Desert Environmental Considerations

Abstract

The document provides background information on the test of materials in a desert environment and discusses desert environmental characteristics, climate, temperature, solar radiation, humidity, terrain, desert types, desert terrain, classification, distribution, sand, dust, vegetation, and camouflage. Appendixes provide world extreme hot-dry temperature distribution and computation of Yuma degree-hour levels.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 10, 1972
Accession Number
AD0766261

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army Test and Evaluation Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Climate Change
  • Electromagnetic Radiation
  • Groundwater
  • Heat Energy
  • Igneous Rocks
  • Latent Heat
  • Measurement
  • Mechanics
  • Meteorology
  • Optics
  • Quantum Yields
  • Ridges
  • Terrain
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thermodynamics

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  • Exercise and Sports Science.
  • Geotechnical Engineering.
  • Vision Science/Vision Psychology/Cognitive Neuroscience.