Tropical Zone
Lighting controls and energy savings potential in tropical zone
... Reducing global energy consumption is a challenge to limit the rise in average earth temperature. The use of lighting controls in the building leads to energy savings. The objective of this study is to evaluate the ...
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Optimizing ultraviolet B radiation exposure to prevent vitamin D deficiency among pregnant women in the tropical zone: report from cohort study on vitamin D status and its impact during pregnancy in Indonesia
... Vitamin D deficiency has been recognized as a global pub- lic health problem and it plays a wide role in health and disease prevention [1]. Previously, it has been presumed that vitamin D deficiency will be more common ...
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Constraints for adoption of recommended crop production technologies faced by the potato growers in the sub-tropical zone of Jammu division
... Jammu and Kashmir State has varied diverse climatic zones of temperate, sub-tropical and cold desert. The study was conducted in Jammu province (sub- tropical). Three districts namely Jammu, Kathua and ...
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5. Evaluation of productivity of tomatoes under the effect of fertilization in tropical zone : Case study of Lubumbashi
... Tomato’s an excellent fruit vegetable source of nutrients involved in maintaining the best health form in humans (Bresy et al., 2013). This culture’s more appreciated by its content a vitamins, carotenoids, phenolic ...
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Study of a Bioclimatic Building in Wet Tropical Zone: Application of the Study of the Thermal Behavior of a Building in Cote D'ivoire
... This zone is defined as the part of the Earth's surface that receives the Sun’s rays twice a year and it is perpendicular at noon when the sun passes to the ...the tropical regions are alternately subjected ...
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Characterization of Dust on Solar PV of Tropical Zone of India
... ABSTRACT: Solar energy plays a major part in clean energy generation all over the globe due to faster technology advancements. Performance of solar cells in clean and dusty conditions is investigated in this paper. The ...
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Optimal Environmental Conditions for Yam Storage in South East (Tropical) Zone of Nigeria
... 2 also showed weight loss versus number of weeks for small size tuber yam which indicated the values of weight loss from a Designed Barn as the least compared to other st[r] ...
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Influence of the Quality of Maintenance of Fish Ponds on the Biomass of Zooplankton in situ in Tropical Zone (Yaoundé-Cameroon-Central Africa)
... During the complete cycle, the temperature ranged between 23-26 ° C for the peasant ponds and 24.5-27.5 ° C for ET. These values were close to those recorded in the Yaounde Municipal Lake [27], and in the Simbock-Yaounde ...
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Global warming: Changes of Agroclimatic zones in humid subtropical, mountainous and high mountainous regions of Georgia
... sub-tropical zone of Guria region, Georgia (which extends from the Black Sea coast to the south-east to 500 m), in case of increase of temperature by 1°C and the baseline, there were determined sustainable ...
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PROTECTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS: A LEGAL PERSPECTIVE IN THE STATE OF JAMMU & KASHMIR
... TABLE 1: DISTRIBUTION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN J & K Forest Division Location Common Species Sub Tropical Zone 1000-6000 ft above msl Ramnagar forest division Kalounta, Saamnabarj, Dudu Em[r] ...
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Forest Dwellers’ Perception on Climate Change and Their Adaptive Strategies to Withstand Impacts in Mizoram, North East India
... In the present study most concerns were raised by forest dwellers on climatic variability are increasing temperature, irregularity in rainfall, dry spell during summer and decreasing winter. Similar observations have ...
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The global potential for carbon capture and storage from forestry
... With non-harvest (status quo), as a background, we are now ready to model forest development under four alternative harvest-replanting scenarios. All harvesting strategies assume immediate replanting so that the land ...
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Annual Fluctuations and Displacements of Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) within the Range of Atlantic Ocean India
... Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) is one of the major systems in mak- ing the general circulation of atmosphere. Many climatologists believe that the starting point of the general circulation of ...
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Land Cover Changes of Tropical Forest Buffer zone A case study of Kudawa Village, Sinharaja forest buffer zone; Sri Lanka Thanura Madusanka Silva
... buffer zone of Sri Lanka ...buffer zone of a forest land undertaken the responsivity of protecting the fragile area and rainforest buffer zone protect most sensitive zones of the world and the local ...
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Short Term International Study For Teachers As A Form of Experiential Learning: A Case Study of American Educators in Turkey
... For the 2012/2013 TC season, most of the TCs formed east of the major upwelling zone of the SCTR, in the 60–80ºE longitude range. In Figure 2.3, we see the Rossby wave enters the SWTIO in mid-2012 (dashed black ...
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The influence of critical zone processes on the Mg isotope budget in a tropical, highly weathered andesitic catchment
... Bernasconi, S.M., Bauder, A., Bourdon, B., Brunner, I., Bünemann, E., Chris, I., Derungs, N., Edwards, P., Farinotti, D., Frey, B., Frossard, E., Furrer, G., Gierga, M., Göransson, H., Gülland, K., Hagedorn, F., Hajdas, ...
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Assessment of Variability in the Quality of an Acrisol under Different Land Use Systems in Ghana
... Data on plant litter accumulation indicated that the natu- ral fallow accumulated greater amount of plant litter (Ta- ble 5). Biomass accumulation per hectare during the stu- dy period on the natural fallow (5610 kg/ha) ...
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Persistent decadal-scale rainfall variability in the tropical South Pacific Convergence Zone through the past six centuries
... on tropical islands is controlled by the scale of the convective system, rather than the source of the water vapor (Kurita, 2013), a finding that indicates that mesoscale convection plays a key role in the amount ...
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Simulated effects of a seasonal precipitation change on the vegetation in tropical Africa
... The effect of a seasonal change in the seasonality distribu- tion of precipitation on the vegetation has been tested with an equilibrium vegetation model. Our simulations confirm that at all sites, located near the ...
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Geographical ecology of dry forest tree communities in the West Indies
... closed-canopy tropical and subtropical forests typically found in frost-free areas character- ized by low and seasonal availability of moisture, where annual rain- fall is less than ...from tropical savanna ...
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