A Contribution to the Philosophy of Climatic Design Limits for Army Materiel: Extreme Hot-Desert Conditions

摘要

The 1-,5-, and 10-percent frequencies of high temperature were obtained for the severest month and for the severer four months for the period from 1948 to 1967 for the southwestern desert of the United States, and maps showing these frequencies are given. The present frequency temperatures were related to the summarized data and to elevation of the stations. Inferences were made, based upon summarized data and these relationships, about temperature environments in the other three major hot deserts of the world: the Sahara of northern Africa, the deserts of southwestern Asia, and the desert of interior Australia. Areas where very high temperatures occur with any degree of regularity are comparatively small and scattered. (Author)