soilDB (version 2.8.8)

estimateSTR: 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
)

Value

Vector of soil temperature regimes.

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

Author

D.E. Beaudette

Details

Soil Temperature Regime Evaluation Tutorial

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)