An Empirical Method of Estimating Soil Thermal Inertia

<table class="figure-group"><tr class="fig-image" id="a"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2015/428525/figures/428525.fig.006a.svgz" name="428525.fig.006a" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(a) </b>Nongrowing season</td></tr><tr class="fig-image" id="b"><td><object data="https://static.hindawi.com/articles/amete/volume-2015/428525/figures/428525.fig.006b.svgz" name="428525.fig.006b" type="image/svg+xml"></object></td></tr><tr class="fig-caption"><td><b>(b) </b>Growing season</td></tr></table>

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An Empirical Method of Estimating Soil Thermal Inertia

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