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. 2020 Apr 14;15(4):e0231055. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0231055

Table 3. Training and testing accuracies of the ANN models in modeling soil temperature at different depths.

Input combination Training Testing
RMSE (°C) NSE R2 RMSE (°C) NSE R2
5 cm
T 1.600 0.971 0.971 1.914 0.965 0.977
T, RH 9.276 0.049 0.130 10.82 -0.113 0.027
T, Rs, W 9.379 0.028 0.028 10.28 -0.005 0.052
T, Rs, W, RH 8.411 0.218 0.723 10.06 0.037 0.336
10 cm
T 1.237 0.981 0.981 1.429 0.977 0.980
T, RH 9.046 0.022 0.022 9.596 -0.004 0.004
T, Rs, W 7.968 0.241 0.729 9.085 0.099 0.314
T, Rs, W, RH 8.069 0.221 0.709 9.310 0.054 0.314
50 cm
T 1.058 0.978 0.978 1.456 0.966 0.984
T, RH 7.152 0.034 0.501 8.088 -0.035 0.085
T, Rs, W 6.846 0.114 0.537 8.465 -0.134 0.179
T, Rs, W, RH 6.538 0.192 0.557 8.146 -0.050 0.181
100 cm
T 4.488 0.400 0.401 5.407 0.290 0.406
T, RH 5.628 0.057 0.057 6.446 -0.008 0.115
T, Rs, W 4.949 0.270 0.270 6.053 0.110 0.205
T, Rs, W, RH 4.328 0.442 0.442 5.704 0.210 0.409