(Proceedings of Symposium S7 held during the Seventh IAHS Scientific Assembly at Foz do Iguacu, Brazil, April 2005. IAHS Publication 303, 2006, pp. 7)
This paper presents the experimental work that was performed on the Haute-Mentue catchment in Switzerland in order to study the hydrological processes at different scales. First, an analysis of the hydrological response at the catchment scale was performed by means of environmental tracing, which enabled identification of two types of hydrological behaviour, mainly explained by the geological conditions. Second, two other experiments have been conducted at the hillslope scale, using the TDR method in order to monitor soil moisture variations at different depths along two typical topographical profiles on both morainic and molassic deposits. These experiments helped in identifying the mechanisms explaining the two different observed hydrological behaviours. Association of the two techniques led to a general conceptual model of two Haute-Mentue head subcatchments.
Environmental tracing, Hydrological conceptual models, Hydrological processes, TDR
