Soil Specific Heat

The function estimates soil specific heat (J kg^-1 K^-1) using the methods of deVries (1963) . The function incorporates the volume fraction of organic material, minerals, and water in soil.

soil_specific_heat(x_o, x_m, x_w, rho_so)

Arguments

x_o

numeric volume fraction of organic material (0-1).

x_m

numeric volume fraction of minerals (0-1).

x_w

numeric volume fraction of water (0-1).

rho_so

numeric particle density of soil in (kg m^-3) (bulk density).

Value

numeric soil specific heat (J kg^-1 K^-1).

References

deVries DA (1963). “Thermal Properties of Soils.” In Physics of Plant Environment, chapter 2. North Holland Publishing Company. doi:10.1002/qj.49709038628 .

See also

Other soil temperature functions: soil_conductivity(), soil_temperature_equation(), soil_temperature_function(), soil_temperature_integrand(), soil_temperature()

Author

Joseph Grigg

Examples

  soil_specific_heat(x_o    = 0.01, 
                     x_m    = 0.6, 
                     x_w    = 0.2, 
                     rho_so = 1620)
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