Abstract: | Links that have been established between the characteristic responses of hillslope drainage processes and the size of drainage catchments enable valuable extrapolations and comparisons to be made, both within and beyond the range of the field data. To date, flow through natural soil pipes has not been included in these investigations. A methodology is offered for achieving this and the first such analyses of field data on pipeflow. The results indicate that pipeflow responses follow trends which are broadly similar to other hillslope drainage processes and are intermediate between throughflow and saturation overland flow. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |