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Soil Thermometers
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Soil Thermometers

  • J. MacDOWALL1 

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Garvitch and Probine have quoted errors they had found for soil thermometers when checking their calibration at low temperatures. All their thermometers were from one manufacturer1.

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  1. Instrument Division, Meteorological Office, Air Ministry, Headstone Drive, Harrow, Middlesex

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