Name: | soil_temperature | Abbreviation: | st | Unit: | K |
Definition | The average soil temperature on the top 20cm of the soil layer. |
Validity | instantaneous |
Comment |
GRIB 2 |
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Comments
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Jörg Urban | ECMWFs has four soil layers: layer 1 from 0cm to 7cm, layer 2 from 7cm to 28cm, layer 3 from 28cm to 1m and layer 4 from 1m to 2.89m. The parameter soil temperature is then computed: st = ( 7 * T_1 + 13 * T_2 )/20, where T_i are the averaged soil temperatures on the i-th level. |