Links between annual surface temperature variation and land cover heterogeneity for a boreal forest as characterized by continuous, fibre-optic DTS monitoring

Saito, Kazuyuki; Iwahana, Go; Ikawa, Hiroki; Nagano, Hirohiko; Busey, Robert C.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-7-223-2018

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-7-223-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-7-223-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 7, issue 3

Research article

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31 Jul 2018

Research article |

| 31 Jul 2018

Links between annual surface temperature variation and land cover heterogeneity for a boreal forest as characterized by continuous, fibre-optic DTS monitoring

Kazuyuki Saito, Go Iwahana, Hiroki Ikawa, Hirohiko Nagano, and Robert C. Busey

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RC1: 'surface temperature variations monitoring using fibre-optic DTS', Anonymous Referee #1, 25 Apr 2018
- RC2: 'Reviewer comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 May 2018
  - AC2: 'Reply to Referee #2', Kazuyuki Saito, 11 Jun 2018
    - AC3: 'Prospective Revision of manuscript and figures', Kazuyuki Saito, 18 Jun 2018
- AC1: 'Reply to the Referee #1', Kazuyuki Saito, 11 Jun 2018

Short summary

A DTS system, using fibre-optic cables as a temperature sensor, measured surface and subsurface temperatures at a boreal forest underlain by permafrost in the interior of Alaska for 2 years every 30 min at 0.5-metre intervals along 2.7 km to monitor the daily and seasonal temperature changes, whose temperature ranges between −40 ºC in winter and 30 ºC in summer. This instrumentation illustrated characteristics of temperature variations and snow pack dynamics under different land cover types.