Calibration and correction procedures for cosmic-ray neutron soil moisture probes located across Australia

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5029-5043

  Hawdon, Aaron ^a   McJannet, David ^a   Wallace, Jim ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australian soils; cosmic ray probe; soil moisture; universal calibration

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; COSMIC RAYS; NEUTRONS; PROBES; SOIL MOISTURE;

CALIBRATION FUNCTIONS; CORRECTION PROCEDURE; MEASUREMENT CORRECTIONS; MULTIPLE CALIBRATION; NEUTRON COUNT RATES; NEUTRON INTENSITIES; SOIL MOISTURE PROBES; UNIVERSAL CALIBRATION;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84902734476     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013WR015138     Document Type: Article

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