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One type of soil and air temperature recorder. The long bulb in the foreground is inserted horizontally in the sod or duff at the depth desired. The special coil on the left side of the instrument responds to air temperature. A surface duff temperature of 148? has been recorded at Priest River with this instrument. On that day, the maximum thermometer, shown on the next page, registered an absolute maximum of 158?F. The maximum temperature of the air was 105? that day.
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Title:
One type of soil and air temperature recorder
Photographer:
Swan, Kenneth D. (Kenneth Dupee), 1887-1970
Date Created (ISO Standard):
1935
Description:
One type of soil and air temperature recorder. The long bulb in the foreground is inserted horizontally in the sod or duff at the depth desired. The special coil on the left side of the instrument responds to air temperature. A surface duff temperature of 148? has been recorded at Priest River with this instrument. On that day, the maximum thermometer, shown on the next page, registered an absolute maximum of 158?F. The maximum temperature of the air was 105? that day.
Location:
Bonner County, Idaho
Idaho County:
Bonner County
Features:
Priest River Experimental Forest Office
Latitude:
48.35083333
Longitude:
-116.8344444
Moscow Number:
3038
Source:
The sources for the photos in this collection were as follows: Priest River Experimental Forest, Moscow Foresty Sciences Lab, USDA-Forest Service Region 1 archive, University of Montana Library Gisborne Collection, and Ms. Susan Marsh
Source Identifier:
FireAlbum24
Type:
Image;StillImage
Format:
image/jpeg

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Citation:
"One type of soil and air temperature recorder", Experimental Forest and Savenac Nursery Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/expforest/items/expforsav353.html
Rights
Rights:
Material produced by the United States Forest Service and is in Public Domain. For more information, please contact University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives Department at libspec@uidaho.edu.
Standardized Rights:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
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