EJPAU 2007. Spychalski M. , Kaźmierowski C. , Kaczmarek Z. ESTIMATION OF SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ON THE BASIS OF DRAINAGE POROSITY

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2007
Volume 10
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Spychalski M. , Kaźmierowski C. , Kaczmarek Z. 2007. ESTIMATION OF SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ON THE BASIS OF DRAINAGE POROSITY, EJPAU 10(1), #04.
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ESTIMATION OF SATURATED HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY ON THE BASIS OF DRAINAGE POROSITY

Marek Spychalski¹, Cezary Kaźmierowski², Zbigniew Kaczmarek³
¹ Department of Soil Science and Land Reclamation, Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland
² Department of Soil Science and Remote Sensing of Soils, UAM, Poznan, Poland
³ Department of Soil Science, Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland

ABSTRACT

The paper presents relations between drainage porosity (n_d) and the saturated hydraulic conductivity (K_s). The undisturbed soil samples were characterised by the saturated hydraulic conductivity, water retention curve (WRC) and estimated sum of the soil macro and mesopores known as the drainage porosity. The latter sum was estimated from the pF curves as a difference between the total porosity (_t) and the field capacity (FC). Two equations describing these relationships were proposed and the coefficients of the power function of Ahuja et al. [1, 2] were modified. The equations proposed were tested on the original data set and on the independent selected UNSODA data set [23] and compared with other previously published pedotransfer functions (PTFs). The results of the comparative analysis have shown that for 0.03 < _d<0.30 m³ × m^-3, the equation proposed in this paper provides a more accurate assessment of the saturated hydraulic conductivity. It has been also shown that the relation derived is universal and does not depend on the soil texture.

Key words: saturated hydraulic conductivity, drainage porosity, pedotransfer function.

Marek Spychalski
Department of Soil Science and Land Reclamation,
Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland
Piatkowska 94, 61-691 Poznan, Poland
Phone: 61-846-6440
email: marspych@ au. poznan. pl

Cezary Kaźmierowski
Department of Soil Science and Remote Sensing of Soils,
UAM, Poznan, Poland
Dziegielowa 27, 61-680 Poznan, Poland

Zbigniew Kaczmarek
Department of Soil Science,
Agricultural University of Poznan, Poland
Mazowiecka 42, 60-623 Poznan, Poland

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