"Cape Fear"-A hybrid hillslope plot for monitoring hydrological processes

Flavia Tauro; Andrea Petroselli; Aldo Fiori; Nunzio Romano; Maria Cristina Rulli; Maurizio Porfiri; Mario Palladino; Salvatore Grimaldi

doi:10.3390/hydrology4030035

"Cape Fear"-A hybrid hillslope plot for monitoring hydrological processes

Flavia Tauro, Andrea Petroselli, Aldo Fiori, Nunzio Romano, Maria Cristina Rulli, Maurizio Porfiri, Mario Palladino, Salvatore Grimaldi

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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.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	35
Journal	Hydrology
Volume	4
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/hydrology4030035
State	Published - 2017

Keywords

Cape fear
Experimental plot
Fluorescent particles
Hillslope processes
Rill formation
Runoff onset
Soil moisture
Tracers

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Oceanography
Water Science and Technology
Waste Management and Disposal
Earth-Surface Processes

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