How can soil temperatures be compared at different locations? Compare the temperatures of desert soil and taiga soil online. How can soil temperatures be compared at different depths? How does the temperature change as you near the earth's core?

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How can soil temperatures be compared at different locations? Compare the temperatures of desert soil and taiga soil online.

How can soil temperatures be compared at different depths? How does the temperature change as you near the earth's core?

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How can soil temperatures be compared at different locations? Compare the temperatures of desert soil and taiga soil online?

With development in methodologies, now we have various tools that can compare the soil temperature of different region but soil temperature itself keeps on varying and depend on various other factors like vegetation cover, air temperature etc. The most effective way that recently we find is through remote sensing and GIS. We can do a Land Surface Temperature kind of study for this to find out how the soil temperature is varying in different regions. Thus, if we apply this here, soil temperature of desert soil will be more than 50 degree celsius while soil temperature of taiga will be around 5-6 degree celsius (during the day in summers). 

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