Climate Studies
Climate is a basic component of LTER sites and is specifically
considered in many of the principal hypotheses investigated
at individual sites. Climate is not only a disturbance factor
common to all sites, but is also a major driving control of
the whole ecosystem of the sites.
Important past and ongoing
climate-related projects conducted at LTER sites include:
- Measurements
of micro- or mesoscale variables and fluxes
- Hydrological measurements
and modeling
- Some atmospheric deposition measurements
- Unique studies of carbon dioxide flux eddy-correlation
(Harvard Forest)
- Coherence among lake climate and chemistry
(North Temperate Lakes)
- Lightning strikes (Sevilleta)
For more information contact:
David Greenland
dgreenland@lternet.edu
(503) 346-4541
or
Doug Goodin
dgoodin@lternet.edu
(785) 532-6727
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