Details zur Publikation |
| Kategorie | Textpublikation |
| Referenztyp | Zeitschriften |
| DOI | 10.1029/2021GL093924 |
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| Titel (primär) | Neutrons on rails: Transregional monitoring of soil moisture and snow water equivalent |
| Autor | Schrön, M.; Oswald, S.E.; Zacharias, S.; Kasner, M.; Dietrich, P.
; Attinger, S. |
| Quelle | Geophysical Research Letters |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2021 |
| Department | CHS; MET |
| Band/Volume | 48 |
| Heft | 24 |
| Seite von | e2021GL093924 |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Topic | T5 Future Landscapes |
| Daten-/Softwarelinks | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5722434 |
| Supplements | https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/action/downloadSupplement?doi=10.1029%2F2021GL093924&file=2021GL093924-sup-0001-Supporting+Information+SI-S01.pdf |
| Keywords | soil moisture; trans-regional; multi-scale; snow water equivalent; cosmic-ray neutron sensing; railway |
| UFZ Querschnittsthemen | TERENO; MOSES; |
| Abstract | Large-scale measurements of the spatial distribution of water content in soils and snow are challenging for state-of-the-art hydrogeophysical methods. Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is a non-invasive technology that has the potential to bridge the scale gap between conventional in-situ sensors and remote-sensing products in both, horizontal and vertical domains. In this study we explore the feasibility and potential of estimating water content in soils and snow with neutron detectors in moving trains. Theoretical considerations quantify the stochastic measurement uncertainty as a function of water content, altitude, resolution, and detector efficiency. Numerical experiments demonstrate that the sensitivity of measured water content is almost unperturbed by train materials. And finally three distinct real world experiments provide a proof of concept on short and long-range tracks. With our results a trans-regional observational soil moisture product becomes a realistic vision within the next years. |
| dauerhafte UFZ-Verlinkung | https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=20939&ufzPublicationIdentifier=25454 |
| Schrön, M., Oswald, S.E., Zacharias, S., Kasner, M., Dietrich, P., Attinger, S. (2021): Neutrons on rails: Transregional monitoring of soil moisture and snow water equivalent Geophys. Res. Lett. 48 (24), e2021GL093924 10.1029/2021GL093924 |
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