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Empirical two-point α-mixing model for calibrating the ECH2O EC-5 soil moisture sensor in sands
(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 ... -
A Screening Model for Injection-Extraction Treatment Well Recirculation System Design
(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 ... -
Evaporation from soils under thermal boundary conditions: Experimental and modeling investigation to compare equilibrium- and nonequilibrium-based approaches
(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 ... -
An evaluation of models of bare soil evaporation formulated with different land surface boundary conditions and assumptions
(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 ... -
Sensible Heat Balance and Heat-Pulse Method Applicability to In Situ Soil-Water Evaporation
(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 ... -
Study of the effect of wind speed on evaporation from soil through integrated modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer and shallow subsurface
(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 ... -
Measurement of Thermal Conductivity Function of Unsaturated Soil Using a Transient Water Release and Imbibition Method
(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 ... -
Exploring the Effects of Atmospheric Forcings on Evaporation: Experimental Integration of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Shallow Subsurface
(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 ... -
Continuum-scale investigation of evaporation from bare soil under different boundary and initial conditions: An evaluation of nonequilibrium phase change
(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 ... -
Effect of Turbulence and Roughness on Coupled Porous-Medium/Free-Flow Exchange Processes
(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, ... -
Thermal Conductivity of Binary Sand Mixtures Evaluated through Full Water Content Range
(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 ... -
Heat Transfer in Unsaturated Soil with Application to Borehole Thermal Energy Storage
(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, ... -
Heat and water transport in soils and across the soil-atmosphere interface: 2. Numerical analysis
(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 ... -
Heat and water transport in soils and across the soil-atmosphere interface: 1. Theory and different model concepts
(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 ... -
Characterization of Grain-Size Distribution, Thermal Conductivity, and Gas Diffusivity in Variably Saturated Binary Sand Mixtures
(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 ... -
Evaluation of Model Concepts to Describe Water Transport in Shallow Subsurface Soil and Across the Soil–Air Interface
(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 ... -
Coupled Thermally-Enhanced Bioremediation and Renewable Energy Storage System: Conceptual Framework and Modeling Investigation
(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 ... -
Experimental and Numerical Study of Evaporation From Wavy Surfaces by Coupling Free Flow and Porous Media Flow
(Wiley; American Geophysical Union, 2018-10-30)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: The macroscale roughness of the soil surface has significant influences on the mass/energy interactions between the subsurface and the atmosphere during evaporation. ... -
Accounting for Temperature Effects on the Performance of Soil Moisture Sensors in Sandy Soils
(Soil Science Society of America; Wiley, 2019-09-01)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Capacitance sensors are widely used to monitor volumetric water content in both field and lab settings due to their low cost, ease of use, and capability of providing ... -
Gas-Diffusivity based characterization of aggregated agricultural soils
(Soil Science Society of America; Wiley, 2020-02-12)**Please note that the full text is embargoed** ABSTRACT: Grazed pastures and cultivated fields are significant sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in particular N2O emissions derived from fertilizer deposition and ...