Temporal stability of soil water content for a shallow and deep soil profile at a small catchment scale
Temporal stability of soil water content for a shallow and deep soil profile at a small catchment scale
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小流域尺度浅层和深层土壤剖面土壤含水量的时间稳定性
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2012-07
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通讯作者:
Yu Shuang'en
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作者:
She Dongli;Liu Yingying;Shao Ming'an;Luis Carlos Timm;Yu Shuang'en
Areal estimation of soil water content (SWC) from point measurements is important to characterize hydrological processes. One of the challenges is to develop sampling strategies for determining mean SWC of large areas with the minimum cost in time and money. In this paper, we use the concept of temporal stability, applied to a catchment with plaque mosaic landscape pattern, to test the existence of certain sample locations which consistently show mean behavior irrespective of soil wetness in the shallow and deep soil layers. Data from 70 sites in an experimental catchment of 0.66 km2 (Donggou catchment), on the Loess Plateau, China, were used to examine temporal stability of SWC for the 0-20 cm and 0-120 cm soil layers during a rainy season. Temporal stability analysis were conducted using four methods including cumulative frequency distributions, Spearman rank correlation coefficient (rs), mean relative differences (delta) and Pearson's correlation analysis. The spatial pattern of SWC across the entire catchment was generally temporally unstable, but a few sites were temporal stable. The temporal stability of spatial pattern indicated by rs decreased with increasing mean SWC. The lowest rs values were 0.508 and 0.812 respectively for 0-20 cm and 0-120 cm soil layers. The lowest rs values occurred during the transition periods between dry and wet conditions, when the profile was recharged markedly. The standard deviation of delta (sigma(delta)) ranged from 4.6% to 34.8% for 0-120 cm soil layer, lower than that of the shallow soil profile. Meanwhile, only 8 out of 70 sites for 0-20 cm soil layer but 32 sites for 0-120 cm soil depth had sigma (delta) lower than 10%, which indicated greater temporal stability of SWC of the deeper soil layer. The selected catchment average SWC monitoring locations were situated in land use of grassland or forage. Based on the highly significant correlation between the land use and both the spatial distributions of delta (%) and sigma (delta), land use may be a convenient criterion for locating SWC measurement locations for field mean or extremes estimation.
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