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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 21:50:10 -0500
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- Subject: Re: climate
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- >you exactly plan to deal with elevational effects on temperature... I assume
- >that some algorithim exists for determining rate of change of temperature
- >based on average slope rise, or somesuch, but I am not quite clear on that.
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- The average environmental lapse rate is 6.5oC / 1000m
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- Adiabatic rates may also prove useful, but accurate data for a
- given air mass is more difficult to acquire.
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- Arco Wasserman
- Department of Geography and Planning
- Eastern Kentucky University Bitnet: Geowasse@eku.bitnet
- Richmond KY 40475-3129 Tel: (606) 622-1424
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