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Campbell Scientific EnviroSCAN Sentek Water Content Profile Probe User Manual

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EnviroSMART

TM

Soil Water Content Profile Probes

VIC can be related directly to a site-specific soil EC through the use of Sentek’s
Benchmarking Procedure.

The accuracy of any such relationships are dependent upon the accuracy and
competency with which this procedure is performed. In Sentek’s own field
testing, strong relationships (r

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=0.9) have been achieved. Refer to the

benchmarking section of the Sentek TriSCAN manual.

Precise temperature effects on salinity data output are currently unknown. It is,
however, known that there is a minor positive relationship between VIC and soil
temperature. The salinity model currently does not include temperature
correction.

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