Soil thermal inertia method by Murray and Verhoef

Soil_Inertia1 estimates the soil thermal inertia GAM from the soil moisture content, using the empirical model of Murray and Verhoef (2007) for thermal conductivity and a linear mixing model for volumetric heat capacity. Used when options.soil_heat_method == 1 in the SCOPE energy balance.

Usage

Soil_Inertia1(SMC)

Arguments

SMC

numeric. Soil moisture content (m^3 m^-3).

Value

numeric. Soil thermal inertia GAM (J m^-2 K^-1 s^-1/2), used to compute the soil heat flux.

Author

Christiaan van der Tol; Murray and Verhoef (Original version in Matlab)

Carlos Camino (Ported version into R)

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
GAM <- Soil_Inertia1(SMC)
} # }