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

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

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1931-2018

Articles | Volume 22, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1931-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-22-1931-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 22, issue 3

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

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RC1: 'Paper is well written but needs some work', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Nov 2017
- AC1: 'Response to Reviewer 1', Jean-Christophe Calvet, 24 Jan 2018
RC2: 'review', Anonymous Referee #2, 27 Nov 2017
- AC2: 'Response to Reviewer 2', Jean-Christophe Calvet, 24 Jan 2018

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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) (05 Feb 2018) by Miriam Coenders-Gerrits

AR by Jean-Christophe Calvet on behalf of the Authors (06 Feb 2018) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (09 Feb 2018) by Miriam Coenders-Gerrits

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 Feb 2018)

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (18 Feb 2018)

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

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.