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    • Soil Temperature and Moisture Model

    Metadata Updated: April 21, 2025

    Purpose: The STM2 model predicts the soil temperature and moisture conditions based on very limited user inputs. The input requirements are:

    1. A general soil characterization (soil texture and organic matter content)
    2. Daily weather information limited to maximum and minimum air temperatures with daily precipitation.

    There is a help file that describes the program included in the file list below (STM2_description.doc).

    Disclaimer: The USDA-ARS makes no warranties as to the merchantability or fitness of STM2 for any particular purpose, or any other warranties expressed or implied. Since some portions of STM2 have been validated with only limited data sets, it should not be used to make operational management decisions. The USDA-ARS is not liable for any damages resulting from the use or misuse of STM2, its output and its accompanying documentation.

    STM2 was written in Java, and therefore can run on multiple platforms (e.g. Windows, Mac, Unix).


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    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: Creative Commons CCZero

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from USDA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date March 30, 2024
    Metadata Updated Date April 21, 2025
    Publisher Agricultural Research Service
    Maintainer
    Identifier 10113/AA22642
    Data Last Modified 2024-02-13
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 005:18
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    License https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
    Program Code 005:040
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash bed86394734bbd6a77c9c306255d9221a23b20a9c0b1ca1aebc3149d01973e69
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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