Read full paper at: http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=50206#.VDICv1fHRK0 Author(s) Gerhard Kammerer 1 , Reinhard Nolz 1* , Marek Rodny 2 , Willibald Loiskandl 1 Affiliation(s) 1 Institute of Hydraulics and Rural Water Management, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Austria . 2 Institute of Hydrology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (IH SAS), Slovakia, Czechoslovakia . ABSTRACT Soil water sensors are commonly used to monitor water content and matric potential in order to study hydrological processes such as evaporation. Finding a proper sensor is sometimes difficult, especially for measurements in topsoil, where changes of temperature and soil water dynamics occur generally with great...
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