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Recent Submissions
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Wu, Monica Y.; Smits, Kathleen M.; Goltz, Mark N.; Christ, John A. (Wiley; National Ground Water Association, 2008-12-03)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Implementation of injection-extraction treatment well pairs for in situ, in-well, or on-site remediation may be facilitated by development and application of modeling ...
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Sakaki, Toshihiro; Limsuwat, Anuchit; Smits, Kathleen M.; Illangasekare, Tissa H. (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2008-11-18)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Recently improved ECH2O soil moisture sensors have received significant attention in many field and laboratory applications. Focusing on the EC-5 sensor, a simple ...
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Smits, Kathleen M.; Cihan, Abdullah; Sakaki, Toshihiro; Illangasekare, Tissa H. (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2011-05-27)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In the shallow subsurface immediately below the land-atmosphere interface, it is widely recognized that the movement of water vapor is closely coupled to thermal ...
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Smits, Kathleen M.; Ngo, Viet V.; Cihan, Abdullah; Sakaki, Toshihiro; Illangasekare, Tissa H. (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2012-12-22)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Bare soil evaporation is a key process for water exchange between the land and the atmosphere and an important component of the water balance. However, there is no ...
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Trautz, Andrew C.; Smits, Kathleen M.; Schulte, Paul; Illangasekare, Tissa H. (Soil Science Society of America; Geological Society of America; Wiley Open Access, 2013-12-19)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: A combined heat-pulse and sensible heat balance method can be used to determine evaporation using temperature measurements and thermal property estimations. The ...
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Dong, Yi; Lu, Ning; Wayllace, Alexandra; Smits, Kathleen (ASTM International, 2014-09-19)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Thermal conductivity of unsaturated soil depends on soil water content and soil type. A transient water release and imbibition method (TRIM) is modified to include ...
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Davarzani, Hossein; Smits, Kathleen; Tolene, Ryan M. T; Illangasekare, Tissa (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2014-01-27)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In an effort to develop methods based on integrating the subsurface to the atmospheric boundary layer to estimate evaporation, we developed a model based on the ...
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Smits, Kathleen; Eagen, Victoria; Trautz, Andrew (MyJove Corporation, 2015-06-08)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Evaporation is directly influenced by the interactions between the atmosphere, land surface and soil subsurface. This work aims to experimentally study evaporation ...
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Trautz, Andrew C.; Smits, Kathleen M.; Cihan, Abdullah (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2015-09-03)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Evaporation and condensation in bare soils govern water and energy fluxes between the land and atmosphere. Phase change between liquid water and water vapor is ...
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Fetzer, Thomas; Smits, Kathleen M.; Helmig, Rainer (Springer, 2016-03-09)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The interactions between turbulent free flow and flow in a porous medium are of key interest in different fields, e.g., meteorology, agriculture, building physics, ...
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Wallen, Benjamin M.; Smits, Kathleen M.; Sakaki, Toshihiro; Howington, Stacy E.; Chamindu Deepagoda, T.K.K. (Soil Science Society of America; Wiley, 2016-06-24)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: A soil’s grain-size distribution affects its physical and hydraulic properties; however, little is known about its effect on soil thermal properties. To better ...
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Moradi, Ali; Smits, Kathleen M.; Lu, Ning; McCartney, John S. (Soil Science Society of America; Geological Society of America; Wiley Open Access, 2016-09-29)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In this study, we numerically and experimentally evaluated heat transfer in soils under unsaturated conditions in the context of simulating a laboratory-scale, ...
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Vanderborght, Jan; Fetzer, Thomas; Mosthaf, Klaus; Smits, Kathleen M.; Helmig, Rainer (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2017-02-03)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: In an accompanying paper, we presented an overview of a wide variety of modeling concepts, varying in complexity, used to describe evaporation from soil. Using ...
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Vanderborght, Jan; Fetzer, Thomas; Mosthaf, Klaus; Smits, Kathleen M.; Helmig, Rainer (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2017-02-03)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Evaporation is an important component of the soil water balance. It is composed of water flow and transport processes in a porous medium that are coupled with heat ...
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Chamindu Deepagoda, T.K.K.; Smits, Kathleen; Jayarathne, J.R.R.N.; Wallen, Benjamin M.; Clough, Timothy J. (Soil Science Society of America; Geological Society of America; Wiley Open Access, 2018-08-23)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Characterization of differently textured porous materials, as well as different volumetric porous media mixtures, in relation to mass and heat transport is vital ...
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Moradi, Ali; Smits, Kathleen M.; Sharp, Jonathan O. (MDPI, 2018-09-20)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: This paper presents a novel method to couple an environmental bioremediation system with a subsurface renewable energy storage system. This method involves treating ...
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Li, Zhen; Vanderborght, Jan; Smits, Kathleen M. (Springer, 2018-09-17)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Soil water evaporation plays a critical role in mass and energy exchanges across the land–
atmosphere interface. Although much is known about this process, there ...
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Bahlmann, L. M.; Smits, K. M.; Heck, K.; Coltman, E.; Helmig, R.; Neuweiler, I. (Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2020-08-03)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: We investigate the influence of near-surface wind conditions on subsurface gas transport and on soil-atmosphere gas exchange for gases of different density. Results ...
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Shanujah, M.; Chamindu Deepagoda, T.K.K.; Karunarathna, A. K.; Nasvi, M. C. M.; Shreedharan, V.; Babu, G. L. S.; Smits, Kathleen M.; Oldenburg, Curtis M. (Soil Science Society of America; Wiley, 2020-05-24)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Open dumps constitute a major source of greenhouse gases (GHGs), predominantly methane and carbon dioxide, in developing countries. In an aged dump, typical waste ...
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Li, Zhen; Vanderborght, Jan; Smits, Kathleen M. (Soil Science Society of America; Geological Society of America; Wiley Open Access, 2020-06-23)
**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Understanding the effect of the top soil layer on surface evaporation and water distribution is critical to modeling hydrological systems. However, the dependency ...
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