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            https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-365-2023
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                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-9-365-2023
                    © Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under 
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
                the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Reproducibility of the wet part of the soil water retention curve: a European interlaboratory comparison
Benjamin Guillaume
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
                                            
                                    
                                            Uliège – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
                                        
                                    Hanane Aroui Boukbida
                                            Instrumentation, Moyens Analytiques, observatoire en Géophysique et
Océanographie (UAR IMAGO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), 13002 Marseille, France
                                        
                                    Gerben Bakker
                                            Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
                                        
                                    Andrzej Bieganowski
                                            Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,  Lublin, Poland
                                        
                                    Yves Brostaux
                                            Uliège – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
                                        
                                    Wim Cornelis
                                            Ghent University, Gent, Belgium
                                        
                                    Wolfgang Durner
                                            Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
                                        
                                    Christian Hartmann
                                            Instrumentation, Moyens Analytiques, observatoire en Géophysique et
Océanographie (UAR IMAGO), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), 13002 Marseille, France
                                        
                                    Bo V. Iversen
                                            Department of Agroecology, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
                                        
                                    Mathieu Javaux
                                            UCLouvain, Earth and Life Institute,  Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
                                        
                                    Joachim Ingwersen
                                            Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Hohenheim, Germany
                                        
                                    Krzysztof Lamorski
                                            Institute of Agrophysics, Polish Academy of Sciences,  Lublin, Poland
                                        
                                    Axel Lamparter
                                            Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,  Hanover, Germany
                                        
                                    András Makó
                                            Department of Soil Physics and Water Management, Institute for Soil Sciences, Centre for Agricultural Research, Herman Ottó Street 15,
1022 Budapest, Hungary
                                        
                                    Ana María Mingot Soriano
                                            Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,   Uppsala, Sweden
                                        
                                    Ingmar Messing
                                            Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,   Uppsala, Sweden
                                        
                                    Attila Nemes
                                            Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research,  Ås, Norway
                                        
                                    Alexandre Pomes-Bordedebat
                                            Uliège – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
                                        
                                    Martine van der Ploeg
                                            Wageningen University and Research, Wageningen, Netherlands
                                        
                                    Tobias Karl David Weber
                                            Institute of Soil Science and Land Evaluation, University of Hohenheim, Hohenheim, Germany
                                        
                                    Lutz Weihermüller
                                            Agrosphere Institute IBG-3, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany
                                        
                                    Joost Wellens
                                            Uliège – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
                                        
                                    Aurore Degré
                                            Uliège – Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, TERRA Teaching and Research Centre, Passage des Déportés 2, 5030 Gembloux, Belgium
                                        
                                    Data sets
Data set of : "Reproducibility of the Wet Part of the Soil Water Retention Curve: A European Interlaboratory Comparison" Guillaume, Benjamin Aroui Boukbida, Hanane Bakker, Gerben Bieganowski, Andrzej Brostaux, Yves Cornelis, Wim Durner, Wolfgang Hartmann, Christian Iversen, Bo V. Javaux, Mathieu Ingwersen, Joachim Lamorski, Krzysztof Lamparter, Axel Makó, András Mingot Soriano, Ana María Messing, Ingmar Nemes, Attila Pomes-Bordedebat, Alexandre van der Ploeg, Martine Weber Karl David, Tobias Weihermüller, Lutz Wellens, Joost Degré, Aurore https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7943957
Short summary
            Measurements of soil water retention properties play an important role in a variety of societal issues that depend on soil water conditions. However, there is little concern about the consistency of these measurements between laboratories. We conducted an interlaboratory comparison to assess the reproducibility of the measurement of the soil water retention curve. Results highlight the need to harmonize and standardize procedures to improve the description of unsaturated processes in soils.
            Measurements of soil water retention properties play an important role in a variety of societal...
            
         
 
             
             
             
            