A team of scientists from FIELAX has submitted a manuscript about the variability of sediment temperatures and the so-called 2K-criterion to the Elsevier journal ‘Applied Thermal Engineering’. The manuscript: /Temperatures in shallow marine sediments: Influence of thermal properties, seasonal forcing, and man-made heat sources/ was accepted today and is available under the following link:
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1359431116312364

Highlights of this article are:

• Sediment thermal properties are highly variable.
• Seasonal forcing causes large spatial and temporal sediment temperature variations.
• Power cable temperatures strongly depend on thermal properties of a given site.
• The 2K-criterion is not suitable to detect man-made heat injection.