The DOI matches its Crossref record.
Soil temperature profiles during infiltration and redistribution of cool and warm irrigation water
Abstract
Soil temperatures were measured in field profiles irrigated with cool and warm water and also measured in nonirrigated soil. Differences in soil temperature between plots after irrigation with cool (4.1°C) and warm (21.6°C) water, persisted longer at the lower soil depths. The time required after an irrigation for these differences to decline to less than 1°C was 14 hours at the 1‐cm depth, 36 hours at the 10‐cm depth, and 42 hours at the 20‐cm depth. A numerical procedure developed for predicting changes in soil temperature through the soil profile after irrigation with cool and warm water gave good agreement between observed and calculated values in the subsoil but not in the surface soil. During infiltration heat transfer occurred mainly by mass movement, whereas after 10 hours soil heat transfer below 10 cm occurred mainly by conduction.
Overview
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
In the citing paper
“As infiltration speed slows, heat transfer is equally governed by thermal equilibration (conduction) and mass movement (Jaynes, 1998; Wierenga et al., 1970).”
From Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature (2024) · cites this paper as Wierenga et al., 1970
In the citing paper
“After some time, when water movement is reduced, conduction acts as the primary driver of heat transfer and there is a reduced rate of mass transfer between soil layers (Jaynes, 1998; Wierenga et al., 1970).”
From Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature (2024) · cites this paper as Wierenga et al., 1970
In the citing paper
“For example, in saturated soils temperatures ranged from 4.1 ◦ C to 21.6 ◦ C within the first 13 cm, but remained constant at a depth of 60 cm (Lu et al., 2003; Wierenga et al., 1970).”
From Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature (2024) · cites this paper as Wierenga et al., 1970
In the citing paper
“Finally, a media's hydraulic conductivity controls the rate and depth water will infiltrate (de Vries, 1975; Lu et al., 2003; Wierenga et al., 1970) and therefore will influence advective and convective heat transfer processes dependent on infiltration rates.”
From Review of emerging contaminants in green stormwater infrastructure: antibiotic resistance genes, microplastics, tire wear particles, PFAS, and temperature (2024) · cites this paper as Wierenga et al., 1970
Citations
Cites
No references could be resolved yet.
Research works printed but not linked: 12
- Becker F., 1937, Die Erdbodentemperaturen als Indikator der Versicherung, Met. Z., 54, 372
- 10.1029/TR035i001p00145 · DOI
- Callendar H. L., 1895, Preliminary results of observations of soil temperatures with electrical resistance thermometers, made at the McDonald Physics Building, McGill University, Trans. Roy. Soc. Can., Montreal, 1, 63
- Crawford C. B. Soil temperatures a review of published records Highway Res. Board Spec. Rep. 2 17–41 1952.
- 10.1017/S0370164600009421 · DOI
- Geiger Rudolf, 1965, The Climate Near the Ground
- 10.2134/agronj1968.00021962006000060012x · DOI
- Matsubayashi M., 1950, Studies on the flood irrigation of upland crops, 1. Effect of irrigation on wheat and soil temperature, Reclam. Melior., 3, 15
- Sarson P. B., 1960, Exceptional sudden changes of earth temperature, Meteorol. Mag., 9, 201
- Shul'gin A. M., 1965, The Temperature Regime of Soils
- Wierenga P. J. An analysis of temperature behavior in irrigated soil profiles Ph.D. thesis University of California Davis 1968.
- 10.2136/sssaj1969.03615995003300030009x · DOI
Cited by
Sorted by citations
Bodus, B., O'Malley, K., Dieter, G., Gunawardana, C., & McDonald, W. (2024) · Science of The Total Environment · doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.167195 · Cited by 76
Metadata
- Authors
- Wierenga, P. J., Hagan, R. M., & Nielsen, D. R.
- Venue
- Water Resources Research
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 1970-02
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 230-238
- ISSN
- 0043-1397 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-7973
- OpenAlex
- W2116795773
- Cited by
- 42
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 8.52
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Water Resources Research (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Civil and Structural Engineering › Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Soil Science › Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Computational Mechanics › Heat and Mass Transfer in Porous Media
- Keywords
- soil temperature profiles, irrigation water temperature, infiltration, heat conduction, thermal convection, soil heat transfer
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Soil temperature profiles during infiltration and redistribution of cool and warm irrigation water. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1029/wr006i001p00230
- The paper
- Wierenga, P. J., Hagan, R. M., & Nielsen, D. R. (1970). Soil temperature profiles during infiltration and redistribution of cool and warm irrigation water. Water Resources Research. https://doi.org/10.1029/wr006i001p00230
