Closing the water balance with cosmic-ray soil moisture measurements  and assessing their relation to evapotranspiration in two semiarid  watersheds

Schreiner-McGraw, A. P.; Vivoni, E. R.; Mascaro, G.; Franz, T. E.

doi:10.5194/hess-20-329-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-329-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 20, issue 1

Research article

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19 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 19 Jan 2016

Closing the water balance with cosmic-ray soil moisture measurements and assessing their relation to evapotranspiration in two semiarid watersheds

A. P. Schreiner-McGraw, E. R. Vivoni, G. Mascaro, and T. E. Franz

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Short summary

Soil moisture estimates from a novel method were evaluated in two semiarid watersheds. We found good agreements between the technique and estimates derived from watershed instruments designed to close the water balance. We then investigated local hydrologic processes and link between evapotranspiration and soil moisture obtained from the novel measurements.