Nučice catchment

The Nučice catchment was established in 2011 as a long term monitoring site primarily focusing on studying water and sediment transport at headwater agricultural catchments with moderate slopes. Besides the long term monitoring, event-based campaigns were undertaken at the catchment, such as rainfall simulations, artificial flow wave experiments or geophysical monitoring. Currently the catchment is being equipped with soil water content probe network in order to study the soil water regime at the catchment scale.

Location:

30 km east from the capital Prague: 49°57'49.230"N, 14°52'13.242"E.

Climate

Humid continental climate, with average annual precipitation of 630 mm, evapotranspiration of 500–550 mm, and mean annual air temperature 6°C.

Soil:

Luvisols and Cambisols with a loamy Ap horizon (0.1–0.2 m deep) and underlain by a silty and silty-clay B horizon.

Data:

The meteorological, stream discharge and soil moisture data together with annual reports can be downloaded as a single ZIP file.

Related publications:

Noreika, N.; Li, T.; Winterová, J.; Krása, J.; Dostál, T. The Effects of Agricultural Conservation Practices on the Small Water Cycle: From the Farm- to the Management-Scale Land. 2022, 11(5), 1-16.

Jeřábek, J.; Zumr, D.; Dostál, T.; Tenreiro, T.R.; Strauss, P.; Vaverková, M.D. The effects of management practices and fires on soil water dynamics at three locations across Europe In: 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry. Como: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 2021. p. 197-202. vol. 175226. ISBN 978-1-6654-0533-1.

Li, T.; Jeřábek, J.; Zumr, D.; Noreika, N.; Dostál, T. Assessing spatial soil moisture patterns at a small agricultural catchment In: 2021 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Agriculture and Forestry. Como: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, 2021. p. 279-284. vol. 175226. ISBN 978-1-6654-0533-1.

Jeřábek, J.; Zumr, D. GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY AS A TOOL TO REVEAL SUBSURFACE STRATIFICATION AT A SMALL AGRICULTURAL HEADWATER CATCHMENT: A CASE STUDY. Civil Engineering Journal. 2021, 30(3), ISSN 1805-2576.

Li, T.; Jeřábek, J.; Noreika, N.; Dostál, T.; Zumr, D. An overview of hydrometeorological datasets from a small agricultural catchment (Nučice) in the Czech Republic. Hydrological Processes. 2021, 35(2), ISSN 1099-1085.

Noreika, N.; Li, T.; Zumr, D.; Krása, J.; Dostál, T.; Srinivasan, R. Farm-scale biofuel crop adoption and its effects on in-basin water balance. SUSTAINABILITY. 2020, 12(24), ISSN 2071-1050.

Gomez, J.A.; Ben-Gal, A.; Alarcon, J.; De Lannnoy, G.; De Roos, S.; Dostál, T.; Fereres, E.; Intrigliolo, D.S. et al. SHui, an EU-Chinese cooperative project to optimize soil and water management in agricultural areas in the XXI century International Soil and Water Conservation Research. 2020, 8(1), 1-14. ISSN 2095-6339.

Zumr, D.; Jeřábek, J.; Klípa, V.; Dohnal, M.; Sněhota, M. Estimates of tillage and rainfall effects on unsaturated hydraulic conductivity in a small central European agricultural catchment Water. 2019, 11(4), ISSN 2073-4441.

Zumr, D.; Dostál, T.; Devátý, J.; Valenta, P.; Rosendorf, P.; Eder, A.; Strauss, P. Experimental determination of the flood wave transformation and the sediment resuspension in a small regulated stream in an agricultural catchment Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 2017, 21(11), 5681-5691. ISSN 1027-5606.

Jeřábek, J.; Zumr, D.; Dostál, T. Identifying the plough pan position on cultivated soils by measurements of electrical resistivity and penetration resistance Soil & Tillage Research. 2017, 174 231-240. ISSN 0167-1987.

Zumr, D.; Dostál, T.; Devátý, J. Identification of prevailing storm runoff generation mechanisms in an intensively cultivated catchment Journal of Hydrology and Hydromechanics. 2015, 63(3), 246-254. ISSN 0042-790X.