Using in-situ temperature measurements to estimate saturated soil thermal properties by solving a sequence of optimization problems

• Main Authors: D. J. Nicolsky, V. E. Romanovsky, G. S. Tipenko
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Copernicus Publications 2007
• Subjects: geo; envir; Happy Valley; The Cryosphere; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.the-cryosphere.net/1/41/2007/tc-1-41-2007.pdf; https://doaj.org/article/d69b826dcd4946bfbb0a7ec9e0c3ac52

We describe an approach to find an initial approximation to the thermal properties of soil horizons. This technique approximates thermal conductivity, porosity, unfrozen water content curves in horizons where no direct temperature measurements are available. To determine physical properties of groun...