Impact of Preferential Flow on the Transport of Adsorbing and Non-Adsorbing Tracers
K.-J.S. Kunga,
T.S. Steenhuisb,
E.J. Kladivkoc,
T.J. Gishd,
G. Bubenzera and
C.S. Hellingd
a Dep. of Biol. System Eng., Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706-1299 USA
b Dep. of Agric. and Biological Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY 14850 USA
c Dep. of Agronomy, Purdue Univ., West Lafayette, IN USA
d Weed Science Lab., USDA-ARS, BARC-W, 10300 Baltimore Blvd., Beltsville, MD 20705-2350 USA

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Fig. 1 The breakthrough curves of the non-adsorbing and adsorbing tracers and the tile hydrograph from Plot 3 as function of time after the irrigation started. The concentration is in mg L-1, except that of rhodamine WT is in µg L-1
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Fig. 2 The breakthrough curves of the tracers and the tile hydrograph from Plot 4. The concentration is in mg L-1, except that of rhodamine WT is in µg L-1
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