Articles | Volume 22, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1931-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1931-2018
Research article
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20 Mar 2018
Research article |  | 20 Mar 2018

Deriving surface soil moisture from reflected GNSS signal observations from a grassland site in southwestern France

Sibo Zhang, Jean-Christophe Calvet, José Darrozes, Nicolas Roussel, Frédéric Frappart, and Gilles Bouhours

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (05 Feb 2018) by Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (19 Feb 2018) by Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
AR by Jean-Christophe Calvet on behalf of the Authors (20 Feb 2018)  Author's response    Manuscript
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Short summary
Surface soil moisture was retrieved from a grassland site in southwestern France using the GNSS-IR technique. In order to efficiently limit the impact of perturbing vegetation effects, the grass growth period and the senescence period are treated separately. While the vegetation biomass effect can be corrected for, the litter water interception influences the observations and cannot be easily accounted for.