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    The vadose zone, also termed the unsaturated zone, is the part of Earth between the land surface and the top of the phreatic zone, the position at which...
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    water. The part above the water table is the vadose zone (also called unsaturated zone). The phreatic zone size, color, and depth may fluctuate with changes...
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  • Numerical Analysis of Coupled Water, Vapor, and Heat Transport in the Vadose Zone, Vadose Zone J. 5: 784-800. Perry, R.H. and Chilton, C.H., eds., Chemical Engineers'...
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  • The Vadose Zone Journal is a peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 2002 and published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Soil Science Society...
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    that is related to the Richards equation is the Finite water-content vadose zone flow method solution of the Soil Moisture Velocity Equation. In the case...
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  • generally be assumed to be close to hydrostatic. In the unsaturated ("vadose") zone, the pore pressure is determined by capillarity and is also referred...
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  • "Water percolation through the deep vadose zone and groundwater recharge: preliminary results based on a new vadose zone monitoring system". Water Resources...
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    only a few inches above the water table. Capillary action supports a vadose zone above the saturated base, within which water content decreases with distance...
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    and extends through the pedosphere, unsaturated vadose zone, and saturated groundwater zone. Critical Zone science is the integration of Earth surface processes...
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  • hydrology, interflow is the lateral movement of water in the unsaturated zone, or vadose zone, that returns to the surface or enters a stream. Interflow is sometimes...
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  • phreatic zone, below the phreatic surface where rock and soil are saturated with water, is the counterpart of the vadose zone, or unsaturated zone, above...
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  • treatment process for in situ remediation of volatile contaminants in vadose zone (unsaturated) soils (EPA, 2012). SVE (also referred to as in situ soil...
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  • in the environmental literature because it describes the flow in the vadose zone between the atmosphere and the aquifer. It also appears in pure mathematical...
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    potential ( Ψ m {\displaystyle \Psi _{m}} ) (soil moisture tension) in the vadose zone. This device typically consists of a glass or plastic tube with a porous...
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    this type of lysimeter is often used to study water movement in the vadose zone (above the water table) Pressure Plate Lysimeters Principle: Measured...
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  • infiltration, penetrates the soil traveling underground, hydrating the vadose zone soil, recharging aquifers, with the excess flowing in subsurface runoff...
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    through which water enters an aquifer. This process usually occurs in the vadose zone below plant roots and is often expressed as a flux to the water table...
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  • remaining largely within and near the anticlinal crest zone. The caves are predominantly combinations of vadose shafts and steep meandering passages, although...
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    definition of unsaturated conditions, and they make up the subject of vadose zone hydrogeology. The capillary fringe of the water table is the dividing...
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    through which water enters an aquifer. This process usually occurs in the vadose zone below plant roots and is often expressed as a flux to the water table...
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    zones: the unsaturated (vadose) zone, which includes small grains or particles surrounded by a thin film of water; and the saturated (phreatic) zone,...
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    The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractures of the ground are saturated with...
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    conductivity measurements in soils using time domain reflectometry". Vadose Zone Journal 2: 444–475. Robinson, D. A., C. S. Campbell, J. W. Hopmans, B...
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    characterizing aquifers. There are also problems in characterizing the vadose zone (unsaturated zone). Infiltration is the process by which water enters the soil...
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    The finite water-content vadose zone flux method represents a one-dimensional alternative to the numerical solution of Richards' equation for simulating...
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  • zone The part of an aquifer that is below the water table, where nearly all pores and fractures are fully saturated with water. Contrast vadose zone....
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    fine soil fraction of desert pavements using ground penetrating radar. Vadose Zone Journal 5(2):720-730. Qu Jianjun, Huang Ning, Dong Guangrong and Zhang...
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    critical zone Lin H.; Hopmans J.W.; Richter D. (2011). "Interdisciplinary Sciences in a Global Network of Critical Zone Observatories". Vadose Zone Journal...
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    with poor infiltration such as clays into more permeable layers of the vadose zone such as sand. Simple dry wells consist of a pit filled with gravel, riprap...
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    and precipitation. In many locations, the aquifer is overlain, in the vadose zone, with a shallow layer of caliche that is practically impermeable; this...
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