A Preliminary Analysis of Climatological Data from the Marsabit District of Northern Kenya: IPAL Technical Paper Number B-1

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dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
dc.contributor.authorUnited Nations Environment Programme
dc.contributor.organizationEcosystems Division
dc.coverage.spatialKenya
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-08T21:06:44Z
dc.date.available2019-08-08T21:06:44Z
dc.date.issued1979-08
dc.descriptionThe Integrated Project in Arid Lands (IPAL) was initiated in 1976 in the Marsabit District of Northern Kenya to study the arid grazing lands ecosystems. One of the major inputs to the ecosystem is the climate. Rainfall, in particular, controls the moisture status of the soils, the abundance and distribution of vegetation and the availability of groundwater. Thus, the distribution and number of livestock and the size of the human populations which can subsist on the livestock are ultimately dependent upon rainfall and the balance between input and losses in the soil-plant-atmosphere system.en
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dc.identifier.urihttps://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/29267
dc.languageEnglish
dc.page.number50 p.
dc.rights.accessLevelPublic
dc.subjectKenya
dc.subjectarid zone
dc.subjectland
dc.subjectclimatology
dc.subjectrain
dc.subjectradiation
dc.subjectprecipitation
dc.subjectrainfall
dc.subjecttemperature
dc.subjectwind power
dc.titleA Preliminary Analysis of Climatological Data from the Marsabit District of Northern Kenya: IPAL Technical Paper Number B-1en
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