含水量
土壤水分
环境科学
渗透(HVAC)
土壤科学
磁场容量
生物地球化学循环
环境化学
化学
地质学
岩土工程
材料科学
复合材料
作者
Shuna Feng,Junru Chen,Scott B. Jones,G. N. Flerchinger,Miles Dyck,Vilim Filipović,Yi Hu,Bing Cheng,Jialong Lv,Qingbai Wu,Hailong He
标识
DOI:10.1016/j.jhydrol.2024.130802
摘要
Frozen soil is a complex four-phase porous medium consisting of soil solid/rock, air, unfrozen/liquid water and ice at the subzero temperatures. Freeze-thaw cycles change the magnitude of total soil water content as well as the unfrozen water/ice ratio in frozen soil that affects soil structure and strength, infiltration capacity, soil water availability for microbial activity, soil biology, and chemical reactions. Accurate quantification of unfrozen water content is therefore critical to understand frozen soil hydrological, biogeochemical, thermal and mechanical properties and processes under climate change. Currently a variety of techniques and methods have been applied to obtain unfrozen water content in frozen soils. However, only few studies have attempted to review and synthesize these works. The objective of this study was therefore to review and collate currently available methods determining unfrozen water content in frozen soils. The principles, applications, advantages and limitations of these methods were reviewed and categorized into five categories: a pressure-based method, radioactive-methods, electromagnetic-methods, thermal-methods, and a sound-based method. Models for indirectly estimating unfrozen water content based on empirical temperature relationships, the soil water/moisture retention characteristic, and the vG-Clapeyron model, were also summarized. There is no direct method to estimate ice content but it can be indirectly calculated based on water balance (i.e., difference between total and unfrozen soil water content). The study is finalized with a brief review of future needs and perspectives for simultaneous measurement of unfrozen water and ice contents in the laboratory and in the field.
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