On the Use of Stigter's Ratio in Expressing the Thermal Efficiency of Grass Mulches
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Experimental Agriculture
- Vol. 21 (2) , 169-174
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0014479700012448
Abstract
SUMMARY: Data from mulched tea show that an earlier defined ratio of temperature fluctuations in thermally homogeneous soil can be successfully used in rating the thermal efficiency of artificial grass mulches. The efficiency of a natural mulch of growing grass is also determined for comparison. It is demonstrated that the use of the ratio is more precise than using average temperatures in assessing the effects of the mulches.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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