NIGHT-FROST MODULATION OF NEAR-SURFACE SOIL-WATER ION CONCENTRATION AND THERMAL FIELDS
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Physical Geography
- Vol. 10 (4) , 336-348
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02723646.1989.10642387
Abstract
The modulation of the soil-water ion concentration and thermal fields resulting from night frost is illustrated with data from temperature-electric potential probes in the upper 15 cm of a sandy loam soil. The relative soil-water ion concentration, calculated from soil electric potential observations, aids in the detection of these modulation effects produced by non-conductive heat-mass transfer processes. The apparent thermal diffusivity, calculated from soil-temperature data, further facilitates the detection and analysis of these non-conductive processes. This new technology demonstrates the distorting effects of soil-water advection to the freezing zone, “ice purification” of soil water in the freezing zone and other coupled mass-heat transport effects produced by night frost. The conversion of electric potential observations to a relative index of soil-water ion concentration and the calculation of the apparent thermal diffusivity from the temperature data matrix are demonstrated as effective methods for the detection and analysis of the magnitude and direction of coupled-flow processes. [Key words: electric potential, frost, soil chemistry, soil temperature, thermal diffusivity.]Keywords
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