We are excited to see this research available as a preprint and open for community discussion.
Led by Christina Song, Micheline Campbell and myself, we reanalyse data collected as part of a fire experiment. Cave monitoring before and after an intense fire included hydrology measurements. However, they were not analysed to determine how much rainfall was needed for water to percolate into the cave, and whether this changed after the fire.
Our reanalysis of the data shows that less rainfall was needed for the potential recharge to occur, and that this was not immediately after the fire.
Want to find out more? The research article (MS No.: egusphere-2025-84) is now accessible and open for interactive public discussion until 23 Apr 2025 at: https://egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/2025/egusphere-2025-84/
The reference: Song, C., Campbell, M., and Baker, A.: Rainfall recharge thresholds decrease after an intense fire over a near-surface cave at Wombeyan, Australia, EGUsphere [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-84, 2025.
Andy Baker 
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