This study includes a global sensitivity analysis of the water productivity model AquaCrop. The study rationale consisted in a comprehensive evaluation of the model and the formulation of guidelines for model simplification and efficient calibration. The global analysis comprehended a Morris screening followed by a variance-based Extended Fourier Amplitude Sensitivity Test (EFAST) under diverse...

In this paper, results from full-scale tests on a corrugated soil-steel flexible culvert for railway traffic are presented. The bridge was instrumented with strain gauges, accelerometers and displacement gauges, measuring the response from passing trains. The aim of the measurement campaign was to gain knowledge of the dynamic behaviour due to train induced vibrations, both of the bridge struct...

Calibration Functions for Estimating Soil Moisture from GPR Dielectric Constant Measurements Remke L. Van Dam a b a Michigan State University, Department of Geological Sciences , East Lansing , Michigan , USA b Queensland University of Technology, Science and Engineering Faculty, Institute for Future Environments , Brisbane , Queensland , Australia Accepted author version posted online: 04 Nov ...

[1] To make use of satellite microwave observations for estimating soil moisture, a dual‐pass land data assimilation system (DLDAS) is developed in this paper by incorporating a dual‐pass assimilation framework into the Community Land Model version 3 (CLM3). In the DLDAS, the model state (volumetric soil moisture content) and model parameters are jointly optimized using the gridded Advanced Mic...

One of the major factors contributing to surface water contamination in agricultural areas is the use of pesticides. The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) is a hydrologic model capable of simulating the fate and transport of pesticides in an agricultural watershed. The SWAT model was used in this study to estimate stream flow and atrazine (2-chloro-4-(ethylamino)-6-(isopropylamino)-s-triazi...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract A three-layer TOPMODEL is here constructed by integrating three components, diffusion wave approach into surface flow, soil moisture deficit into interflow and exponential recession curve function into base flow. Sensitivity analysis revea...

The community microwave emission model (CMEM) has been used to compute global L-band brightness temperatures at the top of the atmophere. The input data comprise surface fields from ECMWF’s 40-year Re-Analysis (ERA-40), vegetation data from the ECOCLIMAP data set, and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) soil data base. Modelled brightness temperatures have been compared against (histori...