Experimental system for simulating a natural soil temperature profile during freeze-thaw cycles

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 843-848

  Williams, M R ^a   Feyereisen, G W ^b   Folmar, G J ^b   Lin, H S ^c  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accelerated testing; Freeze thaw; Heating cable; Lysimeter

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATED TESTING; AIR TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL SYSTEM; FIELD CONDITIONS; FIELD VALUES; FREEZE-THAW; FREEZE-THAW CYCLES; FREEZING AND THAWING; HEAT FLOWS; HEATING CABLE; HEATING CABLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MICROBIAL ACTIVITIES; NATURAL SOILS; POLLUTANT TRANSPORT; SOIL PHYSICAL PROPERTY; SOIL TEMPERATURE; SOIL TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; SUBSURFACE SOIL; VERTICAL TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CABLES; FREEZING; HEAT FLUX; HEATING; LYSIMETERS; SOIL MECHANICS; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; THAWING; THERMAL GRADIENTS;

SOIL TESTING;

CALLUNA VULGARIS;

EID: 78649381494     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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