Intake Parameters from Advance and Wetting Phases of Surface Irrigation

A volume balance approach to determine the parameters of the Kostiakov or modified Kostiakov infiltration equations in border and furrow irrigation is presented. The approach requires measured data from the advance phase, the postadvance (wetting) phase, or both, resulting in three different procedures to characterize infiltration. Using the entire field length the procedures provide infiltration parameters that are more representative of an...