Nives Balenovic, doctoral student from Croatia working in a cooperation project from IKT Petzenkirchen, BOKU Vienna and CTU Prague, started recently her PhD about 'Kinetic energy of rainfall as driving force of soil detachment and transport' (also known as splash erosion).

She is doing her field…

Rasmiaditya Silasari recently published her paper in the journal 'Hydrological Processes'. The paper is about the potential of high temporal resolution time‐lapse photography for mapping the dynamics of saturation areas on the hillslope scale during natural rainfall.

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Giorgio Nicchi and Tommaso Picciafuoco, guests students from University of Perugia, Italy are continuing with infiltrometer measurements in the HOAL. Since now most of the parts of the catchment have been harvested recently, they can cover a large percentage of the catchment with the planned…

Currently the temporal soil net, which is measuring soil moisture and soil temperature down to 50cm below ground surface, is removed. The soil net was partly installed in the middle of agricultural used fields, currently wheat is growing there. Since the crop is harvested soon and soil tillage…

Last week several doctoral students of the doctoral programme were busy in the HOAL in repairing and maintaining equipment in the research catchment. Casings of data and power supply cables were checked for damages, which e.g. sometimes can occur by animals and were repaired. Also weathered logger…

Yesterday Patrick Hogan and Borbala Szeles have been in the field to calibrate the Eddy covariance devices. Borbala will now gradually take over the responsibilty for the weather station installations with the support of Patrick.

For the calibration a dew point generator was used. This device is…

Currently an infiltrometer measurement campaign is operated by Tommaso Picciafuoco (guest student from University of Perugia, Italy) at the HOAL catchment. With several Double Ring infiltrometer sets and one Csiro infiltrometer device he is determining the saturaded hydraulic conductivity on a grass…

Some days ago atmospheric scientist Patrick Hogan was in the field, supported by Matthias Oismüller, to maintain some of the weather station devices.

The present weather station (which is measuring raindrop distribution) and the mobile eddy covariance systems (evaporation) were checked and prepared…

Recently at the eight new ground water monitoring gauges, which were installed in Sepember 2016, diver sensors have been installed to permanently monitor the ground water level at these gauges.

The eight gauges are located at different representing spots in the catchment and were drilled from 15…

Currently the HOAL is still covered by a snow layer of 10cm or partly even more. In the next days warmer temperatures are predicted so we expect the melt of the snow and a rise of the discharge at the stream or even slight overland flow on the fields.

Therefore Matthias Oismüller and Markus…