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Research article
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25 May 2020
Research article |
| 25 May 2020
| 25 May 2020
Soil moisture: variable in space but redundant in time
Institute for Water and River Basin Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Sibylle K. Hassler
Institute for Water and River Basin Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Theresa Blume
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Section Hydrology, Potsdam, Germany
Markus Weiler
Hydrology, Faculty of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany
Erwin Zehe
Institute for Water and River Basin Management, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
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Short summary
We could show that distributed soil moisture time series bear a considerable amount of information about dynamic changes in soil moisture. We developed a new method to describe spatial patterns and analyze their persistency. By combining uncertainty propagation with information theory, we were able to calculate the information content of spatial similarity with respect to measurement uncertainty. This does help to understand when and why the soil is drying in an organized manner.
We could show that distributed soil moisture time series bear a considerable amount of...
