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Record W2023379142 · doi:10.2136/sssaj2002.7530

Spatial and Statistical Similarities of Local Soil Water Fluxes

2002· article· en· W2023379142 on OpenAlexaff
Bingcheng Si

Bibliographic record

VenueSoil Science Society of America Journal · 2002
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEngineering
TopicSoil and Unsaturated Flow
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Saskatchewan
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSoil waterInfiltration (HVAC)Soil scienceSpatial variabilityFlux (metallurgy)Environmental scienceSpatial distributionHydrology (agriculture)Surface runoffWater flowGeologyMathematicsStatisticsGeotechnical engineeringMaterials scienceRemote sensingPhysicsMeteorology

Abstract

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Understanding the spatial and statistical distribution of soil water flux in a field is fundamental for stochastic modeling soil water flow and chemical transport in spatially variable soils. The objective of this study was to examine the persistence of the spatial pattern and statistical distribution of local soil water flux for different application rates during constant flux rainfall infiltrations. A series of constant flux‐infiltration experiments were conducted in a spatially variable field. The local soil water fluxes for each of the 0‐ to 0.2‐, 0‐ to 0.4‐, 0‐ to 0.6‐, and 0‐ to 0.8‐m depths were determined from the change of water storage as a function of time before the wetting front passes the end of vertically installed time domain reflectometry (TDR) probes. The spatial similarity (persistent spatial pattern) of the measured soil water flux for different application rates at four depths was examined using Spearman rank correlation coefficient. Results showed that there was no persistent spatial similarity among measured soil water fluxes for the 0‐ to 0.2‐, 0‐ to 0.4‐, 0‐ to 0.6‐, and 0‐ to 0.8‐m depths. This indicates that transient infiltration experiments with different application rates have different flow pathways for each of the 0‐ to 0.2‐, 0‐ to 0.4‐, 0‐ to 0.6‐, and 0‐ to 0.8‐m depths. The statistical similarity (persistent statistical distribution) of soil water flux for different application rates was examined using histograms. Chi‐square tests indicated that the histograms of soil water flux for different application rates were different for each of the 0‐ to 0.2‐, 0‐ to 0.4‐, 0‐ to 0.6‐, and 0‐ to 0.8‐m depths, suggesting the stochastic convective flow model may not be used to predict flow and transport in this field for different application rates.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.002
Threshold uncertainty score0.004

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.203
Teacher spread0.194 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2002
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