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ISRN Soil Science
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 375842, 7 pages
doi:10.5402/2012/375842
Applicability of Hydrus-1D in a Mediterranean Mountain Area Submitted to Land Use Changes
1Department of Agronomy and Food Engineering and Biotechnology, Poltechnicy University of Catalonia, 08860 Castelldefels, Spain
2Department of Environmental Biophysics and Soils, LAB-FERRER Consulting Center, 25200 Cervera, Spain
3CREAF, Autonomous University of Barcelona, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain
Received 17 December 2011; Accepted 1 February 2012
Academic Editors: M. Bernoux and M. Wanner
Copyright © 2012 Carles M. Rubio and Rafael Poyatos. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
The aim of this research is to evaluate the reliability and accuracy of the Hydrus-1D model to simulate the measured dynamics of water flow in a silt loam soil profile located in an abandoned crop area. The paper includes a physical and chemical characterization of the soil, and hydraulic properties characteristics as well. Several techniques and devices were used to develop the experiment in both, field and laboratory scales. The last part of the study was the Hydrus-1D simulation using real rain events and evapotranspiration rates. In summary, it could predict accurately the water dynamics of this “natural” scenario.