Journal
HYDROLOGY
Volume 4, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/hydrology4030035
Keywords
cape fear; hillslope processes; experimental plot; runoff onset; soil moisture; rill formation; tracers; fluorescent particles
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- Ministero degli Affari Esteri project [2015 Italy-USA PGR00175]
- UNESCO Chair in Water Resources Management and Culture
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Innovative experimental field designs and methods are instrumental for dissecting hydrological processes in hillslopes. However, experimental studies at the catchment scale are rarely affordable to most research groups, and laboratory flumes are oversimplified to reproduce natural phenomena. In this work, we present the innovative hybrid experimental plot of Cape Fear, which features controllable water fluxes and boundary conditions, but it is directly exposed to external atmospheric agents. We demonstrate the suitability of Cape Fear to study hydrological phenomena through a feasibility test, whereby the response of the plot to a natural storm is in line with the well-known hydrological response of natural hillslopes. Future studies will address the influence of the plot geometry parameters on rill formation.
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