Packet 11: Bonus 21

This man developed an alternative to the Richards equation which states a soil’s infiltration rate starts at the maximum and decays exponentially until reaching the minimum infiltration. For 10 points each:
[10h] What hydrologist also names an “overland flow” where rain that exceeds infiltration capacity will flow horizontally across land?
ANSWER: Robert E. Horton [or Horton equation or Horton overland flow]
[10e] Horton overland flow is an example of this process where excess rain or meltwater flows aboveground, leading to soil erosion.
ANSWER: surface runoff
[10m] The infiltration of water in soils can also be described with this equation, which states the volumetric flow rate through a porous medium equals negative permeability times pressure drop over dynamic viscosity.
ANSWER: Darcy’s law [reject “Darcy–Weisbach equation”]
<BC, Other Science (Earth Science)> | NAFTA-Packet-11

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