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Thermic

A soil temperature regime that has mean annual soil temperatures of 15°C or more but <22°C, and >5°C difference between mean summer and mean winter soil temperatures at 50 cm below the surface. Isothermic is the same except the summer and winter temperatures differ by <5°C.

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