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The experimental \(\kappa (\theta )\) curves, where \(\kappa \) is soil thermal diffusivity and \(\theta \) is water content, were obtained for arable loamy soils and then were parameterized with a 4-parameter approximating function.
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Author thanks the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research for the financial support of the work (project No 13-04-01475).
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Arkhangelskaya, T. (2014). Parameterization of Soil Thermal Diffusivity Versus Moisture Content Dependencies and Modeling Spatial Heterogeneity of Soil Temperature. In: Pardo-Igúzquiza, E., Guardiola-Albert, C., Heredia, J., Moreno-Merino, L., Durán, J., Vargas-Guzmán, J. (eds) Mathematics of Planet Earth. Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32408-6_46
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