Technical note: Lessons from and best practices for the  deployment of the Soil Water Isotope Storage System

Havranek, Rachel E.; Snell, Kathryn; Kopf, Sebastian; Davidheiser-Kroll, Brett; Morris, Valerie; Vaughn, Bruce

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2951-2023

Articles | Volume 27, issue 15

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2951-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2951-2023

© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 27, issue 15

Technical note

|

10 Aug 2023

Technical note |

| 10 Aug 2023

Technical note: Lessons from and best practices for the deployment of the Soil Water Isotope Storage System

Rachel E. Havranek, Kathryn Snell, Sebastian Kopf, Brett Davidheiser-Kroll, Valerie Morris, and Bruce Vaughn

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-27-2951-2023-supplement

Data sets

Havranek et al., 2023 Data Repository R. E. Havranek, S. Kopf, K. E. Snell, B. Davidheiser-Kroll, B. Vaughn, and V. Morris https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/G3VSZ

Model code and software

Rhavranek/lablogger_swiss: Havranek et al., 2023 Release (v0.2.0) S. Kopf and R. Havranek https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8213206

Short summary

We present an automated, field-ready system that collects soil water vapor for stable isotope analysis. This system can be used to determine soil water evolution through time, which is helpful for understanding crop water use, water vapor fluxes to the atmosphere, and geologic proxy development. Our system can automatically collect soil water vapor and then store it for up to 30 d, which allows researchers to collect datasets from historically understudied, remote locations.