A sprinkling experiment to quantify celerity&ndash;velocity differences at the hillslope scale

van Verseveld, Willem J.; Barnard, Holly R.; Graham, Chris B.; McDonnell, Jeffrey J.; Brooks, J. Renée; Weiler, Markus

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5891-2017

Articles | Volume 21, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5891-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5891-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 21, issue 11

Research article

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27 Nov 2017

Research article |

| 27 Nov 2017

A sprinkling experiment to quantify celerity–velocity differences at the hillslope scale

Willem J. van Verseveld, Holly R. Barnard, Chris B. Graham, Jeffrey J. McDonnell, J. Renée Brooks, and Markus Weiler

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Final revised paper (published on 27 Nov 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 17 Mar 2017)

Interactive discussion

Status: closed

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

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RC1: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Apr 2017
- AC1: 'Response to review comments of Anonymous Referee #1', Willem van Verseveld, 30 Jun 2017
RC2: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #2, 02 May 2017
- AC3: 'Response to review comments of Anonymous Referee #2', Willem van Verseveld, 01 Jul 2017
RC3: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #3, 02 Jun 2017
- AC2: 'Response to review comments of Anonymous Referee #3', Willem van Verseveld, 30 Jun 2017

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

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by Editor and Referees) (09 Jul 2017) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Willem van Verseveld on behalf of the Authors (03 Oct 2017) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 Oct 2017) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Willem van Verseveld on behalf of the Authors (18 Oct 2017)

Short summary

How stream water responds immediately to a rainfall or snow event, while the average time it takes water to travel through the hillslope can be years or decades and is poorly understood. We assessed this difference by combining a 24-day sprinkler experiment (a tracer was applied at the start) with a process-based hydrologic model. Immobile soil water, deep groundwater contribution and soil depth variability explained this difference at our hillslope site.