Field testing of the universal calibration function for determination of soil moisture with cosmic-ray neutrons

Water Resources Research

Volumn 50, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 5235-5248

  McJannet, David ^a   Franz, Trenton ^b   Hawdon, Aaron ^a   Boadle, Dave ^a   Baker, Brett ^a   Almeida, Auro ^a   Silberstein, Richard ^a   Lambert, Trish ^a   Desilets, Darin ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^c Hydroinnova LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

biomass; cosmic ray neutron; hydrogen molar fraction; soil moisture; universal calibration function

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CALIBRATION; CODES (SYMBOLS); COSMIC RAYS; GEOMAGNETISM; HYDROGEN; MEASUREMENTS; NEUTRON DETECTORS; NEUTRONS; SENSORS; SOIL MOISTURE;

COSMIC RAY NEUTRON; DETECTOR GEOMETRY; EPITHERMAL NEUTRON; FIELD MEASUREMENT; MOLAR FRACTIONS; NEUTRON INTENSITIES; STRONG CORRELATION; UNIVERSAL CALIBRATION;

SOIL SURVEYS;

EID: 84903221201     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: 19447973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014WR015513     Document Type: Article

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