ASSOULINE Shmuel

Dept. of Environmental Physics and Irrigation
Institute of Soils, Water and Environment Sciences A.R.O - Volcani Center
P.O. Box 6 Bet Dagan 50250, ISRAEL
Tel: 972-3-9683432
Fax: 972-3-9604017
E-mail: vwshmuel@agri.gov.il



Domains of Research:


Modeling the soil crusts hydraulic properties and the dynamics of soil sealing.
Rainfall-Infiltration-Runoff relationships.
Modeling of soil hydraulic properties.
Soil structure and compaction effects.
Irrigation practices and technologies.

List of Publications

Articles in Reviewed Journals

1. Mualem, Y. and S. Assouline. 1986. Mathematical model for rain drop distribution and rainfall kinetic energy. Trans. ASAE. 29:494-500.
2. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 1989. The similarity of regional rainfall: A dimensionless model of drop size distribution. Trans. ASAE. 32(4):1216-1222.
3. Mualem, Y. and S. Assouline. 1989. Modeling soil seal as a non-homogeneous layer. Water Resour. Res. 25(10):2101-2108.
4. Mualem, Y., S. Assouline and H. Rohdenburg. 1990. Rainfall induced soil seal: (A) A critical review of observations and models. Catena. 17(2):185-203.
5. Mualem, Y., S. Assouline and H. Rohdenburg. 1990. Rainfall induced soil seal: (B) Application of a new model to saturated soils. Catena. 17(2):205-218.
6. Mualem, Y., S. Assouline and H. Rohdenburg. 1990. Rainfall induced soil seal: (C) A dynamic model with kinetic energy instead of cumulative rainfall as independent variable. Catena. 17(3):289-303.
7. Mualem, Y. and S. Assouline. 1991. Modeling rainfall-runoff relationship for bare soils affected by surface sealing. Catena supplement 19:91-99.
8. Assouline, S. and Y. Mahrer. 1993. Evaporation from Lake Kinneret: A. Eddy correlation system measurements and energy budgets estimates. Water Resour. Res. 29(4):901-910.
9. Mahrer, Y. and S. Assouline. 1993. Evaporation from Lake Kinneret: B. Estimation of the horizontal variability using a two-dimensional numerical mesoscale model. Water Resour. Res. 29(4):911-916.
10. Mualem, Y., S. Assouline and D. Eltahan. 1993. The effect of rainfall induced soil seals on water regime: Wetting processes. Water Resour. Res. 29(6):1651-1659.
11. Assouline, S. 1993. Estimation of lake hydrologic budget terms using the simultaneous solution of water, heat and salt balances and a Kalman filtering approach - Application to Lake Kinneret. Water Resour. Res. 29(9):3041-3048.
12. Assouline, S. 1994. Comment on "A partial contributing area model for linking rainfall simulation data with hydrographs of a small arid watershed" by Ben-Asher, J. and G. Humborg. Water Resour. Res. 30(1):139-141.
13. Mualem, Y., S. Assouline and D. Eltahan. 1995. Reply to a comment of R.E. Smith on "The effect of rainfall induced soil seals on water regime: Wetting processes". Water Resour. Res. 31(1):235-236.
14. Assouline, S. and Y. Mahrer. 1996. Spatial and temporal variation in microclimate and evaporation over lakes: Experimental evaluation. J. of Appl. Meteorol., 35:1076-1084.
15. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 1997. Modeling the dynamics of seal formation and its effect on infiltration as related to soil and rainfall characteristics. Water Resour. Res., 33(7): 1527-1536.
16. Assouline, S., J. Tavares-Filho and D. Tessier. 1997. Effect of compaction on soil physical and hydraulic properties: Experimental results and modeling. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 61(2): 390-398.
17. Assouline S., A. El Idrissi and E. Persoons. 1997. Modeling the physical characteristics of simulated rainfall: A comparison to natural rainfall. J. of Hydrol. 196: 336-347.
18. Assouline S. and Y. Rouault. 1997. Modeling the relationship between particle and pore size distributions in a multicomponent sphere pack: Application to the water retention curve. Colloid and Surfaces A, 127: 201-209.
19. Rouault, Y. and S. Assouline. 1997. Modeling pore size distributions an water retention functions in dense polydisperse sphere packings. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, serie IIa, 324: 573-578.
20. Rouault, Y. and S. Assouline. 1998. A probabilistic approach towards modeling the relationship between particle and pore size distributions: The multicomponent sphere pack case. J. Powder Technol., 96: 33-41.
21. Assouline, S., D. Tessier and A. Bruand. 1998. A conceptual model of the soil water retention curve. Water Resour. Res., 34(2): 223-231.
22. Lahav, N ., S. Nir, S. Assouline and A. Trainin. 1998. The possible role of radiation in biogenesis: A system approach. Viva Origino 26(1): 1-14
23. Rouault, Y. and S. Assouline. 1998. Modeling the disordered dense phase in the packing of binary mixtures of spheres. J. Coll. Interface Sci. 204: 87-92.
24. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 2000. Modeling the dynamics of soil seal formation: Analysis of the effect of soil and rainfall properties. Water Resour. Res. 36(8): 2341-2349.
25. Huang, Z.B., S. Assouline, J. Zilberman and M. Ben-Hur. 2000.
    Tillage and saline irrigation effects on water and salt distribution in a sloping field.
    Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 64: 2096-2102.
26. Assouline, S., D. Tessier and A. Bruand. 2000. Correction to: “A conceptual model of the soil water retention curve”. Water Resour. Res. 36(12): 3769.
27. Assouline, S., S. Nir and Lahav, N., 2001. Simulation of non-enzymatic template-directed synthesis of oligonucleotides and peptides. J. Theor. Bio. 208: 117-125.
28. Assouline, S. and D.M. Tartakovsky. 2001. Unsaturated hydraulic conductivity function based on a soil fragmentation process. Water Resour. Res. 37(5): 1309-1312.
29. Assouline, S. 2001. A model of soil relative hydraulic conductivity based on water retention curve characteristics. Water Resour. Res. 37(2): 265-271.
30. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 2001. Soil seal formation and its effect on infiltration: Uniform versus non-uniform seal approximation. Water Resour. Res. 37(2): 297-305.
31. Assouline, S., S. Cohen, D. Meerbach, T. Harodi and M. Rozner. 2002. Micro-drip irrigation of field crops: the effect on yield, water uptake and drainage in sweet corn. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 66(1):228-235.
32. Assouline, S. 2002. The effects of micro-drip and conventional drip irrigation on water distribution and uptake. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 66(5):1630-1636.
33. Ben-Hur, M. and S. Assouline. 2002. Effects of tillage on water and salt distributions in a Vertisol during effluent irrigation season and subsequent rainfall. Agronomy J. 94(6):1295-1304.
34. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 2002. Infiltration during soil sealing: The effect of areal heterogeneity of soil hydraulic properties. Water Resour. Res. 38(12), 1286, doi:10.1029/2001WR001168.
35. Assouline, S. 2002. Modeling soil compaction under uniaxial compression. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 66(6):1784-1787.
36. Shavit, U., G. Bar-Yosef, R. Rosenzweig and S. Assouline. 2002. Modified Brinkman equation for a free flow problem at the interface of porous surfaces: the Cantor-Taylor brush configuration case. Water Resour. Res. 38(12): 1320-1334.
37. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 2003. Effect of rainfall induced soil seals on the soil water regime: Drying interval and subsequent wetting. Transport in Porous Media 53:75-94.
38. Assouline, S. and M. Ben-Hur. 2003. Effects of water application and soil tillage on water and salt regimes in a Vertisol. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 67:852-858.
39. Shavit, U., R. Rosenzweig and S. Assouline. 2004. Free flow at the interface of porous surfaces: A generalization of the Taylor brush configuration. Transport in Porous Media 54:345-360.
40. Bresson, L.M., C. J. Moran and S. Assouline. 2004. Use of bulk density profiles from X-radiography to examine structural crusts models. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J. 68: 1169
41. Assouline, S. and U. Shavit. 2004. Effects of management policies, including artificial recharge, on salinization in a sloping aquifer: the israeli coastal aquifer case. Water Resour. Res. 40(5), W04101, doi:10.1029/2003WR002290.
42. Assouline, S. 2004. Correction to "A model of soil relative hydraulic conductivity based on water retention curve characteristics". Water Resour. Res. 40(2), W02901, doi:10.1029/2004WR003025.
43. Assouline, S. 2004. Comment on "Laboratory evaluation of a hydrodynamic inverse modeling method based on water content data" by S. Lambot, F. Hupet, M. Javaux and M. Vanclooster. Water Resour. Res. 40(12), W12801, doi:10.1029/2004WR003479.
44. Silber, A., Bruner, M., Kenig, E., Reshef, G., Zohar, H., Posalski, I., Yechezkel, H., Shmuel, D., Cohen, S., Dinar, M., and S. Assouline. 2005. High irrigation frequency and transient NH4 concentration: effects on soilless-grown bell pepper. J. Hortic. Sci. Biotech. 80(2): 233-239.
45. Silber, A., Bruner, M., Kenig, E., Reshef, G., Zohar, H., Posalski, I., Yechezkel, H., Shmuel, D., Cohen, S., Dinar, M., Matan, E., Dinkin, I., Cohen, Y., Karni, L., Aloni, B. and S. Assouline. 2005. High fertigation frequency and phosphorus level: effects on summer-grown bell pepper growth and blossom-end rot incidence. Plant Soil, 270: 135-146.
46. Assouline, S. 2005. On the relationship between the pore size distribution index and characteristics of the soil hydraulic functions. Water Resour. Res., 41(7), W07019, doi:10.1029/2004WR003511.
47. Lado, M., M. Ben-Hur and S. Assouline. 2005. Effects of long-term effluent irrigation on seal formation, infiltration and interill erosion. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 69: 1432-1439.
48. Agele, S., S. CohenandS. Assouline. 2006. Hydraulic characteristics and water relations in net house-grown bell pepper as affected by irrigation regimes in a Mediterranean climate. Environmental and Experimental Botany 57: 226-235.
49. Assouline, S. 2006. Modeling the relationship between soil bulk density and the water retention curve. Vadose Zone J ., 5: 554-563.
50. Silber, A., M. Levi, M. Cohen, N. David, Y. Shtaynmetz, and S. Assouline. 2006. Leucodendron "Safari Sunset" response to irrigation and fertilization levels. J. Hortic. Sci. Biotech., 81: 355-364 .
51. Assouline, S. 2006. Modeling the relationship between soil bulk density and the hydraulic conductivity function. Vadose Zone J ., 5: 697-705.
52. Assouline, S. and M. Ben-Hur. 2006. Effects of rainfall intensity and slope gradient on the dynamics of interrill erosion during soil surface sealing. Catena, 66: 211-220.
53. Assouline, S., M. Muller, S. Cohen, M. Ben-Hur, A. Grava, K. Narkis and A. Silber. 2006. Soil-plant response to pulsed drip irrigation and salinity: Bell pepper case study. Soil Sci. Soc. Am. J., 70: 1556-1568.
54. Assouline, S. and Y. Mualem. 2006. Runoff from heterogeneous small bare catchments during soil surface sealing. Water Resour. Res., 42, W12405, doi: 10.1029/2005WR004592.
55. Assouline, S. and D. Or. 2006. Anisotropy of saturated and unsaturated soils. Water Resour. Res., 42, W12403, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005001.
56. Silber, A., M. Levi, M. Cohen, N. David, Y. Shtaynmetz, and S. Assouline. 2007. Response of Leucodendron "Safari Sunset" to regulated deficit irrigation: effects of stress timing on growth and yield quality.Agr. Water. Manag. , 87: 162-174.
57. Muller, M. and S. Assouline. 2007. Effect of a shading screen on microclimate and crop water requirements. Irrig. Sci., 25: 171-181.
58. Assouline, S., J. Selker and J-Y. Parlange. 2007. A simple accurate method to predict time of ponding under variable intensity rainfall. Water Resour. Res., 43, W03426, doi: 10.1029/2006WR005138.
59. Augeard, B., S. Assouline, A. Fonty, C. Kao and M. Vauclin. 2007. Estimating hydraulic properties of rainfall-induced soil surface seals from infiltration experiments and X-ray bulk density measurements . J. Hydrol., (on line), doi:10.1016/j.hydrol.2007.04.018.
60. Assouline, S., S.W. Tyler, J. Tanny, S. Cohen, E. Bou-Zeid, M.B. Parlange and G.G. Katul. 2007. Evaporation from three water bodies of different sizes and climates: Measurements and scaling analysis . Adv. Water Resour., doi:10.1016/j.advwatres.2007.07.003

Chapters in Books and Invited Reviews.

1. Mualem, Y. and S. Assouline. 1992. Flow processes in sealing soils: Conceptions and solutions. in: Soil crusting: Chemical and physical processes. Edited by M.E. Sumner and B.A. Stewart. Advances in Soil Science. Lewis Publishers, Florida.
2. Mualem, Y. and S. Assouline. 1995. Soil sealing: Infiltration and Runoff. in: Runoff, Infiltration and Subsurface flow. Edited by A.S. Issar and S. Resnick. Kluver Academic Publishers, The Netherland.
3. Assouline S., 2004. Rainfall-induced soil surface sealing: a critical review of observations, conceptual models and solutions. Vadose Zone Journal 3:570-591.
4. Hopmans, J.W., J-Y. Parlange andS. Assouline, 2006. Infiltration. In: The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering. 2 nd Edition. Chapter 7. J. W. Delleur (Ed). CRC press. Taylor and Francis Group.
5. Barry, D. A., J.-Y. Parlange, M.-C. Liu, G. C. Sander, M. B. Parlange, D. A. Lockington, F. Stagnitti, S. Assouline, J. Selker, D.-S. Jeng, T. S. Steenhuis, L. Li, R. Haverkamp, and W. B. Hogarth, 2006. Infiltration and ponding, in Mathematical Models, [Eds. Jerzy A. Filar,Jacek B. Krawczyk], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net] .
6. Assouline, S. andJ. Assouline, 2007. Geopolitique de l'Eau: Nature et enjeux. Studyrama , France . pp. 140.
7. Levy, G. andS. Assouline, 2007. Physical aspects. In: Use of treated sewage water in agriculture: impacts on crop and soil environment. Chapter 2. Levy, G., P. Fine and A. Bar-Tal (Eds). Blackwell Publishing. Invited chapter. (in press).