Multivariate Bioclimatic Ecosystem Change Approaches

Abstract

Changes in climatic parameters are important in that they affect the military s ability to perform its national defense mission and to manage military lands. The military must have the ability to predict climatic changes on specific installations. To support this need, the research tested and evaluated the application of six multivariate approach techniques to predict climatic changes on a specific Army installation, Fort Benning, GA. The six approaches were tested for their ability to identify where anticipated future conditions might be found today using a set of 19 bioclimatic parameters derived from climate change data. The evaluation found that the Primarily Analogous Multivariate approach developed during this research clearly distinguished itself from the other five approaches in that it successfully determined future climatic factors at the installation, as well as at the sub-installation level using the currently available climatic data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 06, 2015
Accession Number
ADA614143

Entities

People

  • James D. Westervelt
  • Robert C. Lozar

Organizations

  • Engineer Research and Development Center

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Birds
  • Cells
  • Climate Change
  • Computational Science
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Databases
  • Ecology
  • Ecosystems
  • Environment
  • Fungi
  • Geography
  • Information Science
  • Multivariate Analysis
  • Natural Resources
  • United States
  • Wildlife

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