Weather and Climate Trends of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site
Weather and Climate Trends of Saugus Iron Works National Historic Site

Author: National Park Service

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-10

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781492928515

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The Northeast Temperate Network's (NETN) Vital Signs Monitoring Plan (Mitchell et al. 2006) lists weather and climate as one of 23 indicators (or "Vital Signs") that the network will monitor to track the ecological health of park natural resources. This report provides a weather and climate summary for the period from 1 January 2011 through 31 December 2011, and places current patterns and trends into historical and regional context. This report satisfies an inherent interest in park-specific reporting of meteorological conditions and trends and meets a portion of NETN's, National Capital Region Network's (NCRN), and Northeast Coastal Barrier Network's (NCBN) weather and climate monitoring objectives.

Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and Valley Forge National Historical Park Weather of 2009
Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and Valley Forge National Historical Park Weather of 2009

Author: National Park Service

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9781492375517

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Weather and climate are widely recognized as key drivers of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, affecting biotic as well as abiotic ecosystem characteristics and processes. Global and regional scale climatic patterns, trends, and variations are critical to the cycling of elements, nutrients, and minerals through the ecosystems and can deliver pollutants from regional and even global sources (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001). These variations and trends influence the fundamental properties of ecologic systems such as soil-water relationships and plant-soil processes and their disturbance rates and intensity. Information obtained from meteorological monitoring will be useful to interpreting and understanding changes in species composition, community structure, water and soil chemistry, and related landscape processes (Comiskey and Callahan 2008).

Weather of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and Valley Forge National Historical Park Mid-Atlantic Network Summary Report For 2011
Weather of Hopewell Furnace National Historic Site and Valley Forge National Historical Park Mid-Atlantic Network Summary Report For 2011

Author: National Park Service

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2013-09-13

Total Pages: 26

ISBN-13: 9781492375579

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Weather and climate are widely recognized as key drivers of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, affecting biotic as well as abiotic ecosystem characteristics and processes. Global and regional scale climatic patterns, trends, and variations are critical to the cycling of elements, nutrients, and minerals through ecosystems and can deliver pollutants from regional and even global sources (National Assessment Synthesis Team 2001). These variations and trends influence the fundamental properties of ecologic systems such as soil-water relationships and plant-soil processes and their disturbance rates and intensity. Information obtained from meteorological monitoring will be useful to interpreting and understanding changes in species composition, community structure, water and soil chemistry, and related landscape processes (Comiskey and Callahan 2008).