Search Results - "Schrön, M."
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Response functions for detectors in cosmic ray neutron sensing
Published in Nuclear instruments & methods in physics research. Section A, Accelerators, spectrometers, detectors and associated equipment (11-09-2018)“…Cosmic-Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS) is a novel technique for determining environmental water content by measuring albedo neutrons in the epithermal to fast…”
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Neutrons on Rails: Transregional Monitoring of Soil Moisture and Snow Water Equivalent
Published in Geophysical research letters (28-12-2021)“…Large‐scale measurements of the spatial distribution of water content in soils and snow are challenging for state‐of‐the‐art hydrogeophysical methods…”
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Sensing Area‐Average Snow Water Equivalent with Cosmic‐Ray Neutrons: The Influence of Fractional Snow Cover
Published in Water resources research (01-12-2019)“…Cosmic‐ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is a promising non‐invasive technique to estimate snow water equivalent (SWE) over large areas. In contrast to preliminary…”
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Cosmic‐ray Neutron Rover Surveys of Field Soil Moisture and the Influence of Roads
Published in Water resources research (01-09-2018)“…Measurements of root‐zone soil moisture across spatial scales of tens to thousands of meters have been a challenge for many decades. The mobile application of…”
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Synergies for Soil Moisture Retrieval Across Scales From Airborne Polarimetric SAR, Cosmic Ray Neutron Roving, and an In Situ Sensor Network
Published in Water resources research (01-11-2018)“…The consistent determination of soil moisture across scales is a persistent challenge in hydrology. Several measurement methods exist at distinct scales, each…”
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THE SCALEX CAMPAIGN: Scale-Crossing Land Surface and Boundary Layer Processes in the TERENO-preAlpine Observatory
Published in Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (01-06-2017)“…ScaleX is a collaborative measurement campaign, collocated with a long-term environmental observatory of the German Terrestrial Environmental Observatories…”
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Footprint characteristics revised for field-scale soil moisture monitoring with cosmic-ray neutrons
Published in Water resources research (01-07-2015)“…Cosmic‐ray neutron probes are widely used to monitor environmental water content near the surface. The method averages over tens of hectares and is unrivaled…”
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Uncertainty, sensitivity and improvements in soil moisture estimation with cosmic-ray neutron sensing
Published in Journal of hydrology (Amsterdam) (01-09-2018)“…•CRNS soil moisture compares well to total-weighted point soil moisture.•The uncertainty increases for non-weighted volumetric soil moisture estimation.•CRNS…”
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Signal contribution of distant areas to cosmic-ray neutron sensors – implications for footprint and sensitivity
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (09-02-2023)“…This paper presents a new theoretical approach to estimate the contribution of distant areas to the measurement signal of cosmic-ray neutron detectors for snow…”
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Towards disentangling heterogeneous soil moisture patterns in cosmic-ray neutron sensor footprints
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (22-12-2021)“…Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) allows for non-invasive soil moisture estimations at the field scale. The derivation of soil moisture generally relies on…”
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Technical Note: Revisiting the general calibration of cosmic-ray neutron sensors to estimate soil water content
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (28-02-2024)“…Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is becoming increasingly popular for monitoring soil water content (SWC). To retrieve SWC from observed neutron intensities,…”
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Field-Scale Assessment of Multi-Sensor Soil Moisture Retrieval Under Grassland
Published in IGARSS 2018 - 2018 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (01-07-2018)“…Soil moisture under grassland is assessed at field scale using multiple sensing techniques: in situ soil moisture network measurements (SoilNet), rover-based…”
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Spatio-temporal soil moisture retrieval at the catchment scale using a dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (03-09-2021)“…Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is a powerful technique for retrieving representative estimates of soil water content at a horizontal scale of hectometres…”
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High-resolution drought simulations and comparison to soil moisture observations in Germany
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (12-10-2022)“…Germany's 2018–2020 consecutive drought events resulted in multiple sectors – including agriculture, forestry, water management, energy production, and…”
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A change in perspective: downhole cosmic-ray neutron sensing for the estimation of soil moisture
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (22-08-2023)“…Above-ground cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) allows for the non-invasive estimation of the field-scale soil moisture content in the upper decimetres of the…”
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URANOS v1.0 – the Ultra Rapid Adaptable Neutron-Only Simulation for Environmental Research
Published in Geoscientific Model Development (23-01-2023)“…The understanding of neutron transport by Monte Carlo simulations led to major advancements towards precise interpretation of measurements. URANOS (Ultra Rapid…”
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Improving calibration and validation of cosmic-ray neutron sensors in the light of spatial sensitivity
Published in Hydrology and earth system sciences (06-10-2017)“…In the last few years the method of cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) has gained popularity among hydrologists, physicists, and land-surface modelers. The…”
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A dense network of cosmic-ray neutron sensors for soil moisture observation in a highly instrumented pre-Alpine headwater catchment in Germany
Published in Earth system science data (23-09-2020)“…Monitoring soil moisture is still a challenge: it varies strongly in space and time and at various scales while conventional sensors typically suffer from…”
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Assessing the feasibility of a directional cosmic-ray neutron sensing sensor for estimating soil moisture
Published in Geoscientific instrumentation, methods and data systems (16-02-2022)“…Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) is a non-invasive tool for measuring hydrogen pools such as soil moisture, snow or vegetation. The intrinsic integration over…”
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Soil moisture observation in a forested headwater catchment: combining a dense cosmic-ray neutron sensor network with roving and hydrogravimetry at the TERENO site Wüstebach
Published in Earth system science data (01-06-2022)“…Cosmic-ray neutron sensing (CRNS) has become an effective method to measure soil moisture at a horizontal scale of hundreds of metres and a depth of…”
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