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SHORT and long time theories of water movement during three-dimensional infiltration are tested both in the laboratory and the field. The utility of Wooding's (1968) theory of infiltration from a shallow, surface pond is demonstrated. Inefficiencies in trickle irrigation can in some cases result from surface free water accessing vented macropores and rapidly by-passing the root zone.
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Clothier et al. (1985) studied this question.
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