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The present authors have developed a rapid method for estimation of the difference between geothermal fluxes of two adjacent places, from surface temperatures and some meteorological parameters, based on a heat budget equation for simple vegetation-free ground surfaces. As this method requires simultaneous measurements of the surface temperatures at two places, an infrared radiation thermometer is the most suitable apparatus for this purpose. As an example, the distribution of the geothermal flux from a surface temperature field was estimated by scanning the Owakudani geothermal area, Hakone volcano, with the infrared radiation thermometer. The result was compared with the values of geothermal flux formerly determined by snowfall calorimetry, and it was shown that general patterns of the equi-heat-discharge line obtained by the two different methods are similar.
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