ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BASE FOR REGIONAL STUDIES IN THE HUMID TROPICS

Abstract

This fifth semiannual progress report on the Environmental Data Base Project contains a brief background of the project, its objectives, approach, and sites of operation, and presents a summary of activities for the period September 1967 through February 1968, with some analyses and syntheses of selected data. The Climate section presents an analysis of the Wet Bulb Globe Temperature data. The Soils and Hydrology section presents a summary of the data collected at the Fort Kobbe Satellite site. The Vegetation section contains a discussion and description of utility of individual plant species as indicators of forest succession and development. The section of Microbiology and Chemistry of the Atmosphere presents a discussion of the role played by microorganisms in the modification of chemical contaiminants of the atmosphere and their potential effects on materials exposed to the environment.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0688848

Entities

People

  • Edward E. Garrett

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemistry
  • Climate
  • Databases
  • Environment
  • Fungi
  • Human Body
  • Instrumentation
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Meteorological Instruments
  • Microbiology
  • Microorganisms
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Plants
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wet Bulb Temperature

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Climatology
  • Wetland-Land-Environmental Management.

Technology Areas

  • Space