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Campbell Scientific Sentek TriSCAN® Manual v 1.2a User Manual

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TriSCAN Manual Version 1.2a

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The salinity increase during the irrigation event as the TriSCAN™ salinity model is currently unable to
detect the correct soil salinity during soil water contents at or near to saturation.
This rise of salinity
during the irrigation event is only apparent and should be ignored.

Focus should be placed on the data before and after the irrigation event, when rapid drainage has
slowed.

Figure 10 illustrates the use of vertical rulers to show a volumetric ion content (VIC) change from 3.45 VIC to
7.17 VIC (at a comparable soil water content of 3.19mm),

The red line extending upward along the base line salinity trend shows the soil salinity response to
incremental Ammonium Nitrate Fertilizer applications. For salinity concentrations of each irrigation
application see the captions.

Figure 10: Salinity response to incremental applications of fertilizer to a sand colunn