Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in the Netherlands  using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

Buitink, Joost; Swank, Anne M.; van der Ploeg, Martine; Smith, Naomi E.; Benninga, Harm-Jan F.; van der Bolt, Frank; Carranza, Coleen D. U.; Koren, Gerbrand; van der Velde, Rogier; Teuling, Adriaan J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-6021-2020

Articles | Volume 24, issue 12

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-6021-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-24-6021-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 24, issue 12

Research article

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21 Dec 2020

Research article |

| 21 Dec 2020

Anatomy of the 2018 agricultural drought in the Netherlands using in situ soil moisture and satellite vegetation indices

Joost Buitink, Anne M. Swank, Martine van der Ploeg, Naomi E. Smith, Harm-Jan F. Benninga, Frank van der Bolt, Coleen D. U. Carranza, Gerbrand Koren, Rogier van der Velde, and Adriaan J. Teuling

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RC1: 'Review of research article hess-2020-358-manuscript-version1', Anonymous Referee #1, 14 Sep 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to AR1', Joost Buitink, 14 Oct 2020
RC2: 'Relation between soil moisture and vegetation indexes', Anonymous Referee #2, 06 Oct 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to AR2', Joost Buitink, 14 Oct 2020

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (14 Oct 2020) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Joost Buitink on behalf of the Authors (30 Oct 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (15 Nov 2020) by Nunzio Romano

AR by Joost Buitink on behalf of the Authors (19 Nov 2020)

Short summary

The amount of water stored in the soil is critical for the productivity of plants. Plant productivity is either limited by the available water or by the available energy. In this study, we infer this transition point by comparing local observations of water stored in the soil with satellite observations of vegetation productivity. We show that the transition point is not constant with soil depth, indicating that plants use water from deeper layers when the soil gets drier.