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Quantitative effects of soil organic matter on thermal conductivity modeling

2025· article· en· W4415321928 on OpenAlexaff
Xiangwei Wang, Tianyue Zhao, Chaoyue Zhao, Francis Zvomuya, Hailong He

Bibliographic record

VenueAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicGeothermal Energy Systems and Applications
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Manitoba
FundersHigh-end Foreign Experts Recruitment Plan of ChinaNational Key Research and Development Program of ChinaNatural Science Foundation of Shaanxi ProvinceNational Natural Science Foundation of China
KeywordsSoil waterSoil organic matterOrganic matterThermal conductivityMean squared errorBulk densitySensitivity (control systems)

Abstract

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• A large dataset consists of 1569 measurements from 208 soil samples was compiled. • Sensitivity of 15 models and 5 soil organic matter (SOM) levels were evaluated. • The normalized model is optimal for predicting thermal conductivity (λ). • λ is largely dependent on bulk density and water content. • The effect of SOM on λ modeling is minimal with SOM content ≤ 2.5 %. Soil thermal conductivity ( λ ) is a crucial parameter for energy transfer between the land and the atmosphere. An increasing number of studies have noted that changes in soil organic matter content ( ϕ som ) considerably influence λ . However, only a few studies have focused on quantifying the effects of soil organic matter (SOM) on λ modeling. In this study, the performances of 15 λ models that consider the effects of SOM were evaluated based on a compiled dataset consisting of 1569 measurements from 208 soils (0 %≤ ϕ som ≤40 %, mass content). Two random forest-based explainable artificial intelligence models, Shapley additive explanations (SHAP) and permutation importance (PI), were also applied to assess the SOM effects. The results showed that the model developed from normalizing Kersten function had the best prediction accuracy because of its realistic function types and parameter settings. The models of Johansen (1975), Balland and Arp (2005), Su et al. (2016), and Yan et al. (2019) performed the best, with NSE ≥ 0.71 and RMSE ≤ 0.3 W m -1 K -1 . Moreover, PI and SHAP demonstrate that the effect of SOM on λ is nonlinear, and the influence of SOM should be considered when ϕ som >2.5 %. There is a strong interaction between SOM and bulk density when ϕ som >2.5 %, significantly influencing λ .

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.896
Threshold uncertainty score0.394

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.222
Teacher spread0.212 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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