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Microclimate changes in a spruce stand and meadow ecosystem during a solar eclipse in the Czech Republic
Author(s) -
Nezval Ondřej,
Pavelka Marian
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
weather
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.467
H-Index - 40
eISSN - 1477-8696
pISSN - 0043-1656
DOI - 10.1002/wea.2802
Subject(s) - microclimate , solar eclipse , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , ecosystem , wind speed , relative humidity , forest ecology , eclipse , humidity , climatology , meteorology , geography , ecology , geology , physics , astronomy , biology , archaeology
The objective of this article is to verify the effects of a sudden, short‐term change in radiation conditions on microclimatic characteristics within differing ecosystems (forest and meadow) during a partial solar eclipse in spring 2015. During the phenomenon, changes were detected in all measured parameters: global radiation, short‐wave radiation, air temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed and direction. It can generally be stated that changes in the meadow and at the free‐standing climatological station were more considerable than were those in the enclosed forest stand, where the microclimate was more stable. It can be further stated that even a partial solar eclipse has a substantial effect on microclimatic characteristics in various ecosystem types.