Portable rainfall simulator for plot-scale investigation of rainfall-runoff,and transport of sediment and pollutants

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A low-cost, simple to use portable rainfall simulator is developed for use over a 5 m2 plot. The simulator is easy to transport and assemble in the field, thereby allowing for necessary experimental replicates to be done. It provides rainfall intensities of between 20 and 100 mm/h by changing the number and type of silicon nozzles used. The Christiansen coefficient of uniformities obtained in the field are appropriate and vary from 79 to 94% for rainfall intensities ranging from 30 to 70 mm/h. In addition, the median volumetric drop diameters measured for rainfall intensities of 30, 50, and 70 mm/h are in the lower range of that of natural rainfall and equal to 1.10 ± 0.08,1.69 ± 0.21, and 1.66 ± 0.20 mm, respectively. The velocities of the raindrops with diameters less than 1.2 mm reached terminal velocities, while raindrops less than 2.0 mm achieved velocities reasonably close to the terminal velocity of natural rainfall. Furthermore,the average time-specific kinetic energy（KET） for rainfall intensities of 30, 50, and 70 mm/h are 257.7,760.1, and 1645.2 J/m2/h, respectively accounting for about 78.0 and 86.5% of the KET of natural rainfall for50 and 70 mm/h rainfall intensity, respectively. The applicability of the portable rainfall simulator for herbicide transport study is investigated using two herbicides（atrazine and metolachlor）; herbicide losses in runoff and sediment samples are in the ranges reported in the literature. As a percentage of the amount of herbicide applied, 5.29% of atrazine and 2.15% of metolachlor are lost due to combined water and sediment runoff. The results show that the portable rainfall simulator can be effectively used in studying processes such as pesticide runoff, infiltration mechanisms, and sediment generation and transport at a field plot scale with an emphasis on how surface characteristics such as slope and soil properties affect these processes.

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类型: 期刊论文

作者: Julien Boulange,Farag Malhat,Piyanuch Jaikaew,Kazuki Nanko,Hirozumi Watanabe

来源: International Journal of Sediment Research 2019年01期

年度: 2019

分类: 工程科技Ⅱ辑,工程科技Ⅰ辑

专业: 环境科学与资源利用,水利水电工程

单位: Department of International,Environmental and Agricultural Sciences,Graduate School of Agriculture,Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering,United Graduate School of Agricultural Science,Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology,Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering,Faculty of Science and engineering,Kasetsart University,Chalermphrakiat Sakon Nakhon Provice Campus,Department of Disaster Prevention,Meteorology and Hydrology,Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute

基金: funded by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS),Japan operating grant (26.04074) provided as a Postdoctoral Fellowship for Foreign Researchers to the second author

分类号: TV121.1;X52

页码: 38-47

总页数: 10

文件大小: 1584K

下载量: 7

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