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A distributed-temperature-sensing-based soil temperature profiler
Bart Schilperoort
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Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Netherlands eScience Center, Science Park 402, 1098 XH Amsterdam, the Netherlands
César Jiménez Rodríguez
Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Av. des Hauts-Fourneaux, 4362 Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
Bas van de Wiel
Department of Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
Miriam Coenders-Gerrits
Department of Water Management, Delft University of Technology, Stevinweg 1, 2628 CN Delft, the Netherlands
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César Dionisio Jiménez-Rodríguez, Miriam Coenders-Gerrits, Thom Bogaard, Erika Vatiero, and Hubert Savenije
Hydrol. Earth Syst. Sci. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-344, https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-2019-344, 2019
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Short summary
Heat storage in the soil is difficult to measure due to vertical heterogeneity. To improve measurements, we designed a 3D-printed probe that uses fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing to measure a vertical profile of soil temperature. We validated the temperature measurements against standard instrumentation. With the high-resolution data we were able to determine the thermal diffusivity of the soil at a resolution of 2.5 cm, which is much higher compared to traditional methods.
Heat storage in the soil is difficult to measure due to vertical heterogeneity. To improve...
