Soil Heat Flux

Soil heat storage or release can be significant over a few hours, but is usually small from day to day because heat stored as the soil warms early in the day is lost when the soil cools late in the day or at night. Since the magnitude of daily soil heat flux over a 10- to 30-day period is small when the soil is under a crop cover, it can normally be ignored for most energy balance estimates. SWAT+ assumes the daily soil heat flux, $G$, is always equal to zero.