Signal processing for in situ detection of effective heat pulse probe spacing radius as the basis of a self-calibrating heat pulse probe

Kinar, Nicholas J.; Pomeroy, John W.; Si, Bing

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-293-2020

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-293-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-9-293-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 2

Research article

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16 Jul 2020

Research article |

| 16 Jul 2020

Signal processing for in situ detection of effective heat pulse probe spacing radius as the basis of a self-calibrating heat pulse probe

Nicholas J. Kinar, John W. Pomeroy, and Bing Si

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Final revised paper (published on 16 Jul 2020)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 Feb 2020)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'minor modifications', Anonymous Referee #1, 06 May 2020
- AC1: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #1', Nicholas Kinar, 06 May 2020
RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Stephen Drake, 16 May 2020
- AC3: 'Response to Stephen Drake', Nicholas Kinar, 05 Jun 2020
RC3: 'suggestions', Anonymous Referee #3, 20 May 2020
- AC2: 'Response to Anonymous Referee #3', Nicholas Kinar, 05 Jun 2020

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

AR by Nicholas Kinar on behalf of the Authors (05 Jun 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (23 Jun 2020) by Lev Eppelbaum

AR by Nicholas Kinar on behalf of the Authors (23 Jun 2020)

Short summary

Heat pulse probes are widely used to monitor soil thermal and physical properties for agricultural and hydrological monitoring related to crop productivity, drought, snowmelt, and evapotranspiration. Changes in the effective probe spacing distance can cause measurement inaccuracy. This paper uses a novel heat pulse probe and theory to compensate for changes in effective distance, thereby enabling more accurate sensor outputs useful for forecasts and predictions of drought and flooding.