Quantification of soil water balance components based  on continuous soil moisture measurement and the Richards  equation in an irrigated agricultural field of a desert oasis

Li, Zhongkai; Liu, Hu; Zhao, Wenzhi; Yang, Qiyue; Yang, Rong; Liu, Jintao

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4685-2019

Articles | Volume 23, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4685-2019

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-23-4685-2019

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

Articles | Volume 23, issue 11

Research article

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18 Nov 2019

Research article |

| 18 Nov 2019

Quantification of soil water balance components based on continuous soil moisture measurement and the Richards equation in an irrigated agricultural field of a desert oasis

Zhongkai Li, Hu Liu, Wenzhi Zhao, Qiyue Yang, Rong Yang, and Jintao Liu

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

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RC1: 'Comment on “Estimation of Evapotranspiration and Other Soil Water Budget Components in an Irrigated Agricultural Field of a Desert Oasis, Using Soil Moisture Measurements” by Zhongkai Li et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Apr 2019
- AC1: 'Response to the Anonymous Referee #1 (RC1)', Hu Liu, 06 Jun 2019
SC1: 'interesting results, clarifications needed', Michael W. I. Schmidt, 08 May 2019
- AC3: 'Response to Dr. Michael W. I. Schmidt (SC1)', Hu Liu, 07 Jun 2019
RC2: 'some comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 26 May 2019
- AC2: 'Response to the Anonymous Referee #1 (RC2)', Hu Liu, 06 Jun 2019

Peer-review completion

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (further review by editor) (16 Jun 2019) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Hu Liu on behalf of the Authors (26 Jun 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (19 Jul 2019) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Hu Liu on behalf of the Authors (30 Aug 2019) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (11 Sep 2019) by Fuqiang Tian

RR by Jun Niu (07 Oct 2019)

RR by Anonymous Referee #1 (09 Oct 2019)

ED: Publish as is (21 Oct 2019) by Fuqiang Tian

AR by Hu Liu on behalf of the Authors (22 Oct 2019) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

A database of soil moisture measurements from the middle Heihe River basin of China was used to test the potential of a soil moisture database in estimating the soil water balance components (SWBCs). We determined SWBCs using a method that combined the soil water balance method and the inverse Richards equation. This work confirmed that relatively reasonable estimations of the SWBCs in coarse-textured sandy soils can be derived using soil moisture measurements.