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Design and Construction of a Rhizotron‐Lysimeter Facility at the Ohio State University 1
Author(s) -
Karnok K. J.,
Kucharski R. T.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1982.00021962007400010042x
Subject(s) - lysimeter , environmental science , evapotranspiration , growing season , hydrology (agriculture) , agronomy , soil water , geology , soil science , ecology , geotechnical engineering , biology
A rhizotron‐lysimeter was constructed at the Ohio State University in 1979. This entirely below ground‐level facility consists of three main rooms: (1) An instrument room equipped with climatological and data acquisition instrumentation, (2) a water reservoir room used in the lysimeter portion of the facility, and (3) an observation area consisting of two rows of 15 observation‐lysimeter cells (60 ✕ 60 ✕ 90 cm high.) The lysimeter portion of the facility operates on a Mariotte supply system which allows evapotranspiration rates to be determined concurrently with root observations. When the Mariotte supply system is not in use, leachates can be drawn under vacuum from each cell. The rhizotron‐lysimeter is initially being used to monitor the seasonal rooting responses and water use rates of several cool season turfgrasses.