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Changes in microclimate with location and time at a coastal site in Estonia
Organization(s):Estonian Learning Expedition
Country:Estonia
Student(s):Anna Maare Floren ( Rakvere Riigigümnaasium )
Andri Kingisepp ( Pärnu Jaagupi Põhikool )
Barbora Tomalová ( Gymnázium a SOŠ Moravské Budějovice )
Tuuli Hommik ( Antsla Gümnaasium )
Sirelin Käo ( Põlva Kool )
Alex Rikkonen ( Jõhvi Vene Põhikool )
Martin Kosmák ( Gymnázium a SOŠ Moravské Budějovice )
Ivan Dukatš ( Narva Keeltelütseum )
Helleri Hirv ( Kääpa Kool )
Grade Level:Secondary School (grades 9-12, ages 14-18)
GLOBE Educator(s):Johanna Raudsepp
Contributors:Supervisors: Peter Falcon, Uku Andreas Reigo
Laura Altin
Report Type(s):International Virtual Science Symposium Report
Protocols:Air Temperature, Barometric Pressure, Clouds, Relative Humidity, Surface Temperature, Biometry (including Tree Height), Land Cover Classification
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Language(s):English
Date Submitted:03/09/2023
We explored a coastal site on Käsmu peninsula in the Gulf of Finland in Northern Estonia.
We were interested in the changes in the microclimate with location and time at the coastal
site. How the temperature and humidity change over time and in different locations. We had
five different sites, starting from the shore to the forest, the distance between sites only 50
metres.
And our hypotheses were:
● The temperature will increase a little and will start decreasing as the sun is setting.
● The humidity will change only by a few percent, so it will stay even.
● The temperature will decrease as we are moving away from the shore and more
inland.
● The humidity will also decrease as we are moving away from the water.
● The tree height will increase the further we go from the shore.
Out of the five hypotheses three were fully supported and two were partly supported. The
biggest surprise was in how much the temperature changed and how uneven it was. One of
the reasons for the mismatch could be because we did not consider how the coast is colder in
the summer than the inland, as is typical for areas with maritime climate.
In the future the research should be more thorough, we should bring more tools and the
methods to take measurements should be more clean and done more precisely. And it would
be interesting to take measurements over a longer period of time.