estimateSTR: Estimate Soil Temperature Regime

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Estimate Soil Temperature Regime

Description

Estimate soil temperature regime (STR) based on mean annual soil temperature (MAST), mean summer temperature (MSST), mean winter soil temperature (MWST), presence of O horizons, saturated conditions, and presence of permafrost. Several assumptions are made when O horizon or saturation are undefined.

Usage

estimateSTR(
  mast,
  mean.summer,
  mean.winter,
  O.hz = NA,
  saturated = NA,
  permafrost = FALSE
)

Arguments

mast	vector of mean annual soil temperature (deg C)
mean.summer	vector of mean summer soil temperature (deg C)
mean.winter	vector of mean winter soil temperature (deg C)
O.hz	logical vector of O horizon presence / absence
saturated	logical vector of seasonal saturation
permafrost	logical vector of permafrost presence / absence

Details

Soil Temperature Regime Evaluation Tutorial

Value

Vector of soil temperature regimes.

Author(s)

D.E. Beaudette

References

Soil Survey Staff. 2015. Illustrated guide to soil taxonomy. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources Conservation Service, National Soil Survey Center, Lincoln, Nebraska.

See Also

STRplot

Examples

# simple example
estimateSTR(mast=17, mean.summer = 22, mean.winter = 12)

soilDB documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 8:28 p.m.