Quantitative Vadose Zone Hydrology using Ground-Penetrating Radar and Data Assimilation

• Applicant: Professor Dr. Kurt Roth
• Subject Area: Hydrogeology, Hydrology, Limnology, Urban Water Management, Water Chemistry, Integrated Water Resources Management
• Term: from 2014 to 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 252674700

We want to find out if and how experimentally accessible hard and soft information can be combined into a physics-based quantitative representation of field-scale soil hydrology, given the situation that process models, material properties, forcings, and observations are all incomplete and inaccurate to some degree.We approach this along three synergistic lines: (i) hydraulic experiments at a fully controlled artificial and at a natural test site, (ii) high-precision GPR- and TDR-measurements, (iii) constructive inversion and data assimilation.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants