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Modelling high‐latitude summer temperature patterns using physiographic variables
Author(s) -
Sadoti Giancarlo,
McAfee Stephanie A.,
Roland Carl A.,
Fleur Nicklen E.,
Sousanes Pamela J.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal of climatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.58
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-0088
pISSN - 0899-8418
DOI - 10.1002/joc.5538
Subject(s) - lapse rate , transect , latitude , environmental science , elevation (ballistics) , climatology , mean radiant temperature , air temperature , atmospheric sciences , geology , climate change , oceanography , geodesy , geometry , mathematics
Observational networks are important for an improved understanding of ecohydrological processes and for improving gridded climate products, yet few studies employing these networks have been undertaken at higher latitudes. We evaluated physiographic controls on summer temperature in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska, United States while accounting for synoptic temperature conditions, finding shallow minimum temperature lapse rates, effects of solar radiation, and interactions between physiography and synoptic conditions. Average temperature from monthly gridded climate data was overall warmer than observed while lapse rates from observed data were somewhat steeper and more variable over time than gridded data.