GROUNDWORK

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...U.S. SOIL TEMPERATURE AND ITS VARIATION A New Dataset Soil temperature, at various depths, is important to understanding...importance of this parameter, long-term, quality soil temperature data for the United States were not available...

soil temperature

A Dictionary of Weather;      16 words ...soil temperature The temperature as measured at specific depths, for example 50,100, 200,300, and 1000 mm.

A daily soil temperature dataset and soil temperature climatology of the...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  August 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ......atmospheric circulations, variations in soil temperature result primarily from the radiation...different thermal properties. Thus, soil temperature and its variation at various depths...fill this data gap and to develop a soil temperature dataset from the historical data of...

Diurnal Soil Temperature Effects within the GLOBE® Program Dataset

The Journal of Geography;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ...ABSTRACT Long-term collection of soil temperature with depth is important when studying...physical data, were used to collect soil temperature to a depth of one meter. Data show...representative data. Key Words: GLOBE program, soil temperature, soil science, energy budget INTRODUCTION...

Quality control for USDA NRCS SM-ST network soil temperatures: A method...

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  June 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......NRCS) established its Soil Moisture-Soil Temperature (SM-ST) Pilot Network consisting of...network is to provide near-real time soil temperature and soil moisture observations in...a quality-control method for the soil temperature data was developed. The method used...

Retrospective Forecasts of Interannual Sea Surface Temperature Anomalies...

Monthly Weather Review;  October 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......the 1982 to 2002 period. Skill of the coupled model is evaluated from both a deterministic...and the root-mean-square error. The coupled model deterministic skill metrics are compared...forecasts. Despite the fact that the coupled model has a large cold bias in the central...

Soil temperature and moisture in beech stands of different density

Folia Oecologica;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Abstract SIRN, M. 2005. Soil temperature and moisture in beech stands...forests in central Slovakia on soil temperature and moisture content. The...results show evidently that the soil temperature changes were influenced by...

Source Characterization with a Genetic Algorithm-Coupled...

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......the potential applicability of the coupled model to emission source characterization. The coupled model incorporating SCIPUFF is first validated...related directly to SCIPUFF's use in the coupled model. The coupled model is successful in...

A Revised Force-Restore Model for Land Surface Modeling

Journal of Applied Meteorology;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......commonly used force-restore model for soil temperature are rederived from the heat conduction...denoted T^sub 2^, that is defined as the soil temperature at depth πd plus a transient...is the e-folding damping depth of soil temperature diurnal oscillations. The corresponding...

Shawnee County Master Gardeners

The Topeka Capital-Journal;  April 17, 2004 ;     700+ words ......Fortunately, gardeners should also consider the soil temperature when trying to decide when to plant spring crops. Soil temperature is the trigger for seed germination. And soil temperature changes more gradually than air temperature. In...

An improved coupled model for ENSO prediction and implications for ocean...

Monthly Weather Review;  April 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......is a variation of the standard NCEP coupled model (CMPlO). Major changes in the new coupled model are improved vertical mixing for the...prediction results show that the new coupled model, using the more accurate ocean initial...

ECOSYSTEM CONTROL OVER TEMPERATURE AND ENERGY FLUX IN NORTHERN...

Ecological Applications;  November 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......examined biotic controls over soil temperature and evapotranspiration...overhead infrared lamps, so soil temperature was a dependent variable...loading caused mean monthly soil temperature to increase by 1.6 [degrees...

A study of persistence in the land-atmosphere system using a general...

Journal of Climate;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......and explicitly predicts soil temperature. Thus, it is well equipped...CCM2-BATS indicates that this coupled model is able to reproduce the...patterns of soil moisture and soil temperature in China. Also, the magnitude...The major exception is soil temperature during ...

Lowering soil temperatures improves creeping bentgrass growth under heat...

Crop Science;  November 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ......2001, unpublished data). Supraoptimal soil temperature is more detrimental than air temperature...root dieback (Carrow, 1996). Reducing soil temperature from a supraoptimal level of 35 [degrees...temperatures (Xu and Huang, 2000a). Reducing soil temperature also has been reported to ...

Impact of Atmosphere-Ocean Coupling on the Predictability of Monsoon...

Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......investigated with an atmosphere-ocean coupled model and its atmospheric component. From...the selected events using both the coupled model and the atmosphere-only model. Two...correlation coefficient (ACC). In the coupled model, the MISO predictability is generally...