Which key properties controls the preferential transport in the vadose zone under transient hydrological conditions

Jannis Groh1, Jan Vanderborght2, Thomas Puetz2, Horst Herbert Gerke3, Holger Rupp4, Ute Wollschlaeger5, Christine Stumpp6, Eckart Priesack7 and Harry Vereecken8, (1)Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany, (2)Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, Agrosphere (IBG-3), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, (3)Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Landscape Functioning, Working Group Hydropedology, Müncheberg, Germany, (4)Center for Environmental Research, Soil Physics, Leipzig-Halle, Germany, (5)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ Leipzig, Department Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Leipzig, Germany, (6)Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Groundwater Ecology, Munich, Germany, (7)Helmholtz Zentrum München, Institute of Soil Ecology, Munich, Germany, (8)Geoverbund ABC/J, Centre for High-Performance Scientific Computing in Terrestrial Systems (TerrSys), Jülich, Germany