Updated European hydraulic pedotransfer functions with communicated uncertainties in the predicted variables (euptfv2)

Szabó, Brigitta; Weynants, Melanie; Weber, Tobias K. D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-151-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-151-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-151-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Development and technical paper

|

12 Jan 2021

Development and technical paper |

| 12 Jan 2021

Updated European hydraulic pedotransfer functions with communicated uncertainties in the predicted variables (euptfv2)

Brigitta Szabó, Melanie Weynants, and Tobias K. D. Weber

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-151-2021-supplement

Model code and software

R package of updated European hydraulic pedotransfer functions (euptf2) T. K. D. Weber, M. Weynants, and B. Szabó, https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.4281045

Scripts of updated European hydraulic pedotransfer functions (euptfv2) B. Szabó, M. Weynants, and T. K. D. Weber https://doi.org/10.5281/ZENODO.3759442

Web interface for European hydraulic pedotransfer functions (euptfv2) B. Szabó, D. Gyurkó, M. Weynants, and T. K. D. Weber https://doi.org/10.34977/euptfv2.01

Short summary

This paper presents updated European prediction algorithms (euptf2) to compute soil hydraulic parameters from easily available soil properties. The new algorithms lead to significantly better predictions and provide a built-in prediction uncertainty computation. The influence of predictor variables on predicted soil hydraulic properties is explored and practical guidance on how to use the derived PTFs is provided. A website and an R package facilitate easy application of the updated predictions.