Peculiarities of soil moisture and temperature dynamics based on TDR-measurement results for 2008-2012 in the Western Polesie territory of Ukraine
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Authors: | Volodymyr Koshovyy1, Olga Alokhina1, Wojciech Skierucha2, Andrzej Wilczek2, Tomasz Pastuszka2, Jacek Cymerman3 1Karpenko Physico-Mechanical Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Naukova 5, Lviv, 79053, Ukraine 2Institute of Agrophysics PAS, 20-290 Lublin, ul. Doświadczalna 4, 20-290 Lublin, Poland 3State School of Higher Education in Chełm, ul. Pocztowa 54, 22-100 Chełm |
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Abstract : | The paper presents the results of an investigation which took place over the years 2008-2012 in the Shatsk National Natural Park. For the investigation four genetically different soils in that area were selected. Those were a soddy-podzolic soil (S01) under grass vegetation, lowland peat bog (S02), anthropogenic lowland peat bog (S03) with mineralised upper layer and a soddy-gley loamy soil (S04). The TDR device developed and created in the Institute of Agrophysics PAS in Lublin, and probes for measurement soil moisture, temperature and salinity were used in the study. The eight probes of the TDR-measuring system were installed at different depths, from 10 to 80 cm, at 10 cm intervals, for soils S02, S03 and S04, and at the depths of 10 сm and 50 cm for soil S01. The dynamics of soil temperature and soil moisture at different depths and the speed of response to changes in subse-quent uncured layers are presented. Hourly TDR data have been diurnal-averaged and used for the calculation of correlation coefficients between soil temperature at different depths, air temperature, precipitation, solar activity parameter, Wolf number and total solar radiation. The study included also the effect of changes in solar radiation in the soil with the seasons. |
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Keywords : | soil parameters, TDR-metering, correlation, climatic conditions, solar activity | ||||||||
Language : | English |