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: Received: 19 August 2023 / Approved: 21 August 2023 / Online: 22 August 2023 (10:51:59 CEST)
How to cite:
Guerra Sosa, C. E.; Pinzón, R. Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Analysis in a Mangrove Ecosystem Area in the Bahía De Panamá (Panama Bay) Wetland. Preprints2023, 2023081492. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1492.v1
Guerra Sosa, C. E.; Pinzón, R. Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Analysis in a Mangrove Ecosystem Area in the Bahía De Panamá (Panama Bay) Wetland. Preprints 2023, 2023081492. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1492.v1
Guerra Sosa, C. E.; Pinzón, R. Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Analysis in a Mangrove Ecosystem Area in the Bahía De Panamá (Panama Bay) Wetland. Preprints2023, 2023081492. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1492.v1
APA Style
Guerra Sosa, C. E., & Pinzón, R. (2023). Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Analysis in a Mangrove Ecosystem Area in the Bahía De Panamá (Panama Bay) Wetland. Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1492.v1
Chicago/Turabian Style
Guerra Sosa, C. E. and Reinhardt Pinzón. 2023 "Air Temperature and Relative Humidity Analysis in a Mangrove Ecosystem Area in the Bahía De Panamá (Panama Bay) Wetland" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202308.1492.v1
Abstract
Panama possesses multiple wetlands designated as protected areas and zones of internationally recognized importance, one amongst them, the Bahía de Panamá wetland Ramsar site, which represents approximately 21% of the national mangrove surface coverage. Due to the major ecological and economic relevance of mangrove ecosystems and their vulnerability to the effects of a changing climate it is considered necessary to perform in situ studies that evaluate the changes in sensitive meteorological parameters. This research was carried out with the objective of measuring air temperature and relative humidity values in a section of the Panama Bay wetland for the 2017-2018 period. This section, neighboring urban development projects, houses since the year 2015 the first tower for determining eddy covariance and measuring micrometeorological parameters in mangrove forests in Panama. We determined monthly and yearly mean values for the studied variables and determined the correlation between them with the use of Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Results show that both parameters still remain at tolerable levels for this type of ecosystems, with both years having very similar annual mean temperatures (27.47 ± 0.32°C for 2017 and 27.48 ± 0.67°C for 2018) and the annual mean relative humidity for 2018, being 85.35%.
Keywords
Panama Bay wetland; mangroves; air temperature; relative humidity; correlation; climate change
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Environmental Science
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