Interactive comment on “Nitrate leaching from short-hydroperiod floodplain soils” by B. Huber et al

centration. We did this because it is well established that the FC is driven by soil texture. However, to avoid confusion and to focus on our findings we removed the term “soil texture” when explaining the driving factors and used FC only. We remind that field capacity (crosses in Figure 4) were determined with the measurements of the matric potential and soil moisture from the relevant depth (10, 50 and 100 cm). We agree, when speaking about the field capacity, the term “volumetric water content” at FC might be confusing and not needed. In the method section it is already clearly stated that the FC is expressed in terms of VWC (see page 5667 line 11-12).