The seventh American Meteorological Society national conference on agricultural meteorology, August 23–September 1, 1966
✍ Scribed by Paul E. Waggoner
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1967
- Weight
- 38 KB
- Volume
- 4
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-1571
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✦ Synopsis
Approximately 100 attended from North America and seven countries abroad. Fully 50 papers were presented. The abstracts are in American Meteorological Society Bulletin, 47 : 457-473. A few highlights can be mentioned.
Drought is surely the chief limit to crop and tree growth, and evaporation and the radiation that furnishes the energy were chief topics. In evaporation, the new themes seen were inspecting the plant stand in detail, locating the losses within the canopy and understanding the control of the leaf epidermis upon the losses.
In radiation coping with fluctuations, especially beneath the forest or crop canopy, and infrared thermometry were subjects for new attention.
New knowledge about diffusion of spores and pollen was reported. The forest alters the dispersal of pollen, impaction mattering little and settling much. Although distant spreads of pathogenic fungi have been accepted, trajectories of lots of spores about the British Isles have now been observed.
Since agricultural meteorology is--after all--an earnest matter dedicated to aiding society in gaining food and wood, its employment was examined. Rational investment in weatherproofing for a dairy farm and distributing fertilizers were examples examined where meteorological information has been useful in the agricultural game.