Scaling relationships are needed as measurements and desired predictions are often not available at concurrent spatial support volumes or temporal discretizations. Surface soil moisture values of interest to hydrologic studies are estimated using ground based measurement techniques or utilizing remote sensing platforms. Remote sensing based techniques estimate field-scale surface soil moisture values, but are unable to provide the local-scale soil moisture information that is obtained from local measurements. Further, obtaining field-scale surface moisture values using ground-based measurements is exhaustive and time consuming. To bridge this scale mismatch, we develop analytical expressions for surface soil moisture based on sharp-front approximation of the Richards equation and assumed log-normal distribution of the spatial surface saturated hydraulic conductivity field. Analytical expressions for field-scale evolution of surface soil moisture to rainfall events are utilized to obtain aggregated and disaggregated response of surface soil moisture evolution with knowledge of the saturated hydraulic conductivity. The utility of the analytical model is demonstrated through numerical experiments involving 3-D simulations of soil moisture and Monte-Carlo simulations for 1-D renderings—with soil moisture dynamics being represented by the Richards equation in each instance. Results show that the analytical expressions developed here show promise for a principled way of scaling surface soil moisture.
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February 24 2015
A physical scaling model for aggregation and disaggregation of field-scale surface soil moisture dynamics
Richa Ojha;
Richa Ojha
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1Department of Civil Engineering,
Indian Institute of Technology
, Kanpur, 208016, India
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Rao S. Govindaraju
Rao S. Govindaraju
2Lyles School of Engineering,
Purdue University
, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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Chaos 25, 075401 (2015)
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Received:
May 08 2014
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November 24 2014
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Richa Ojha, Rao S. Govindaraju; A physical scaling model for aggregation and disaggregation of field-scale surface soil moisture dynamics. Chaos 1 July 2015; 25 (7): 075401. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4913235
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