Articles | Volume 20, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4775-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-20-4775-2016
Research article
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05 Dec 2016
Research article |  | 05 Dec 2016

The evolution of root-zone moisture capacities after deforestation: a step towards hydrological predictions under change?

Remko Nijzink, Christopher Hutton, Ilias Pechlivanidis, René Capell, Berit Arheimer, Jim Freer, Dawei Han, Thorsten Wagener, Kevin McGuire, Hubert Savenije, and Markus Hrachowitz

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by Editor) (26 Oct 2016) by Fabrizio Fenicia
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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (11 Nov 2016) by Fabrizio Fenicia
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Short summary
The core component of many hydrological systems, the moisture storage capacity available to vegetation, is typically treated as a calibration parameter in hydrological models and often considered to remain constant in time. In this paper we test the potential of a recently introduced method to robustly estimate catchment-scale root-zone storage capacities exclusively based on climate data to reproduce the temporal evolution of root-zone storage under change (deforestation).