About the Authors

Shmuel Assouline

vwshmuel@agri.gov.il

Affiliation Department of Environmental Physics and Irrigation, Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences, A.R.O.-Volcani Center, Bet Dagan, Israel

Dani Or

Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences (D-UWIS), Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems (ITES), Soil and Terrestrial Environmental Physics (STEP), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SA DO. Performed the experiments: SA DO. Analyzed the data: SA DO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SA DO. Wrote the paper: SA DO.