Study Region: Europe. A total of 660, 522, and 4940 soil samples belonging to GRIZZLY, HYPRES, and EU-HYDI databases, respectively, were used for parametric evaluation. The functional evaluation was performed in two study sites located in southern Italy. Study Focus: The soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions are crucial input information to land surface models. Determining these functions by using direct methods is hampered by excessive time and unaffordable costs required for field activities and laboratory analyses. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are widely-used indirect techniques enabling the soil hydraulic properties to be predicted by using easily-retrievable soil information. In a parametric evaluation, the predictive capability of PTFs is examined by comparing measured and estimated soil water retention parameters and saturated hydraulic conductivity. Yet, information about the performance of PTFs for specific modeling applications is mandatory to evaluate the PTF effectiveness more in-depth. This approach is commonly defined as functional evaluation. New Hydrological Insights for the Region: The best performing four PTFs selected in the parametric evaluations are tested under two functional evaluations. The first encompasses a spatial interpolation with a geostatistical technique, whereas the second employs Hydrus-1D to simulate the water balance components along an experimental transect. Our results reinforce and integrate the insights of previous studies about the use of a PTF and stress on the ability, or inability, of this technique to adequately reproduce the observed spatial variability of the soil hydraulic properties and simulated water fluxes.

Evaluation of pedotransfer functions for predicting soil hydraulic properties: A voyage from regional to field scales across Europe / Nasta, Paolo; Szabó, Brigitta; Romano, Nunzio. - In: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY. REGIONAL STUDIES. - ISSN 2214-5818. - 37:(2021), pp. 1-20. [10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100903]

Evaluation of pedotransfer functions for predicting soil hydraulic properties: A voyage from regional to field scales across Europe.

Nasta Paolo
Primo
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Romano Nunzio
Ultimo
Conceptualization
2021

Abstract

Study Region: Europe. A total of 660, 522, and 4940 soil samples belonging to GRIZZLY, HYPRES, and EU-HYDI databases, respectively, were used for parametric evaluation. The functional evaluation was performed in two study sites located in southern Italy. Study Focus: The soil water retention and hydraulic conductivity functions are crucial input information to land surface models. Determining these functions by using direct methods is hampered by excessive time and unaffordable costs required for field activities and laboratory analyses. Pedotransfer functions (PTFs) are widely-used indirect techniques enabling the soil hydraulic properties to be predicted by using easily-retrievable soil information. In a parametric evaluation, the predictive capability of PTFs is examined by comparing measured and estimated soil water retention parameters and saturated hydraulic conductivity. Yet, information about the performance of PTFs for specific modeling applications is mandatory to evaluate the PTF effectiveness more in-depth. This approach is commonly defined as functional evaluation. New Hydrological Insights for the Region: The best performing four PTFs selected in the parametric evaluations are tested under two functional evaluations. The first encompasses a spatial interpolation with a geostatistical technique, whereas the second employs Hydrus-1D to simulate the water balance components along an experimental transect. Our results reinforce and integrate the insights of previous studies about the use of a PTF and stress on the ability, or inability, of this technique to adequately reproduce the observed spatial variability of the soil hydraulic properties and simulated water fluxes.
2021
Evaluation of pedotransfer functions for predicting soil hydraulic properties: A voyage from regional to field scales across Europe / Nasta, Paolo; Szabó, Brigitta; Romano, Nunzio. - In: JOURNAL OF HYDROLOGY. REGIONAL STUDIES. - ISSN 2214-5818. - 37:(2021), pp. 1-20. [10.1016/j.ejrh.2021.100903]
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