Lysimeter Station Wagna
Description
Purpose of this facility Research on water movement and nutrient transport in the unsaturated zone under arable land with natural cultivation; hydrochemical analyses; isotopes studies; to calibrate water and nutrient transport models; crop water requirement and plant nutrition; climate change effects; comparison of organic farming to conventional low input farming to determine groundwater protective tillage
Lysimeter type WEIGHABLE MONOLITHIC FIELD LYSIMETER/SOIL HYDROLOGY MEASURING SITE
Operating since 2004
Number of lysimeters 2
Size classification standard
Exact size 1 mē x 2 m depth, cylindrical
Building material of container Stainless steel; mobile ring on top
Material/feature of lysimeter bottom Filter gravel layer with suction cups
Lysimeter cellar (material) Concrete
suction-controlled lysimeter yes
Weighing equipment Balances installed under lysimeters; precision 0.05 mm
Seepage water determination Suction cups; Weighing
Nutrients/nutrient balances N, NO3 balances
Soil fraction(s) Loamy sand
Soil type Dystric Cambisol
Soil thickness in m 0.7/1.1
Vegetation and cultivation Arable land/field
Probes installed Tensiometers, gypsum blocks, suction cups, TDR, sensors for soil temperature
Data logger; server, data base yes
Other details (data formats etc.) Probes installed in lysimeter vessels and in undisturbed soil profile in 4 depths; in vessel: also geophysical probes
Modelling

Water balance, nutrient transport with: HYDRUS, STOTRASIM,
CANDY, COUPMODEL, CROPSYST
   
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last update: June 9, 2008