BBAuthors: Hess, L.J.T.; Advisor: -; Participants: Hinckley, E.S.; Robertson, G.P.; Hamilton, S.K.; Matson, P.A. (2018)
We compared the effects of larger, less frequent rain events (“intensified” rainfall) vs. smaller, more frequent rain events (“normal” rainfall) on soil water content and deep percolation. The effect of intensified rainfall on the volumetric water content (VWC) of soil at the 10‐cm depth during the experiment varied seasonally: in spring, intensified rainfall decreased the average VWC at the 10‐cm depth by 0.05 ± 0.01 cm3 cm−3 compared with normal rainfall, but in summer and fall, it had no effect. In soil at the 100‐cm depth, VWC declined during the summer in normal but not intensified plots. A surface‐added Br− tracer was detected and peaked earlier in soil water at 120 cm under int... 
