Overview and Bibliography of Methods for Evaluating the Surface-Water-Infiltration Component of the Rainfall-Runoff Process

摘要

The report presents the results of a study by the U.S. Geological Survey, incooperation with the Illinois Department of Transportation, Division of Water Resources, to compile a bibliography of the technical literature on the subject of rainfall infiltration. Citations were selected for inclusion into the report bibliography if they addressed the topic of infiltration in the context of rainfall-runoff processes and rainfall-runoff-modeling studies. An overview and critical analysis of selected infiltration equations is presented. Infiltration-estimation techniques can be broadly divided between the theoretical equations and the empirical equations. It is concluded that, although many soil physicists and theoretical researchers tend to favor physically based theoretical equations, practitioners of rainfall-runoff modeling most often use the simpler empirical equations to estimate infiltration.