Understanding the fates of soil hydrological processes and nitrogen (N) is essential for optimizing the water and N in a dryland crop system with the goal of obtaining a maximum yield. Few investigations have addressed the dynamics of dryland N and its association with the soil hydrological process in a freeze-thawing agricultural area. With the daily monitoring of soil water content and acquis...

[1] This paper presents analysis of annual water balance variability, (1) regional (betweencatchment) variability and (2) between-year (interannual) variability and the symmetry between the two. This involved analysis of the annual water balance in terms of a two-stage partitioning, first, of annual precipitation into quick flow and soil wetting and, subsequently, of the resulting soil wetting ...

abstract the effect of land use type on soil functioning within an ecosystem can be assessed and monitored using soil quality attributes. such studies, which are carried out to create a balance between the biological production and the maintenance and improvement of land resource quality, provide a framework for land degradation control and also for identification of sustainable management. in ...

In view of the insufficiencies of existing research into soil water and heat movements in seasonally frozen soil regions, water–heat coupled movements in seasonally frozen soil were studied by using a numerical simulation method. On the basis of viscous flow theory for liquid water in porous media and the heat balance principle, one-dimensional seasonal frozen soil water–heat coupled movements ...

[1] In groundwater-dependent ecosystems, interactions between rainfall, water table fluctuations, and vegetation are exerted through the soil water content. The dynamics of soil moisture, in fact, are strongly coupled to fluctuations of the water table and, together, they control the overall ecosystem dynamics. We propose here a simple process-based stochastic model for the study of soil moistu...

[1] This paper presents a framework for studying regional water balance in which the physical processes are first described at the local instantaneous scale and then integrated to the annual, basin-wide scale. The integration treats the relative soil saturation (i.e., the soil moisture divided by the porosity) and precipitation intensities as stochastic variables in space and time. A statistica...

The goal of this work was to develop an easy-to-use and engaging irrigation scheduling tool for cotton which operates on a smartphone platform. The model which drives the Cotton SmartIrrigation App (Cotton App) is an interactive ET-based soil water balance model. The Cotton App uses meteorological data from weather station networks, soil parameters, crop phenology, crop coefficients, and irriga...

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1. The water regime in soil commonly approaches equilibrium of water potential with the insects living there. 2. Even under these conditions, non-equilibrium processes have a significant effect on water movement through the cuticle of soil insects. 3. Measurements of water potential on either side of the cuticle of Costelytra zealandica larvae showed that equilibrium is not reached while the in...