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Low-Cost Weighable Lysimeters

Nature volume 196, pages 1341–1342 (1962)Cite this article

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Glover and Forsgate1 have recently proposed a method for weighing a soil-filled lysimeter by noting pressure variations in a water-filled bag on which the lysimeter tank rests. Lysimeters working on this principle have been operating here during the past year.

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  1. Glover, J., and Forsgate, J. A., Nature, 195, 1330 (1962).

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  2. Winter, E. J., J. Hort. Sci., 38 (in the press).

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  1. National Vegetable Research Station, Wellesbourne, Warwick

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WINTER, E. Low-Cost Weighable Lysimeters. Nature 196, 1341–1342 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1961341a0

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