5/23/2000
>Folks,
>What's the single best, all around reference on neutron probes?
>
Steve Evett writes:
"I still think Greacen (1981) is the best single text.
Greacen, E.L. 1981. Soil water assessment by the neutron method. CSIRO, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. 140 pp.
It has some holes
though and may be difficult to obtain. Cliff Hignett might know about
obtaining it. I don't know of anything that is a single comprehensive
treatment. You probably ought to look at Cliff Hignett's and my chapters in Comparison of Soil Water Measurement Using the Neutron Scattering, Time Domain Reflectometry and Capacitance Methods. International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, IAEA-TECDOC-1137. 2000. Mine is available for download at http://www.cprl.ars.usda.gov/programs/ (see link below).
Several relevant papers were published in Management of Irrigation and
Drainage Systems, Integrated Perspectives. Proceedings of the 1993 ASCE
national conference on irrigation and drainage engineering, Park City, UT, July 21-23, 1993. Authors include Dickey, Stone, Allen, and Wright."
The bibilograph of neutron probe papers at
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/nafa/d1/public/d1_pbl_2.html#pbl4 should be useful as well. or in pdf format
http://www.iaea.org/programmes/nafa/d1/public/d1_pbl_2_1.pdf
More recently, this list is worth a look:
(some are available at http://www.cprl.ars.usda.gov/wmru/wmpubs.htm)
Evett, Steven, Jean-Paul Laurent, Peter Cepuder, and Clifford
Hignett. 2002. Neutron Scattering, Capacitance, and TDR Soil
Water Content Measurements Compared on Four Continents.
17th World Congress of Soil Science, August 14-21, 2002,
Bangkok, Thailand, Transactions, pp. 1021-1 - 1021-10. (CD-ROM)
Gardner, W., and Kirkham, D. 1952. Determination of soil moisture
by neutron scattering. Soil Sci. Vol. 73. pp. 391–401.
