Compact high-resolution temperature loggers for measuring the thermal gradients of marine sediments |
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| Authors: | Hung-I Chang Chuen-Tien Shyu |
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| Institution: | (1) Institute of Oceanography, National Taiwan University, P.O. Box 23-13, Taipei, 10673, Taiwan, ROC |
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| Abstract: | Currently, two major types of ship-operated underwater instruments are used for heat flow measurements including a Lister-type
heat probe (LTHP) and small temperature loggers (STLs) that are attached to a solid-steel lance or a core barrel. In both
operations, penetration friction heat introduces a transient disturbance to the temperature of the surrounding sediments.
A pragmatic approach is to extrapolate a cylindrical temperature decay function to estimate the equilibrium ambient temperature
(EAT) and equilibrium ambient temperature gradient (EATG) of the sediments from short temperature recordings. The extrapolated
EAT and EATG will greatly affect the estimate of the base of the gas hydrate stability zone (BGHS). In order to achieve a
better extrapolation of EAT, EATG, and 1-s temperature sampling requirements, compact (22.2 cm × 2.2 cm) high-resolution temperature
loggers (CHTLs) have been designed to work with a sediment core barrel. The mechanical and electronic design of the CHTL is
detailed in the text. With a 24-bit, low noise A/D converter embedded in the mix-signal microprocessor, including a highly
stable reference resistor based ratiometric scheme, the CHTL is capable of resolving 0.1 m°C in the range of −1 to 25°C. It
has a memory capacity of 4 Mbyte which can work continually up to 16 days with a 1-s sampling interval. From a data processing
efficiency consideration, field experiments indicate that adopting short support fins to attach the CHTLs to a relatively
small size core barrel is better than using high support fins. A similar approach such as extrapolating the cylindrical temperature
decay function to estimate EAT, EATG can be obtained from regressing a direct calculated temperature gradient of short recorded
data. The resulting EATG accuracy may be significantly improved through the application of the proposed correction formula
and therefore is much better than that which is directly calculated from the extrapolated EATs. |
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