New paper in HESSD: The effect of spatial throughfall patterns on soil moisture patterns at the hillslope scale

Please feel free to discuss our newest paper in HESSD:

Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., Hopp, L., Savenije, H.H.G., and Pfister, L. (2012): The effect of spatial throughfall patterns on soil moisture patterns at the hillslope scale, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 9, 8625-8663.

New paper in HESSD: Partitioning of evaporation into transpiration, soil evaporation and interception: a combination of hydrometric measurements and stable isotope analyses

Please feel free to discuss newest paper of Samuel Sutanto et al. in HESSD:

Sutanto, S.J., Wenninger, J., Coenders-Gerrits, A.M.J., and Uhlenbrook, S. (2012): Partitioning of evaporation into transpiration, soil evaporation and interception: a combination of hydrometric measurements and stable isotope analyses, Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 9, 3657–3690.

PDF is not generated (LaTeX=>PS=>PDF) in TeXnicCenter

(often occurring problem with TUD-installation)

When using the build mode ‘Latex=>PS=>PDF’ and there is no PDF generated, but there is a .DVI-file and a .PS-file generated, TeXnicCenter is not able to convert a PS-file to a PDF-file. Likely, your build-settings are wrong.

  • Go to tab BUILD, then DEFINE OUTPUT PROFILES and select the profile “LaTeX=>PS=>PDF”.
  • Go to tab POSTPROCESSOR and click “Ghostscript (ps2pdf). In the Executable line write the location of ghostscript (e.g. C:\Program Files\GS\gs8.64\bin\gswin32c.exe). [if Ghostscript is not installed, first install it :)]

TeXnicCenter crashes when using JabRef

An annoying bug: when you have JabRef open and then start TeXnicCenter and try to run your code with a reference to your JabRef-database, TeXnicCenter crashes. I did not find any solution for it, but at least it helps to first open TeXnicCenter and then open JabRef. Don’t ask me why, but it often helps.

According to the bug-report it has to do with the link to your bib-file: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3042060&group_id=36323&atid=416430

See also: http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=371&p=1782

Arduino workshop “Build your own water sensor”

For the course “Measuring for water” (part of the minor “De Delta Denker“) thirty 3rd year Bachelor students had to develop their own sensor to measure something related to water. They used Arduino to control and process the data from the sensors. After one day getting acquainted with Arduino the students started to think about their own sensor. After three days of developing, constructing, and testing they came up with a wide variety of instruments. Tipping buckets, psychrometers to measure humidity, turbidity sensors, salt concentration meters, discharge meters, water level meters, were all developed in a short period of time. Below a short photo impression of the sensors.

See also the blog post of Rolf Hut: “Gecontroleerd klooien is een goede les” (in Dutch)

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Presentation ‘After rain comes sunshine: canopy and forest floor interception’ @Uni Freiburg, Germany

On 2nd of February 2012 I will give a colloquium presentation at the University of Freiburg (Institut für Hydrologie), Germany. The talk is entitled ‘After rain comes sunshine: canopy and forest floor interception’.

Further information can be found on http://www.hydro.uni-freiburg.de/veranstaltungen/kollq/

The presentation can be downloaded here

Getting started with LaTeX

Install the following programs (all freeware):

After installing TeXnicCenter, open TeXnicCenter and link it to the location where MikTeX is installed. For WindowsXP this is likely C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.x\miktex\bin\latex.exe.

Then go to ‘MikTeX options’ (through the start menu in Windows)  and click ‘Update formats’ on the General tab and set the ‘install packages on the fly’ on ‘yes’ or ‘ask first’.

Now, you are ready to start with LaTeX. A very good manual to learn the basics of LaTex can be found here.