We explore and review the value of soil moisture measurements in vadose zone hydrology
with a focus on the field and catchment scales. This review is motivated by the increasing …

The remarkable complexity of soil and its importance to a wide range of ecosystem services
presents major challenges to the modeling of soil processes. Although major progress in soil …

Soil, through its various functions, plays a vital role in the Earth's ecosystems and provides
multiple ecosystem services to humanity. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are simple to complex …

In this paper, we review the state of the art of characterizing and analyzing spatio-temporal
dynamics of soil moisture content at the field scale. We discuss measurement techniques that …

… ,j |j=1,…,M} (S/m) of σ b ( y ̃ ,z) (Fig. 2) and a set of resistance data {r i |i=1,…,N} (V/A), m and
d are defined as(2) m j = ln σ b ,j … each model cell σ b,j of the parameterisation is represented …

In arable farming systems, the term ‘subsoil’ refers to the soil beneath the tilled or formerly
tilled soil horizon whereas the latter one is denoted as ‘topsoil’. To date, most agronomic and …

… Radial fluxes of root segments i located in a soil voxel j are summed to give the sink term
S … distribution after 7 d with constant water flux at the root collar J c = −10 cm 3 d −1 (Collar …

Soil hydrological processes (SHP) support ecosystems, modulate the impact of climate
change on terrestrial systems and control feedback mechanisms between water, energy and …

… Effect of flow rate (J w ) class and scale of the experiment on the dispersivity for the different
… indicate that leaching experiments in the flow rate class 1 < J w < 10 cm d −1 may well be …

This review covers, in a comprehensive manner, the approaches available in the literature to
upscale soil water processes and hydraulic parameters in the vadose zone. We distinguish …