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@ARTICLE{Andreasen:818271,
author = {Andreasen, Mie and Jensen, Karsten H. and Desilets, Darin
and Zreda, Marek and Bogena, Heye and Looms, Majken C.},
title = {{C}an canopy interception and biomass be inferred from
cosmic-ray neutron intensity? {R}esults from neutron
transport modeling},
journal = {Hydrology and earth system sciences discussions},
volume = {},
issn = {1812-2116},
address = {Katlenburg-Lindau},
publisher = {Soc.},
reportid = {FZJ-2016-04745},
pages = {1 - 42},
year = {2016},
abstract = {Cosmic-ray neutron intensity is inversely correlated to all
hydrogen present in the upper decimeters of the subsurface
and the first few hectometers of the atmosphere above the
ground surface. This method has been used for measuring soil
moisture and snow water equivalent, but it may also be used
to identify and quantify canopy interception and biomass. We
use a neutron transport model with various representations
of the forest and different parameters describing the
subsurface to match measured profiles and time series of
thermal and epithermal neutron intensities at a field site
in Denmark. A sensitivity analysis is performed to quantify
the effect of forest canopy representation, soil moisture,
complexity of soil matrix chemistry, forest litter, soil
bulk density, canopy interception and forest biomass on
neutron intensity. The results show that forest biomass has
a significant influence on the neutron intensity profiles at
the examined field site, altering both the shape of the
profiles and the ground level thermal-to-epithermal neutron
ratio. The ground level thermal-to-epithermal neutron ratio
increases significantly with increasing amounts of biomass
and minor with canopy interception. Satisfactory agreement
is found between measurements and model results at the
forest site as well as two nearby sites representing
agricultural and heathland ecosystems. The measured ground
level thermal-to-epithermal neutron ratios of the three site
range from around 0.56 to 0.82. The significantly smaller
effect of canopy interception on the ground level
thermal-to-epithermal neutron ratio was modeled to range
from 0.804 to 0.836 for a forest with a dry and a very wet
canopy (4 mm of canopy interception), respectively. At the
examined field site the signal of the canopy interception is
lower than the measurement uncertainty.},
cin = {IBG-3},
ddc = {550},
cid = {I:(DE-Juel1)IBG-3-20101118},
pnm = {255 - Terrestrial Systems: From Observation to Prediction
(POF3-255)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-255},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
doi = {10.5194/hess-2016-226},
url = {https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/818271},
}