microclimate
微气候,小气候,微型气候,微观气候
Definitions
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- : the climate of a small area, as of confined spaces such as caves or houses , of plant communities, wooded areas, etc. , or of urban communities, which may be different from that in the general region.
Examples
The bicomponent fabric places soft merino wool against the skin and durable synthetic on the exterior, creating a warm-when-cool, cool-when-warm microclimate while readily wicking moisture.
The limestone walls towered some 20-30 meters above us, creating a cool microclimate for forest plants to thrive and humans and animals to take shelter.
They carefully registered if they seemed to be regulating their temperature either by occupying a cooler microclimate or by moving their wings in different directions.
“What we found was that the species which were more reliant on using microclimate tended to be the species that have declined the most over the last 40 years,” he says.
There can be microclimates within the city that shift by street.
Its microclimate and soil cannot be replicated, nor can the wine (a bottle of the 1999 vintage fetches $1,795).
The microclimate of the drainage differs markedly from that of other stations.