Articles | Volume 25, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6547-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-25-6547-2021
Research article
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22 Dec 2021
Research article |  | 22 Dec 2021

Towards disentangling heterogeneous soil moisture patterns in cosmic-ray neutron sensor footprints

Daniel Rasche, Markus Köhli, Martin Schrön, Theresa Blume, and Andreas Güntner

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Interactive discussion

Status: closed

Comment types: AC – author | RC – referee | CC – community | EC – editor | CEC – chief editor | : Report abuse
  • RC1: 'reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 30 Apr 2021
  • RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 07 May 2021
  • RC3: 'Comment on hess-2021-202', Anonymous Referee #3, 12 May 2021
  • RC4: 'Comment on hess-2021-202', Anonymous Referee #4, 02 Jun 2021
  • EC1: 'Comment on hess-2021-202 - Start interacting', Nunzio Romano, 02 Jun 2021

Peer review completion

AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision
ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (28 Jun 2021) by Nunzio Romano
AR by Daniel Rasche on behalf of the Authors (23 Aug 2021)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (02 Sep 2021) by Nunzio Romano
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (19 Sep 2021)
RR by Anonymous Referee #3 (11 Oct 2021)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (21 Oct 2021) by Nunzio Romano
AR by Daniel Rasche on behalf of the Authors (09 Nov 2021)  Author's response    Author's tracked changes    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (12 Nov 2021) by Nunzio Romano
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Short summary
Cosmic-ray neutron sensing provides areal average soil moisture measurements. We investigated how distinct differences in spatial soil moisture patterns influence the soil moisture estimates and present two approaches to improve the estimate of soil moisture close to the instrument by reducing the influence of soil moisture further afield. Additionally, we show that the heterogeneity of soil moisture can be assessed based on the relationship of different neutron energies.