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Unsaturated Flow in Hydrologic Modeling

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Storm runoff in many parts of the world is produced by subsurface runoff processes or interflow. The evidence for different mechanisms to explain fast subsurface responses is reviewed. The different mechanisms are incorporated into a unified conceptual model of interflows that highlights the importance of spatial heterogeneity and preferential flow pathways. Approaches to modelling interflows are reviewed, both by Darcian mechanisms and incorporating the effects of macropores. The difficulties of deconvoluting different process contributions to slope responses is discussed in terms of a distribution function concept. An approach to modelling interflows that incorporates the estimation of predictive uncertainties is outlined.

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Beven, K. (1989). Interflow. In: Morel-Seytoux, H.J. (eds) Unsaturated Flow in Hydrologic Modeling. NATO ASI Series, vol 275. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2352-2_7

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