BBAuthors: Brunetti, G.; Advisor: -; Participants: Šimůnek, J.; Bogena, H.; Baatz, R.; Huisman, J.A.; Dahlke, H.; Vereecken, H. (2019)
In recent years, cosmic‐ray neutron sensing (CRNS) has proven to be a reliable method for the estimation of area‐average soil moisture at field scales. However, its use in the inverse estimation of the effective SHPs is largely unexplored. Thus, the main objective of this study was to assess the information content of aboveground fast‐neutron counts to estimate SHPs using both a synthetic modeling study and actual experimental data from the Rollesbroich catchment in Germany. For this, the forward neutron operator COSMIC was externally coupled with the hydrological model HYDRUS‐1D. The coupled model was combined with the Affine Invariant Ensemble Sampler to calculate the posterior distributions of effective soil hydraulic parameters as well as the model‐predictive uncertainty for dif... 
