Articles | Volume 16, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-719-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-16-719-2022
Research article
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03 Mar 2022
Research article |  | 03 Mar 2022

A distributed temperature profiling system for vertically and laterally dense acquisition of soil and snow temperature

Baptiste Dafflon, Stijn Wielandt, John Lamb, Patrick McClure, Ian Shirley, Sebastian Uhlemann, Chen Wang, Sylvain Fiolleau, Carlotta Brunetti, Franklin H. Akins, John Fitzpatrick, Samuel Pullman, Robert Busey, Craig Ulrich, John Peterson, and Susan S. Hubbard

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This study presents the development and validation of a novel acquisition system for measuring finely resolved depth profiles of soil and snow temperature at multiple locations. Results indicate that the system reliably captures the dynamics in snow thickness, as well as soil freezing and thawing depth, enabling advances in understanding the intensity and timing in surface processes and their impact on subsurface thermohydrological regimes.