hysteresis has been widely recognized in the soil water relationship. in this paper, a detailed review of hysteresis was performed in relation to its models. so far, different models have been suggested to describe hysteresis in the water retention curve (wrc) that could be categorized into two main groups: conceptual and empirical models. the models in the first group are based on the domain t...

Brutsaert (1979, 1982) suggested a method for the complementary model taking atmospheric stability into account on the basis of the Monin-Obukhov similarity theory. Katul and Parlange (1992a, 1992b) and the authors (1993) independent ly published the papers on the estimation of latent and sensible heat fluxes including the effects of the atmospheric stabil ity. Parlange and Katul (1992c) actual...

Hysteresis has been widely recognized in the soil water relationship. In this paper, a detailed review of hysteresis was performed in relation to its models. So far, different models have been suggested to describe hysteresis in the water retention curve (WRC) that could be categorized into two main groups: conceptual and empirical models. The models in the first group are based on the domain t...

The porous medium model of Green and Ampt, describing flow in porous media, appeared earlier than the capillary model of Washburn, although both lead to mathematically identical models. Here, the model of Green and Ampt was related to the Washburn model by an examination of the parameters involved in each. Fries et al. [N. Fries, M. Dreyer, J. Colloid Interface Sci. 320 (2008) 259-263] presente...

The relationship between precipitation and large-scale measures of atmospheric circulation has received much attention in recent years (e.g. Bardossy & Caspary, 1990; Bardossy & Plate, 1992; Hughes et al., 1993; Woolhiser et al., 1993; Katz & Parlange, 1993). Some of the interest relates to quantifying the possible change in atmospheric circulation within the past two decades, with associated c...

We investigate the formation of fingered flow in dry granular media under simulated rainfall using a quasi-two-dimensional experimental setup composed of a random close packing of monodisperse glass beads. Using controlled experiments, we analyze the finger instabilities that develop from the wetting front as a function of fundamental granular (particle size) and fluid properties (rainfall, vis...

s from Special Section of Water Resources Research Jean Yves Parlange and Wilfried Brutsaert, May 2012 at the Symposium held May 14-15, 2012, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA (Photo Robert Cooke) Water Resources Special Section Hard-bound copy of the full collection of articles available upon request ([email protected])