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Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-631-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/soil-1-631-2015
© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Articles | Volume 1, issue 2
Short communication
 | 
21 Sep 2015
Short communication |  | 21 Sep 2015

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

C. Rasmussen, R. E. Gallery, and J. S. Fehmi

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There is a need to understand the response of soil systems to predicted climate warming for modeling soil processes. Current experimental methods for soil warming include expensive and difficult to implement active and passive techniques. Here we test a simple, inexpensive in situ passive soil heating approach, based on easy to construct infrared mirrors that do not require automation or enclosures. Results indicated that the infrared mirrors yielded significant heating and drying of soils.
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