ENVIRONMENTAL DATA BASE FOR REGIONAL STUDIES IN THE HUMID TROPICS.

Abstract

The report, summarizes the activities of the Environmental Data Base Project for the period March 1968 through 1969 and contains a brief statement on project background, scope, and observation sites, together with some analyses of the collected data. The Climate Section contains an operational description of the automatic data and recording system, a detailed analysis of the climatological and measurement aspects of evaporation. The Soils and Hydrology Section presents the profile descriptions of the soils at the Fort Kobbe Satellite Sites. The Vegetation Section contains an analysis of litter fall at the Albrook Forest Site. The section of Atmospheric Chemistry consists of a brief summarization of activities in this field for the reporting period. The section on Macrofauna contains a tabulated listing of insects secured under the black-light sampling program. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 1969
Accession Number
AD0701109

Entities

People

  • Edward E. Garrett

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Artificial Satellites
  • Atmospheric Chemistry
  • Automated Text Summarization
  • Automatic
  • Chemistry
  • Databases
  • Evaporation
  • Hydrology
  • Measurement
  • Observation
  • Recording Systems
  • Sampling
  • Vegetation

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

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

Technology Areas

  • Space