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. 2005 Apr 10;6(5):331–337. doi: 10.1631/jzus.2005.B0331

Table 3.

Comparison of the changes of soil temperatures (°C) with different initial moisture contents at the different time

H^* (cm)	4 h		8 h		12 h		28 h		32 h		48 h
	^#θ_I=15%	θ_I=18.5%	θ_I=15%	θ_I=18.5%	θ_I=15%	θ_I=18.5%	θ_I=15%	θ_I=18.5%	θ_I=15%	θ_I=18.5%	θ_I=15%	θ_I=18.5%
	Soil temperature (°C)
0	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6	19.6
3	19.5	19.2	18.5	18.2	18.5	18.3	18.4	18.3	18.2	18.0	17.6	17.5
6	19.0	18.5	17.6	17.0	17.4	17.0	17.5	17.1	17.2	16.8	16.5	16.2
9	17.9	17.0	15.9	15.1	15.4	14.9	15.8	15.2	15.5	14.9	14.7	14.1
12	15.2	14.8	12.8	12.8	12.2	12.5	12.5	12.9	12.3	12.6	11.6	11.9
15	11.9	11.1	9.6	9.3	9.1	9.1	9.5	9.4	9.2	9.1	8.6	8.5
18	7.8	7.0	6.2	5.7	5.8	5.5	6.1	5.9	5.7	5.4	5.5	5.2
21	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0	2.0

^*

H: Depth of soil column

^#

θ_I: is the initial soil moisture content