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SINDH AGRICULTURE UNIVERSITY

TANDOJAM
DEPARTMENT OF SOIL SCIENCE
SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIME

SANJAY KUMAR GANESHANI


MSC SOIL SCIENCE
DEPARTMENT OF SOIL SCIENCE
SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIME
 The temperature is the most important properties of soil, it control the
possibilities of plant growth and soil formation.
 In Soil Taxonomy, soil temperature regime are based on mean annual soil
temperature (MAST).
 In tropical soils the change is minimal, the difference between mean
summer temperature (MST) and mean winter temperature (MWT) of soil
being less 50 OC.
 Temperature varies from soil horizon to horizon.
SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIME

 Soil temperature is a measure of the amount of


heat or radiation from the sun absorbed by soil.
 Soil temperature are taken at a depth of 50 cm
from the soil surface.
 It measured in degrees Fahrenheit or Celsius.
 These regimes greatly effects the use and
management of soils, particularly for selection
of crop-plants.
IMPORTANCE OF SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIME

 Soil temperature influences the rate of weathering in soil, when the soil is
frozen or dry biological activity and chemical activity nearly stop.
 During a soil survey, the temperature of soils are recorded as one of the
properties both in soil genesis, classification and in soil use.
 Soil temperature regime is a soil classification creation (USDA Soil
Taxonomy).
SOIL TEMPERATURE REGIME
These main categories of soil temperature regime are:
 Pargelic
 Cryic
 Frigid
 Mesic
 Thermic
 Hyperthermic
 Iso-(prefix)
PARGELIC

 Pergelic temperature regime have a mean annual soil temperature lower


than 0 OC These are soils that have permafrost.
CRYIC

 Soils in this temperature regime have a mean annual temperature lower


than 8 OC but do not have permafrost.
FRIGID

 A soil with a frigid temperature regime is warmer in summer than a soil


with a cryic regime, but its mean annual temperature is lower than 8 OC
and the difference between mean summer and mean winter soil
temperatures is more than 6 OC.
MESIC

 The mean annual soil temperature is 8 OC or higher but lower than 15 OC,
and the difference between mean summer and mean winter soil
temperatures is more than 6 OC.
THERMIC

 The mean annual soil temperature is 15 OC or higher but lower than 22


O
C, and the difference between mean summer and mean winter soil
temperatures is more than 6 OC.
HYPERTHERMIC

 The mean annual soil temperature is 22 OC or higher, and the difference


between mean summer and mean winter soil temperatures is more than 6
O
C.
ISO

 If the name of a soil temperature regime has the prefix iso, the mean
summer and mean winter soil temperatures difference by less than 6 OC.

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