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Hydraulic roughness of earth covers at a cold‐desert waste burial site

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Pages 327-338 | Received 13 Aug 1991, Published online: 09 Jan 2009
 

Abstract

A kinematic wave model of overland flow was used to calculate hydraulic roughness coefficients for earth covers and native hillslope surfaces at a waste burial site located in a cold‐desert region of southeast Idaho. Manning n roughness coefficients were greater on earth cover plots planted to crested wheatgrass [Agropyron desertorum (Fisch, ex Link) Schult.] (a bunchgrass, average n = 0.076) than on those planted to streambank wheatgrass [Elymus lancelolatus (Scribner & J. G. Smith) Gould] (a sodgrass, average n = 0.030). Mound and intermound microtopography strongly influenced overland flow geometry on the bare native hillslope plots resulting in low apparent roughness values (average n = 0.013). Time‐related changes in hydraulic roughness appeared to be caused by development of a raininduced crust on exposed soil surfaces that reduced infiltration and increased plot smoothness.

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