Journal
HYDROLOGICAL PROCESSES
Volume 31, Issue 2, Pages 270-278Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.10939
Keywords
ground freezing; unfrozen water; pore ice; water flow in macropore; soil thaw; snowmelt infiltration
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- Japanese Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture [26450338]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [26450338, 15K14820, 26292126] Funding Source: KAKEN
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An understanding of heat transport and water flow in unsaturated soils experiencing freezing and thawing is important when considering hydrological and thermal processes in cold regions. Macropores, such as cracks, roots, and animal holes, provide efficient conduits for enhanced infiltration, resulting in a unique distribution of water content. However, the effects of macropores on soil freezing and thawing with infiltration have not been well studied. A one-directional soil-column freezing and thawing experiment was conducted using unsaturated sandy and silt loams with different sizes and numbers of macropores. During freezing, macropores were found to retard the formation of the frozen layer, depending on their size and number. During thawing, water flowed through macropores in the frozen layer and reached the underlying unfrozen soil. However, infiltrated water sometimes refroze in a macropore. The ice started to form at near inner wall of the macropore, grew to the centre, and blocked flow through the macropore. The blockage ice in the macropore could not melt until the frozen layer disappeared. Improving a soil freezing model to consider these macropore effects is required. Copyright (C) 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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