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- From: map@violet.berkeley.edu (Pollen Lab;103 ESB;38108;;NZ29)
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- Subject: Re: climate
- Date: 28 Jan 1993 19:27:13 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <01GU117LD10U0017JC@EKU.BITNET> GEOWASSE@EKU.BITNET writes:
- >> ... 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.
- >
- > The average environmental lapse rate is 6.5oC / 1000m
-
- I think you can do better than the global average ELR for your
- study area. In the Sierra Nevada, Jack Major from UC Davis used
- climate data from the existing stations to calculate temperature
- lapse rates along various E-W transects. He generally found a
- temperature decrease of about 0.5 deg. C / 100m. If you can get
- the existing temperature records for your area (e.g. off the
- World Weather CD-ROM or other digital source), it would be easy
- to calculate average temperature lapse rates for your areas in Utah.
-
- Eric Edlund
- U.C.Berkeley Geography
- eric@pollen1.berkeley.edu
-