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Estimation Model for Simplification and Validation of Soil Water Characteristics Curve on Volcanic Ash Soil in Subtropical Area in Korea  

Hur, Seung-Oh (Soil Management Division, National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA)
Moon, Kyung-Hwan (Agricultural Environment Division, National Institute of Subtropical Agriculture, RDA)
Jung, Kang-Ho (Soil Management Division, National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA)
Ha, Sang-Keun (Soil Management Division, National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA)
Song, Kwan-Cheol (Soil Management Division, National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA)
Lim, Han-Cheol (Soil Management Division, National Institute of Agricultural Science & Technology, RDA)
Kim, Geong-Gyu (Division of Environmental Science and Ecological Engineering, Korea University)
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Korean Journal of Soil Science and Fertilizer / v.39, no.6, 2006 , pp. 329-333 More about this Journal
Abstract
Most of volcanic ash soils in South Korea are distributed in Jeju province which is an island placed on southern part of Korea and has steep slope mountain area. There are many soils containing high contents of organic matter (OM) derived from volcanic ash in Jejudo, also. Therefore, irrigation and drainage in volcanic ash soil different with general soil which has low OM content have to be applied with another management way, but studies searching appropriate methods for them are set on insufficient situation because the area of volcanic ash soil in South Korea is only 1.3% (130,000ha). This study was conducted for analysis of soil water content and irrigation quantity appropriate for crops cultivated in volcanic ash soil with high OM content. Although soils with different soil color have the same soil texture, soil water characteristics curve by soil color showed the difference of water retention capability by OM content. But, this characteristics classified with soil color could be unified by scaling technique with similitude analysis method which get dimensionless water content using a present water content, a residual water content and saturated water content (or water content at 10kPa). A relation of gravimetric soil water content (GSWC) and dimensionless water content by the results showed a form of power function. The dimensionless water content (DWC) express a relative saturation degree of present water content. This was also expressed by van Genuchten model which describe the relation between relative saturation degrees and matric potentials. These results on soil water characteristics curve (SWCC) of volcanic ash soil will be the basic of irrigation plan in area having high organic contents into soil.
Keywords
Volcanic ash soil; Soil water characteristics; Soil color; Scaling technique;
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