Passive soil heating using an inexpensive infrared mirror design – A proof of concept

SOIL

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 631-639

  Rasmussen, C ^a   Gallery, R E ^a,b   Fehmi, J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; COOLING; DESIGN METHOD; HEAT CAPACITY; SOIL ORGANIC MATTER; SOIL SURFACE; SOIL-VEGETATION INTERACTION;

EID: 84989957520     PISSN: 21993971     EISSN: 2199398X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/soil-1-631-2015     Document Type: Article

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