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Articles | Volume 28, issue 4
Articles | Volume 28, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-989-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-28-989-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 28, issue 4
Technical note
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28 Feb 2024
Technical note |  | 28 Feb 2024

Technical Note: Revisiting the general calibration of cosmic-ray neutron sensors to estimate soil water content

Maik Heistermann, Till Francke, Martin Schrön, and Sascha E. Oswald

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Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is a non-invasive technique used to obtain estimates of soil water content (SWC) at a horizontal footprint of around 150 m and a vertical penetration depth of up to 30 cm. However, typical CRNS applications require the local calibration of a function which converts neutron counts to SWC. As an alternative, we propose a generalized function as a way to avoid the use of local reference measurements of SWC and hence a major source of uncertainty.
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