High soil surface temperature and loosened soil are major limiting factors of plant productivity in arid and semi-arid coal mining areas of China. Moreover, the extensive and illegitimate burning of crop residues is causing environmental pollution; w...
Soil gravel–sand mulching—an ancient farming method in arid areas—is used to cope with drought by conserving water and improving soil temperature, the latter being a key factor affecting agricultural production. The objective of thi...
A model for predicting shallow depth soil temperatures is important and effective to assess the changes in soil conditions related to global climate change and local disturbances. Shallow-depth soil temperature estimation model in cold region in Alas...
Interactions between land and atmosphere directly influence hydrometeorological processes and, therefore, the local climate. However, because of heterogeneity of vegetation covers these feedbacks can change over small areas, becoming more complex. Th...
In greenhouse energy balance models, the soil thermal parameters are important for evaluating the heat transfer between the greenhouse air and the soil. In this study, the soil thermal diffusivity was estimated from greenhouse soil temperature data u...
Soil moisture and salinity are crucial parameters of the Earth’s ecosystem; how to understand the radiation properties of them is of great significance for remote sensing monitoring. In this study, the application of mixed soil dielectric model...
Soil steam disinfection (SSD) technology is an effective means of eliminating soil borne diseases. Among the soil cultivation conditions of facility agriculture in the Yangtze River Delta region of China, the clay soil particles (SPs) are fine, the s...
Significant environmental temperature variations occur during the construction of large-scale underground structures, constituting one of the major factors influencing structural deformation. Parameter inversion of soil layers based solely on the cau...
The temperature sensitivity (Q10) of soil respiration (Rs) plays a crucial role in evaluating the carbon budget of terrestrial ecosystems under global warming. However, the variability in Q10 along soil moisture gradients remains a subject of debate,...
Soil moisture is an essential variable in Earth surface modeling. Two dedicated satellite missions, the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) and the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP), are currently in operation to map the global distribution of...
The relationship between the soil surface temperature and groundwater level is complex and influenced by various factors. As the soil surface temperature increases, water evaporates quickly from the soil, which can lead to a decrease in the groundwat...
The Earth is permanently surrounded by cloud cover that, particularly, is an essential component in the planet’s energy balance. In turn, cloud cover intervenes in the main conditioning factor for soil temperature: solar radiation. In particula...
Temperature gradients exist in the field under brackish water irrigation conditions, especially in northern semi–arid areas of China. Although there are many investigators dedicated to studying the mechanism of brackish water irrigation and the effec...
Soil respiration plays a critical role in driving soil carbon (C) cycling in terrestrial forest ecosystems. However, evidence to demonstrate the response of roots, mycorrhizal hyphae, and soil free-living microbes of soil respiration and their temper...
Soil temperature is an important index of climate change, and the analysis of soil temperature change is of great significance for understanding climate change and ecohydrological processes. This study was based on the measured meteorological data of...
A soil temperature estimation model for increasing depth in a permafrost area in Alaska near the Bering Sea is proposed based on a thermal response concept. Thermal response is a measure of the internal physical heat transfer of soil due to transferr...
Elucidating the characteristics and underlying mechanisms of soil organic carbon (SOC) and nitrogen mineralization in the context of sludge addition is vital for enhancing soil quality and augmenting the carbon sink capacity of soil. This study exami...
Soil moisture is a notably important component in various studies in water sciences, including hydrology, agriculture, and water management. To achieve extensive or global spatial coverage, satellites focusing on soil moisture observation have been l...
The influence of temperature on the dielectric permittivity of soil is the result of counteracting effect that depends on the soil’s composition and mineralogy. In this paper, laboratory experiments showed that for a given water content, the soil die...
Soil temperature plays a vital role in determining crop yield. Excessive irrigation may result in low soil temperature and a waste of water resources. In this paper, field experiments were carried out to evaluate the influence of irrigation methods a...
Soil temperature is one of the key factors to be considered in precision agriculture to increase crop production. This study is designed to compare the effectiveness of a land surface model (Noah Multiparameterization (Noah-MP)) against a traditional...
Soil and vegetation component temperatures in non-isothermal pixels encapsulate more physical meaning and are more applicable than composite temperatures. The component temperatures however are difficult to be obtained from thermal infrared (TIR) rem...
The knowledge of soil apparent thermal diffusivity (k) is important for investigating soil surface heat transfer and temperature. Long-term k determined using the near-surface soil temperature is limited on the Tibetan Plateau (TP). The main objectiv...
Zoysiagrasses (Zoysia spp. Willd.) are commonly used on golf course fairways and tees in addition to residential and commercial lawns due to lower input requirements relative to bermudagrass (Cynodon spp.). This has led to increased interest in using...
This paper describes a soil moisture dataset that has been collecting ground measurements of soil moisture, soil temperature and related parameters for west Wales, United Kingdom. Already acquired in situ data have been archived to the autonomous Wal...
Soil temperature is an essential factor for agricultural, meteorological, and hydrological applications. Direct measurement, despite its high accuracy, is impractical on a large spatial scale due to the expensive and time-consuming process. On the ot...
The complexities in the variations of soil temperature and thermal diffusion poses a physical problem that requires more understanding. The quest for a better understanding of the complexities of soil temperature variation has prompted the study of t...
Soil disinfection is an important agronomic measure to prevent soil-borne diseases, insects, weeds and other hazards. Based on the premise of being environmentally friendly, microwave soil disinfection can improve crop yield and quality in a pollutio...
Soil moisture (SM) and temperature (ST) are critical factors in forest eco-hydrological research. In this study, we investigated the inter- and intra-annual changes in SM and ST profiles in a mixed Mediterranean maquis forest stand together with soil...
The temperature, moisture, and salt content of soil in alpine regions are sensitive to changes in climatic factors and are important indicators of ecosystem functions. In this study, we collected soil moisture, temperature and electrical conductivity...
Soil temperature, a key factor in subsurface geochemical processes, is influenced by environmental and geological dynamics. This study analyzed hourly soil temperature variations at depths of 10 to 100 cm near the Sakurajima volcano, alongside concur...
Revealing the characteristics of soil moisture and temperature under typical sloping land uses in the loess hilly region is of great significance for the efficient and sustainable use of sloping land resources. In this study, the soil moisture conten...
Research Highlights: Biochar is the carbonaceous product of pyrolysis or the gasification of biomass that is used as soil amendment to improve soil fertility and increase soil carbon stock. Biochar has been shown to increase, decrease, or have no eff...
Soil temperature is a crucial parameter in surface emissions of carbon, water, and energy exchanges. This study utilized the soil temperature of 836 national basic meteorological observing stations over China to evaluate three soil temperature produc...
The continuous monitoring of soil water content is commonly carried out using low-frequency capacitance sensors that require a site-specific calibration to relate sensor readings to apparent dielectric bulk permittivity (Kb) and soil water content (&...
We conducted a short-term laboratory soil warming incubation experiment, sampling both warmed and un-warmed soils from a subtropical plantation in southeastern China, incubating them at 20 °C, 30 °C, and 40 °C. Our aim was to study the SO...
Soil temperature patterns are of great importance for any agro-based economy like Bangladesh since they significantly affect biological, chemical, and physical processes that take place in the soil. Unfortunately, there have been no forecast studies...
Wetlands store a large amount of carbon (C) and many are vulnerable to potential global warming. It is critical to quantify the temperature sensitivity of soil nitrogen (N) and C mineralization in response to external labile C or N addition in differ...
In Mediterranean regions, fires are a key ecological factor, altering soil properties, biodiversity, and landscape dynamics. Post-fire recovery varies based on vegetation type, fire severity, and climate conditions. However, the specific relationship...
Soil respiration is an important component of the global carbon cycle and is highly responsive to disturbances in the environment. Human impacts on the terrestrial ecosystem lead to changes in the environmental conditions, and following this, changes...
Biochar, produced by pyrolyzing biomass under limited oxygen, can improve soil quality while supporting long-term carbon sequestration. This study compared two wheat-straw biochars (BC) made at 450 °C (BC1) and 600 °C (BC2), with a commercial...
Soil moisture is an important parameter in land surface processes, which can control the surface energy and water budgets and thus affect the air temperature. Studying the coupling between soil moisture and air temperature is of vital importance for...
Plastic film mulching is a commonly used agricultural measure in arid/cold regions to improve crop growth. Despite previous studies on the impact of film mulching on soil water/heat status and crop growth, it is not clear how plastic film colours and...
Soil temperature is a critical environmental factor that affects plant development, physiological processes, and overall productivity. This study compares two modeling approaches for predicting soil temperature at various depths: (i) fuzzy logic-base...
We analyzed the effects on a soil microbial community of short-term alterations in air temperature, soil moisture and ultraviolet radiation and assessed the role of invertebrates (species Enchytraeus crypticus) in modulating the community’s res...
Energy piles are highly favored for their excellent, low energy consumption in providing heating for public residences. The temperature field changes the activity of the diffuse double electric layer (DEL) on the particle surface, thereby altering th...
Soil CO2 efflux (Rs) is a significant source of carbon dioxide from soils to the atmosphere and is a critical component of total ecosystem carbon budgets. Prescribed fire is one of the most prevalent forest management tools employed in the southeaste...
Modeling the spatial and temporal dynamics of soil temperature is deterministically complex due to the wide variability of several influential environmental variables, including soil column composition, soil moisture, air temperature, and solar energ...
The living roots of woody plants in forests play a crucial role in sustaining the soil temperature equilibrium. However, there is limited research investigating the effects of soil temperature balance disruption, influenced by living roots, on soil m...
The application of biochar to improve the quality of saline soils has attracted widespread attention. However, the impact of saline soil amendments with biochar prepared at different pyrolysis temperatures remains unclear. Therefore, we conducted a t...
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