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Work Package 1: Understanding surface heterogeneity - Field Campaign
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WP1: COMPLETED
The work package represents the initiation period of the project, during which the sensors for WP2 will be installed, and the data and research design for WP3 and WP4 will be prepared. WP2 needs a thoughtful strategy to identify the locations for the soil moisture probes and the sampling locations for the soil water isotopes that allows for capturing the local variability of heterogeneity in the soil at the five karst experimental laboratories (KELs) of the project. As they are located within strongly differing regions, the scale of “local” may vary according to the particular characteristics of the KELs. Similar to monitoring processes at the hillslope scale the extent of the monitoring network has to be adapted to the expected scale of processes variability. |
Location of the 5 Karst Experimental Laboratories (KELs)
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Global Karst Monitoring Program
As part of WP1 the field team consisting of Andreas, Romane, Tunde and Ben started in May 2018 with the experimental set-up of the global karst monitoring program. They have been installing ~500 soil moisture probes in 5 different climate regions to study evapotranspiration and recharge processes in karst.
As part of WP1 the field team consisting of Andreas, Romane, Tunde and Ben started in May 2018 with the experimental set-up of the global karst monitoring program. They have been installing ~500 soil moisture probes in 5 different climate regions to study evapotranspiration and recharge processes in karst.
Research project funded by the German Research Foundation
