.

Key words: Poplar, Clone, Phosphorus efficiency, Rhizosphere acidification, Available phosphorus in rhizo-sphcre