The relative permittivity of water decreases with increasing temperature. Therefore, it is likely that the soil water content determined with time domain reflectometry (TDR) is influenced by temperature. We derived a correction based on a refractive mixing model. Our field experiment on a peat soil and laboratory experiments on disturbed sand and loam samples showed that there exist significant temperature effects. The magnitude of these effects is a function of water content and temperature. Both the refractive mixing model-based correction and Ledieu’s correction compensated temperature effects reasonable well. We recommend Ledieu’s correction for its simplicity: only information of the soil temperature is needed to correct the measured water content. The model-based correction needs additional information of the TDR calibration function. Our laboratory experiments on disturbed clay samples however, did not show a temperature effect. We suggest that the electrical conductivity counteracts the temperature effects in clay.
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