Soil Temperature ---- ----------- The soil model consists of 3 layer: depth GRIB description 0 - 10 cm 0-10cm (10.dlr) top layer 10 - 200 cm 10-200cm (200.dlr) middle layer 200 - 400 cm 300cm (300.dpl) bottom layer The GRIB description for the bottom layer is imprecise because of a flaw in GRIB which does not allow encoding of a 200-400 cm layer. The annual cycle in the soil temperature decreases in amplitude with depth. The model assumes that the bottom layer has no time variations of temperature (not a bad assumption). The temperature of the bottom layer is set to the annual-mean surface temperature climatology so that the net heat flux from the bottom layer should be approach zero.