Event-driven mobile cosmic-ray neutron rover Surveys of soil moisture within SwabianMOSES 2023

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In addition to stationary measurements, mobile CRNS campaigns extended the utility of this method by mapping the spatial distribution of soil moisture and snowpack in the whole region. Mounted on vehicles, mobile neutron detectors can cover extensive terrains, sensing average water content at a distance of up to 100 m from the road and revealing its spatial variation due to factors like topography, vegetation, and land use (Schrön et al., 2018).During this campaign, a custom made mobile CRNS Sensor with 32 neutron counting tubes, constructed by StyX Neutronica GmbH was used. By providing high-resolution data on water distribution, mobile CRNS measurements have the potential to improve our understanding of hydrological dynamics and support better decision-making in water resource management and extreme weather events. In the present study, several mobile CRNS campaigns have been conducted with a car across the Lindach catchment and beyond before and after prospective rain events to obtain information on soil moisture along transects towards regional scales. In order to obtain data from the hydrological winter half-year, a further CRNS roving campaign was conducted in February 2024.

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DOI https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.984639
Related Identifier IsPartOf https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.983548
Related Identifier References https://doi.org/10.3389/frwa.2020.00010
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://doi.org/10.5194/hess-21-5009-2017
Related Identifier IsDocumentedBy https://doi.org/10.1029/2017WR021719
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Creator Schrön, Martin ORCID logo; Bauckholt, Matteo (ORCID: 0000-0001-7083-616X); Landmark, Solveig; Vinson, Amanda; Dietrich, Peter ORCID logo
Publisher PANGAEA
Publication Year 2026
Rights Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International; Data access is restricted (moratorium, sensitive data, license constraints); https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Resource Type Dataset
Format text/tab-separated-values
Size 243873 data points
Discipline Earth System Research
Spatial Coverage (8.348W, 47.820S, 12.554E, 51.371N); Baden-Württemberg
Temporal Coverage Begin 2023-06-01T08:28:53Z
Temporal Coverage End 2024-02-29T18:13:43Z