“…One of the main factors behind this knowledge gap is the lack of data sets that allows full disentanglement of water flow and mixing processes in the subsurface (Vereecken et al, ). The use of hydrometric information (e.g., soil moisture and/or matric potential data) has been helpful to identify, for example, (a) spatial and/or temporal dynamics of soil moisture (Blume, Zehe, & Bronstert, ; Hasegawa & Eguchi, ), (b) hydrometeorological controls on soil moisture response during rainfall events (Tenelanda‐Patiño, Crespo‐Sánchez, & Mosquera‐Rojas, ), (c) subsurface flow processes (Eguchi & Hasegawa, ; Hasegawa & Sakayori, ), and (d) the effects of land use and/or land cover change in soil moisture dynamics (Dec et al, ; Montenegro‐Díaz, Ochoa‐Sánchez, & Célleri, ) in plots and hillslopes underlain by Andosols. Nevertheless, hydrometric observations alone are insufficient to shed light on water mixing and aging within these soils.…”