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Research article
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22 Dec 2021
Research article |
| 22 Dec 2021
| 22 Dec 2021
Towards disentangling heterogeneous soil moisture patterns in cosmic-ray neutron sensor footprints
Daniel Rasche
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Section Hydrology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Markus Köhli
Physikalisches Institut, Heidelberg University, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
Physikalisches Institut, University of Bonn, Nussallee 12, 53115 Bonn, Germany
Martin Schrön
Department of Monitoring and Exploration Technologies, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research GmbH – UFZ, Permoserstr. 15, 04318 Leipzig, Germany
Theresa Blume
Section Hydrology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Andreas Güntner
Section Hydrology, GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, 14473 Potsdam, Germany
Institute of Environmental Sciences and Geography, University of Potsdam, 14476 Potsdam, Germany
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Short summary
Cosmic-ray neutron sensing provides areal average soil moisture measurements. We investigated how distinct differences in spatial soil moisture patterns influence the soil moisture estimates and present two approaches to improve the estimate of soil moisture close to the instrument by reducing the influence of soil moisture further afield. Additionally, we show that the heterogeneity of soil moisture can be assessed based on the relationship of different neutron energies.
Cosmic-ray neutron sensing provides areal average soil moisture measurements. We investigated...
