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Monitoring of Water Content Distributions inside a Lysimeter with GPR-Tomography

Description: Das Projekt "Monitoring of Water Content Distributions inside a Lysimeter with GPR-Tomography" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Angewandte Geowissenschaften, Fachgebiet Angewandte Geophysik (mit Schwerpunkt Umwelt- und Ingenieurgeophysik) durchgeführt. A lysimeter is a vessel containing soil placed with its top edge to the ground surface. Lysimeter are used to study phases of the hydrological cycle in terms of water content and dynamics, e.g. infiltration, evapotranspiration or runoff. Lysimeter provide a good alternative to carry out and test various methods or theoretical theories under relative undisturbed circumstances. In cooperation with the Institute of Chemistry and Dynamics of the Geosphere, IV Agrosphere (ICG-IV) of the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, the solute transport inside a lysimeter ought to be investigated.To avoid the inevitable problem of the boundary conditions for electromagnetic geophysical methods of a normal lysimeter with its metal wall, an alternative had to be found. Therefore PVC-cylinders were chosen with 1.5 m height and 1.2 m diameter. The dielectric permittivity of soils depends strongly on the water content. Therefore, GPR was used as it can provide non-invasive high-resolution information regarding the distribution of the dielectric permittivity of a heterogeneous medium. Because the used lysimeter has PVC walls tomographic measurements can be performed. Considering the relatively small dimensions of the lysimeter (1.2m diameter, 1.5m height) and the armament with sensors for other methods, a pair of shielded antennas was chosen with centre frequencies of approx. 750 MHz. In April and September 2002 first measurements were carried out on a filled but unequipped lysimeter to check signal quality, feasibility as well as the needed time to gather a dataset under ideal conditions. Furthermore pot irrigation tests were made in 2002 and 2004 to estimate the actual resolution with the available equipment. To derive the volumetric water content, the calculated dielectric permittivity values have to be transformed. Based on the soil inside the lysimeter (approx. 80% sand, 15% silt and 5% clay with approx. 40% porosity) appropriate mixing formulas for bulk dielectric permittivity have to be chosen and compared to the results gathered from alternative methods.

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Tags: Jülich ? Messgerät ? Polyvinylchlorid ? Berlin ? Evapotranspiration ? Sensor ? Brunnen ? Munition ? Infiltration ? Lehmboden ? Lysimetrie ? Topographie ? Metall ? Sand ? Schluff ? Messung ? Bewässerung ? Geophysik ? Monitoring ? Schiff ? Studie ? Wassergehalt ? Wasserkreislauf ? Wasser ? Boden ? Bedarf ? Erdoberfläche ? Forschungseinrichtung ? Zusammenarbeit ? Verkehr ? Geosphäre ? ZUSCHUETTUNG ? BEWERTEN ? ERGEBNIS ? GRENZE ? GUETER ? LOESUNG ? METHODE ? MISCHEN ? Mittel ? NICHT GESTOERT ? Porosität ? SAEULE ? SONSTIG ? STARK ? Theorie ? UNTER ? UNTERSUCHUNG ? VERFRACHTUNG ? VERFUEGBAR ? VERGLEICHEN ? VERHAELTNIS ? VERTEILUNG ? WAND ? WERT ? AUSRUESTUNG ? BEZUG ? Bemessung ? DATENSATZ ? DAUER ?

Region: Berlin

Bounding box: 10.44987° .. 10.44987° x 54.03573° .. 54.03573°

License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0

Language: Deutsch

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Time ranges: 2002-01-01 - 2005-12-31

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