Lysimeters &
Smart Field Lysimeters,
why and how do they work? Georg von Unold
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Soil Water & Interfaces
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Soilscience
Botany
Climate Change
Hydrology
Water Ressources Management
Irrigation
Plant Production
Fluxes of
Water and Solutes
in Soils Agronomy
Landscape Studies
Meteorology
Fields of Application
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• Introduction
• Technique
• Example
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Coshocton, Ohio 1937
Lysimeters
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But, how in soils?
„ Panta Rhei! “
„All is in a state of flux“ Heraklit, 550 – 480 a.D.
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Field setups, but …
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Fluxes F1
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Defined cross-‐sec6on Defined length
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Atmospheric Interface: Any kind of precipita6on Any kind of rain, hail, dew, Snow, hoar frost, …
F2
Infiltra6on & Soil water flux
F3
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Groundwater recharge in wet seasons/snow melt, Posi6ve water balance
F4
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For gravimetric lysimeters: Groundwater = Zero Poten6al Lysim. Boaom = Zero Poten6al
F5
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Capillar flux Dry seasons / Nega6ve water balance Lysimeter gecng to dry Due to missing connec6on to groundwater.
Fm 6
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Fm 7
Fluxes are poten6al driven. Field matrix poten6al needs to be lysimeter matrix poten6al. We need to measure field condi6on and need to transmia it into lysimeters
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We need to control the lower boundary condi6on to reach true hydraulic field situa6ons in lysimeters
F8
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F9
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F10
Suc6on cup rake in big lysimeters
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F11
Suc6on cups In smart field lysimeters
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Field setup
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Lysimeter hexagon
Tensiometer
SiC
Pum
pensumpf
900
Ø1500Ø1640
Fass 1
Tensiometer SiC
Tensiometer
S iC
Tensiom
eter
S iC
Tensiometer
SiC
Tensiom
eter
SiC
Ø2500
Ø28
002000
1390
1700
60°
900
900
900
900
900
MessschrankMesssch
rank
Zentraler
Mes
ssch
rank
Messschrank
A
C
BLysim
eter 1Lysim
eter 6
Lysimeter 5
Lysim
eter
4Ly
simet
er 3
Lysimeter 2
Fass 2
Fass 5
Fass 6
Fass 3
Fass 4
Lysimeter Sta6on
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TERENO 1m² Lysimeter
Lysimeter hexagon
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TERENO 1m² Lysimeter
• Best results
• Heavy machines
• Long planning
• Higher expense
Lysimeter Sta6on
Field Lysimeter
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Lysimeter cucng setup
True field soil cucng
Permanent cucng control
Celar Lysimeter
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Celar with 8 Lysimeter
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Celar with 48 Lysimeters
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• 3rd genera6on lysimeters with selectable heights • Complete system is expendable up to 4 lysimeters
SMART FIELD LYSIMETERS
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SMART FIELD LYSIMETERS
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• True field condi@on -‐ True Water flux & boundaries -‐ True Temperature profile -‐ Field egeta6on • Measures precisely -‐ Field drainage -‐ Precipita6on -‐ Evapotranspira6on • Addi@onal Data for -‐ 3 x Matrix poten6al -‐ 3 x Vol. Water content -‐ 3 x El. Conduc6vity -‐ 3 x Temperature -‐ Webserver data download
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Smart Field Lysimeters twin, triple, quaaro
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• Introduction
• Technique
• Example
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Soil column cucng with jack lik device
Minimum impact
Installa@on in the alps
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Lysimeter suited
Lysimeter site at Italian alps
Installa@on in the alps
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