Efficient estimation of effective hydraulic properties of stratal undulating surface layer using time-lapse multi-channel GPR

Pan, Xicai; Jaumann, Stefan; Zhang, Jiabao; Roth, Kurt

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3653-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3653-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-3653-2019

© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 23, issue 9

Research article

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10 Sep 2019

Research article |

| 10 Sep 2019

Efficient estimation of effective hydraulic properties of stratal undulating surface layer using time-lapse multi-channel GPR

Xicai Pan, Stefan Jaumann, Jiabao Zhang, and Kurt Roth

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Final revised paper (published on 10 Sep 2019)
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RC1: 'Review comments on “Efficient estimation of effective hydraulic properties of stratal undulating surface layer using time-lapse multi-channel GPR” by Pan et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 21 May 2019
- AC1: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee 1', Xicai Pan, 09 Jul 2019
RC2: 'Comment on “Efficient estimation of effective hydraulic properties of stratal undulating surface layer using time-lapse multi-channel GPR” by X. Pan et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Jun 2019
- AC2: 'Reply to Anonymous Referee 2', Xicai Pan, 09 Jul 2019

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (07 Aug 2019) by Bob Su

AR by Xicai Pan on behalf of the Authors (07 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (15 Aug 2019) by Bob Su

AR by Xicai Pan on behalf of the Authors (19 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

This study suggests an efficient approach to obtain plot-scale soil hydraulic properties for the shallow structural soils via non-invasive ground-penetrating radar measurements. Facilitated by spatial information of lateral water flow, this approach is more efficient than the widely used inversion approaches relying on intensive soil moisture monitoring. The acquisition of such quantitative information is of great interest to fields such as hydrology and precision agriculture.