Investigating temporal field sampling strategies for site-specific calibration of three soil moisture–neutron intensity parameterisation methods

Iwema, J.; Rosolem, R.; Baatz, R.; Wagener, T.; Bogena, H. R.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3203-2015

Articles | Volume 19, issue 7

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3203-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-19-3203-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 19, issue 7

Research article

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24 Jul 2015

Research article |

| 24 Jul 2015

Investigating temporal field sampling strategies for site-specific calibration of three soil moisture–neutron intensity parameterisation methods

J. Iwema, R. Rosolem, R. Baatz, T. Wagener, and H. R. Bogena

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C602: 'Review of Investigating temporal field sampling strategies... Iwema et al.', Robert Schwartz, 18 Mar 2015
- AC C946: 'Response to comments by Referee R. Schwartz', Joost Iwema, 10 Apr 2015
RC C674: 'Reviewer comments', Trenton Franz, 25 Mar 2015
- AC C950: 'Response to comments by Referee T. Franz', Joost Iwema, 10 Apr 2015
RC C884: 'Referee Comments', Todd Caldwell, 07 Apr 2015
- AC C955: 'Response to comments by referee T. Caldwell', Joost Iwema, 10 Apr 2015
  - RC C1174: 'Looks good.', Todd Caldwell, 20 Apr 2015
RC C899: 'hess-2015-31, review', Anonymous Referee #4, 08 Apr 2015
- AC C1002: 'Response to comments by Anonymous Referee #4', Joost Iwema, 13 Apr 2015
EC C902: 'Start interacting', Nunzio Romano, 08 Apr 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (25 Apr 2015) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Joost Iwema on behalf of the Authors (18 Jun 2015)

ED: Publish as is (09 Jul 2015) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Joost Iwema on behalf of the Authors (09 Jul 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

The cosmic-ray neutron sensor can provide soil moisture content averages over areas of roughly half a kilometre by half a kilometre. Although this sensor is usually calibrated using soil samples taken on a single day, we found that multiple sampling days are needed. The calibration results were also affected by the soil wetness conditions of the sampling days. The outcome of this study will help researchers to calibrate/validate new cosmic-ray neutron sensor sites more accurately.