Climate temperature weather

Effects of solarization were found related to a combination of many parameters, though most authors agreed that soil temperature and moisture, climate and weather, and type and properties of mulching film are key factors for solarization results (Katan et al. 1987 Stapleton and DeVay 1995). 

Temperature and moisture are the major environmental variables affecting weathering rates. Assuming similar chronological ages and parent materials, the difference in composition of the South Dakota, North Carolina, and Costa Rican soils of Table 7.2 illustrates the effects primarily of temperature. Weathering is much fester in the warm climate of Costa Rica than in the cold winters and short summers of South Dakota. North Carolina s climate is intermediate between the two. 

Abstract This chapter discusses the importance of climate and weather to crop yields and quaUly. It describes how climate is affected by local factors such as altitude and goes on to explain the importance of rainfall and temperature in particular. It discusses the influence of weather and cUmate on diseases and soil factors such as organic matter decomposition. Finally, the chapter discusses climate change, the possible future scenarios and how agriculture may have contributed. 

Will the climate/weather (earthquake, flood, fog, hurricane, lightning, smog, snow, tornado, and very low temperature) materially affect plant operations ... 

Finally, increases in the intensity or variability of weather are considered another form of indirect evidence reflecting whether Earth is currently undergoing human-driven climate change. Predictions of increased incidence of extreme temperatures, tornadoes, thunderstorms, dust storms and fire-promoting weather have been drawn from basic global climate change theoiy. However, evidence has not so far borne out these predictions on a global scale. The IPCC concludes ... 

Nature of climate. Consider seasonal and daily temperature variations, dust, fog, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes. Define duration of conditions for design. Determine from U.S. Weather Bureau yearly statistics for above, as well as rainfall. Establish if conditions for earthquakes, hurricanes prevail. For stormy conditions, structural design for 100 miles per hour winds usually sufficient. For hurricanes, winds of 125 miles per hour may be design basis. 

Land/atmospheric interfacial processes which impact climate and biological activity on earth are illustrated in Figure 3. Emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrogen dioxide, and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) have been linked to the transmission of solar radiation to the surface of the earth as well as to the transmission of terrestrial radiation to space. Should solar radiation be an internal process or an external driver of the hydrologic cycle, weather, and air surface temperatures Compounds of sulfur and nitrogen are associated with acidic precipitation and damage to vegetation, aquatic life, and physical structures. 

Other data such as light intensity, percentage cloud cover, and soil moisture may also be recorded. The use of meteorological equipment, which can measure critical climatic information such as wind speed (current, maximum and average), humidity, air temperature, and dew-forming point, is preferable in the field. Historic weather data in the form of 10-year averages must be reported and are required for comparison of the trial specific data with the normal weather data. 

Figure 73. Average monthly day-minimum, day-maximum and day-average temperatures at Croydon and average typical temperature range of the climate station High Holbome London Weather Centre—(design temperatures)...

Atmospheric information, including local climate (precipitation, temperature, wind speed and direction, presence of inversion layers), weather extremes (storms, floods, winds), release characteristics (direction and speed of plume movement, rate, amount, and temperature of release, relative densities), and types of atmospheric hazards and hazards assessment... 

The warm-weather climates necessary for citrus orchards generally minimize the risk of frost conditions. Nevertheless, occasionally measures are needed to protect the trees and their fruit from freezing temperatures. Citrus crops become threatened when temperatures fall below 28°F for four hours or moreJ l Heating... 

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