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Runoff Generation in Forested Watersheds- A Half-Day Shortcourse
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About The Presenter
Jeff McDonnell, Richardson Chair in Watershed Science, Oregon State University.
About This Presentation
Running time: 3 hours, 1 minute and 16 seconds
Given:
Production by: M.J. Furniss and J. Guntle, Communications and Applications, PNW and PSW Research Stations
Topics covered:
- Runoff Generation in Forested Watersheds
- Introductions
- Background
- Benchmark Papers
- Good Basic Material
- Advanced Material
- Journals You Should Consult...
- Basic Question That Will Be Addressed
- Traditional Forest Hydrology
- Problems With the Paired Watershed Approach
- What This Course Will Address
- Mechanisms—Our focus
- Why These Flow Pathways and Mechanisms Are Important
- Water Residence Time Is Important
- What We Will and Will Not Cover
- Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology
- Experimentalist and Modeler
- Shortcourse Outline
- Example Locations
- Runoff Generation Overview
- This Section
- Our History
- Runoff Generation at a Point Depends on
- Storm Characteristics and Watershed Runoff
- Natural Conditions for Infiltration Excess Overland Flow
- Other Factors that Promote IEOF
- READ
- Hydraulic Conductivity of Some Materials
- Hydrological Pathways
- Hewlitt and Hibbert's, 1967 VSAC
- SOF Country
- Saturated Areas: We Can Estimate Based on Topography
- Saturation Overland Flow
- Spatial and Temporal Dynamics
- Subsurface Stormflow
- How This Might Happen
- But, Also Can Be Highly Preferential
- Dominant Processes of Hillslope Response to Rainfall
- Model Conceptualization of These Processes
- Proccess assumptions
- 3D Diagram
- Plot Scale
- This section
- Plot Scale: Example, Inceptisols
- What Changes With Depth
- Depth Function
- Drainable Porosity
- Ksat
- But Don't Forget....
- Soil Profiles and Cone Penetrometer
- The Plot Scale Simplified
- Pores
- Network-Like
- If Darcy Were Alive Today...
- How Infiltration Really Works
- Infiltrations in Macroporous Soils
- Classification of Macropores
- If We Were to Dig a Pit
- In Other Words
- Macropores: Engineers Knew About This > 100 Years Ago
- Observations
- Observations
- Plant Roots
- Hillslope Scale
- This section
- From Vertical to Lateral Flow
- Vertical to Lateral
- Surface and Bedrock Topography
- Hillsope Trenching
- Surface and Bedrock Topography
- Flow Distribution Across the Trench
- Transient Saturation: Spatial Pattern 5mm
- Transient Saturation: 9mm
- Transient Saturation: 16mm
- Transient Saturation: 29mm
- Transient Saturation: 50mm
- Transient Saturation: 59mm
- Transient Saturation: 61mm
- Threshold Effects
- Threshold Effects- A Common Observation
- Fill and Spill Behavior
- Visualizing These Processes
- Or, if a 2-Layer System...
- Or, if a 2-Layer System cont.
- Equals Transmissivity Feedback
- Back to Our Photo...
- Back to Transmissivity Feedback
- Pipeflow
- We See Thresholds for Lateral Pipeflow Also...
- Wherever We Trench, Pipeflow Dominates
- Transient Water Table Drives the Pipeflow
- We've Known About Complexity for a Long Time
- Catchment Scale
- This section
- Soil moisture—Wet
- Soil moisture—dry
- Terrain Relationships
- Threshold Responses
- Back to the Soil Moisture Diagram
- Threshold Responses cont...
- How Catchment Units Sequence
- Why This Is Important
- Another Way of Looking at This
- It's Not Continuous
- Or, Looking at This Geochemically
- Discrete Units That Connect and Disconnect
- From Geographic Source to Time Source
- The Reality
- The Old Water Paradox
- Not a New Idea
- Stable Isotopes: Hydrological Tool
- Two-Component Hydrograph Separation
- Time Source of Water During Events
- How Old is the old Water?
- A Recent GEOREF Search
- Residence Time Methods
- Convolusion Integral
- Mean Residence Time
- Some Reported Mean Residence Times
- Watershed Model
- Summary
- Basic Question That We Addressed
- One Proviso Before Ending
- REA: Something to Keep in Your Mind
- REA: Something That You Can Determine
- Hillslope and Watershed Hydrology
- Shortcourse Summary
- For a More Extended Virtual Course...
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