Using passive fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing to estimate soil water content at a discontinuous permafrost site

Anna M Wagner1, Jonathan B Ajo-Franklin2, Arthur Gelvin3, Stephanie Saari3, Ian Ekblaw4, Craig Ulrich5, Shan Dou6, Stephanie R. James7, Eileen Rose Martin8, Barry M Freifeld5, Kevin Bjella3 and Thomas M Daley2, (1)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (2)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Geophysics, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska, Fort Wainwright, AK, United States, (4)Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley, CA, United States, (5)Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (7)University of Florida, Ft Walton Beach, FL, United States, (8)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States