EVALUATION OF AN ECONOMICAL INSTRUMENT SHELTER FOR MICROCLIMATOLOGICAL STUDIES

Abstract

A number of inexpensive, lightweight instrument shelters capable of screening meteorological instruments in the field were required for an ecological research project in northern Alaska. Such a shelter had to be inexpensive, collapsible for shipment, easily assembled in the field, capable of housing recording instruments as large as a Friez hygrothermograph, and comparable to a standard U. S. Weather Bureau shelter or Stevenson screen in its ambinet thermal characteristics. These criteria were met by a design which was fabricated and successfully employed at six sites at Barrow, Alaska, during July and August 1964.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1966
Accession Number
AD0640384

Entities

People

  • P. L. Johnson
  • T. C. Vogel

Organizations

  • Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Aluminum
  • Cold Regions
  • Engineering
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Measuring Instruments
  • Meteorological Instruments
  • New Hampshire
  • Radiation
  • Solar Radiation
  • Standards
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thermocouples
  • United States
  • Virtual Reality

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design