Articles | Volume 19, issue 6
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2617-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-2617-2015
Research article
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03 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 03 Jun 2015

Estimating flow and transport parameters in the unsaturated zone with pore water stable isotopes

M. Sprenger, T. H. M. Volkmann, T. Blume, and M. Weiler

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We present a novel approach that includes information about the pore water stable isotopic composition in inverse model approaches to estimate soil hydraulic parameters. Different approaches are presented and their adequacy regarding the model efficiency, realism and parameter identifiability are discussed. The advantages of the new approach are shown by an application of the inverse estimated parameters to infer the water balance and the transit time for three different study sites.