Re: SOWACS: Does a Watermark meter read in cb when reading gypsum blocks??

2004-07-15 Thread Isberie Carole
Hello, It is necessary to consider that with gypsum blocks, you measure tensions (hydric matric potential), but, with neutron probe, you measure water contents. In this last case, the perturbation of the soil is bad for the measurement, because the porosity is disturbed and changed (so

Re: SOWACS: Does a Watermark meter read in cb when reading gypsum blocks??

2004-07-15 Thread Isberie Carole
(my english is not so good) ? Carole arie It is necessary to consider that with gypsum blocks, you measure tensions (hydric matric potential), but, with neutron probe, you measure water contents. In this last case, the perturbation of the soil is bad for the measurement, because the porosity