Remote monitoring of freeze-thaw transitions in arctic soils using the complex resistivity method

Vadose Zone Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Wu, Yuxin ^a   Hubbard, Susan S ^a   Ulrich, Craig ^a   Wullschleger, Stan D ^b  

^a LAWRENCE BERKELEY NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREEZING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ISOTHERMS; PERMAFROST; REMOTE CONTROL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

ARCTIC SOIL; BIOGEOCHEMICALS; COMPLEX RESISTIVITY; FREEZE/THAW; REMOTE MONITORING; RESISTIVITY METHODS; RESISTIVITY VARIATION; SOIL MATRICES; THAWING PROCESS; TRANSITION DYNAMICS;

THAWING;

ARCTIC ENVIRONMENT; CARBON CYCLE; ELECTRICAL RESISTIVITY; ELECTRODE; FREEZE-THAW CYCLE; GRAIN SIZE; MATRIX; MONITORING; PERMAFROST;

ALASKA; BARROW; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84874411518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15391663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2136/vzj2012.0062     Document Type: Article

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