Nevada Desert Face Facility Soil Water Content (%Vol)
- Nevada Desert Face Facility; ESS-DIVE
Method: 16 Dynamax TDR probes were installed in each ring in two microsite locations: a pair of 0.2- and 0.5-cm probes was installed under the canopy of four randomly selected Larrea plants in each plot, with another pair installed nearby in the interspace between perennial plants. Initially, 44% of the 0.5-m probes were not fully inserted into the soil because rocks in the soil impeded installation. For these probes, we corrected the soil water measurement based on the proportion of the probe length in air because the dielectric constant of air (1) is much less than that of water (80) (Topp 1993). By December 1999, all these TDR probes had been relocated in their respective microsite location so that they were fully inserted into the soil. [see Nowak et.al. (2004) Elevated atmospheric CO2 does not conserve soil water in the Mojave Desert. Ecology 85:93-99.]
- Research Organization:
- Environmental System Science Data Infrastructure for a Virtual Ecosystem
- OSTI ID:
- 1463807
- Report Number(s):
- cdiac:NDFF Soil Water Content
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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