Abstract
Monthly averaged diurnal temperature patterns are used to study the thermal homogeneity of soil on which tea is grown under different mulch treatments. An effect of compaction of bare soil by a severe hailstorm is reported. A theory relating reflection coefficients of homogeneous soils to temperature fluctuations at different depths is successfully used in a comparison of diurnal variations. It is shown that the tea canopy acts only as an additional shade. The theory on mulch effects remains valid for growing tea if a simple shade correction is made on average temperature fluctuations.
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