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Chapter 4 Temporal stability of soil moisture and its application in model result validation<br />
According to the definition of MRD (Eq. 1), the site where values of MRD<br />
less or more than 0 indicate that it is drier or wetter than the field average<br />
moisture content. The results show a strong temporal persistence for any water<br />
conditions at each plot, e.g. slightly drier points could be tracked throughout the<br />
whole sampling period. This is exemplified by WG (Fig. 6), where the dry points<br />
with an MRD from –10.1 to 0% maintain nearly constant for any water conditions.<br />
That is, 40 points (i.e. the dry sampling locations) are systematically below the<br />
mean value. This is in accordance with Martínez-Fernández and Ceballos (2003)<br />
who also reported that the overall characteristics of the time stable points, i.e.<br />
either a wet, average or dry location, persisted for almost all sampling sites. In<br />
general, the points selected in dry conditions still retain their time-stable<br />
characteristics in wet conditions. Normally, such points are those that can be<br />
used to validate the hydraulic model according to time stability concept.<br />
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Fig. 4.6. Distribution of drier points than overall average moisture content in WG <strong>und</strong>er<br />
different water conditions during 3-yr measurement period (All: all measurements, D: dry, M:<br />
medium, W: wet; labeled numbers are the points that soil moisture drier than field average<br />
moisture content).<br />
To choose the representative of TSPs for the model validation, we identified<br />
those points closest to the zero MRD and simultaneously had the lowest<br />
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