Simultaneous Water Content, Air-Filled Porosity, and Bulk Density Measurements with Thermo-Time Domain Reflectometry
Simultaneous Water Content, Air-Filled Porosity, and Bulk Density Measurements with Thermo-Time Domain Reflectometry
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DOI:
10.2136/sssaj2001.1618
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发表时间:
2001-11
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
T. Ochsner;R. Horton;T. Ren
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作者:
T. Ochsner;R. Horton;T. Ren
mine the three-dimensional distribution of solids and water in laboratory soil cores (Phogat et al., 1991, RoThe partitioning of the soil volume between water, solids, and air gasik et al., 1999). Applications of these techniques are strongly influences many soil processes. In this paper we demonstrate a new approach to nondestructively measure this partitioning. A limited to laboratory settings and are further limited by thermo-time domain reflectometry (thermo-TDR) probe was inserted lack of access to the equipment. The limitations of curinto sandy loam soil and used to apply thermal and electromagnetic rent techniques create a need for new techniques to pulses and to monitor the transport of these pulses through the soil. measure the partitioning of the soil volume between We used the resulting data to determine the soil water content, air- water, solids, and air. filled porosity, and volume fraction of solids, as well as degree of Our new technique for determining the , vs, and the saturation and bulk density. When calibrated for this soil, the standard volume fraction of air in soil (na) follows from a unique errors between thermo-TDR measurements and gravimetric measure- combination of two widely accepted theories. The first ments were 0.02, 0.07, and 0.05 m 3 m 3 for water content, volume theory is that the thermal properties of a system are fraction of solids, and air-filled porosity, respectively. The standard related to the volume fractions of the individual compoerror for degree of saturation was 0.08 m 3 m 3 , and for bulk density