Soil moisture sensor calibration for organic soil surface layers

Bircher, Simone; Andreasen, Mie; Vuollet, Johanna; Vehviläinen, Juho; Rautiainen, Kimmo; Jonard, François; Weihermüller, Lutz; Zakharova, Elena; Wigneron, Jean-Pierre; Kerr, Yann H.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-5-109-2016

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29 Apr 2016

Research article |

| 29 Apr 2016

Soil moisture sensor calibration for organic soil surface layers

Simone Bircher, Mie Andreasen, Johanna Vuollet, Juho Vehviläinen, Kimmo Rautiainen, François Jonard, Lutz Weihermüller, Elena Zakharova, Jean-Pierre Wigneron, and Yann H. Kerr

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RC C146: 'Review', Mike Schwank, 14 Jan 2016
- AC C227: 'Answer referee comments 1', Simone Bircher, 02 Mar 2016
RC C181: 'gi-2015-27 Soil moisture sensor calibration for organic soil surface layers S. Bircher et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Feb 2016
- AC C238: 'Answer referee comments 2', Simone Bircher, 02 Mar 2016

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At the Finnish Meteorological Institute in Sodankylä and the Danish Center for Hydrology, calibration functions for organic surface layers were derived for two in situ soil moisture sensors to be used in the validation of coarse-resolution soil moisture from satellites and land surface models. There was no clear difference in the data from a variety of humus types, strengthening confidence that these calibrations are applicable over a wide range of conditions as encountered in the large areas.