The Amount and Composition of the Drainage through Unmanured and Uncropped Land, Barnfield, Rothamsted
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- 27 March 1906
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Agricultural Science
- Vol. 1 (4) , 377-399
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0021859600000435
Abstract
During the last sixty years numerous percolation and evaporation experiments have been made in this country and elsewhere. The method employed has been that originally used by Dalton, which has the advantage that the chemical and physical properties of the soil may, if desired, be thoroughly investigated. In addition to these experiments in which the evaporation from the soil, or from the soil with vegetation, is estimated by deducting the amount of drainage from the rainfall of the same period, numerous determinations of soil moisture have been made in the United States, from which evaporation may be directly determined. The difference between the estimated evaporation and the rainfall gives of course the amount of percolation.Keywords
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- Results of percolation experiments at Rothamsted, September 1870 to August 1899Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 1900