Assessing the performance of a plastic optical fibre turbidity sensor for measuring post-fire erosion from plot to catchment scale

Keizer, J. J.; Martins, M. A. S.; Prats, S. A.; Santos, L. F.; Vieira, D. C. S.; Nogueira, R.; Bilro, L.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-641-2015

Articles | Volume 1, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-641-2015

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Advancements in data acquisition for soil erosion studies

https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-641-2015

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Articles | Volume 1, issue 2

Original research article

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24 Sep 2015

Original research article |

| 24 Sep 2015

Assessing the performance of a plastic optical fibre turbidity sensor for measuring post-fire erosion from plot to catchment scale

J. J. Keizer, M. A. S. Martins, S. A. Prats, L. F. Santos, D. C. S. Vieira, R. Nogueira, and L. Bilro

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C199: 'Review', Anonymous Referee #1, 28 May 2015
- AC C362: 'referee 1 - general and specific comments', Jan Jacob Keizer, 11 Aug 2015
RC C247: 'Review of manuscript SOILD-2-449-2015', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Jun 2015
- AC C364: 'referee 2 - general and detailled comments', Jan Jacob Keizer, 12 Aug 2015
RC C277: 'Review of Assessing the performance of a plastic optical fiber turbidity sensor for measuring post-fire erosion from plot to catchment scale', Anonymous Referee #3, 30 Jun 2015
- AC C368: 'referee 3 - general and specific comments', Jan Jacob Keizer, 12 Aug 2015

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish as is (14 Aug 2015) by Gema Guzmán

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (01 Sep 2015) by John Quinton (Executive editor)

AR by Jan Jacob Keizer on behalf of the Authors (12 Sep 2015) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

In this study, a novel plastic optical fibre turbidity sensor was exhaustively tested with a large set of runoff samples, mainly from a recently burnt area. The different types of samples from the distinct study sites revealed without exception an increase in normalized light loss with increasing sediment concentrations that agreed (reasonably) well with a power function. Nevertheless, sensor-based predictions of sediment concentration should ideally involve site-specific calibrations.