Soil temperature varies from month to month as a function of incident solar radiation, rainfall, seasonal swings in overlying air temperature,
local vegetation cover, type of soil, and depth in the earth.
Not exact matches
Modifying the
vegetation cover alters the surface properties — such as the amount of heat dissipated by water evaporation and the level of radiation reflected back into space — which has a knock - on effect on
local surface temperature.
They compared
local temperatures when buildings were made of bare concrete with when the concrete was
covered in
vegetation.
The biosphere consists of animals and
vegetation and normally changes relatively slowly; reduced rainfall might take years to alter
vegetation cover significantly, although certain components (such as humankind) are capable of inducing quite rapid
local changes (by setting oil - fields ablaze, for example).
Furnace Creek Ranch / Greenland Ranch is, and has been, an oasis area with a variety of different ground
covers, and with an assortment of buildings and
vegetation which have significant effects on the
local temperature patterns on sunny summer days.
These stem from a diversity of site - specific conditions, including, but not limited to:
local vegetation; presence of building structures and contributions made by such structures involving energy use, heating and air conditioning, etc; exposure to winds, the wind velocities determined by climatic factors and also whether certain wind directions are more favored than others by terrain or the presence or absence thereof to bodies of water; proximity to grass, asphalt, concrete or other material surfaces; the physical conditions of the CRS itself which include: the exact location of the temperature sensors within it, the degree of unimpeded flow of external air through the CRS, the character of the paint used; the exact height of the instrument above the external surface (noting that when the ground is
covered by 3 feet of snow, the temperature instrument is about 60 % closer to, or less than 2 feet, above an excellent radiating surface, much closer than it would be under snow - free conditions).
The continued shrinkage of thaw ponds could bring significant changes to
local ecosystems, as spruce forest is likely to supplant tundra as the dominant land
cover.14, 20 This could lead to a northward advance of some species of plants and other trees, while leaving resident
vegetation more vulnerable to early mortality — potentially further disrupting the climate.14, 20,21