Experimental design Conservation management of an upland heath nature reserve
Design an experiment that will determine what the ideal sheep grazing density is to maintain the heath land and stop scrub invasion.
Write a short report (500 words max) explaining the key features of the experiment and how it will be undertaken.
You can also use diagrams. Text within diagrams do not count towards the total, but text in diagram legends do count.
Because the report is short, you do not need to format it into sections.
Task
Write a short (250-500 word) explanation of how the weather observations in Figures 2, 3 and 4 relate to the passage of depression X over the UK (shown in Figure 1). You should consider:
1) Wind speed and direction
2) Temperatures
3) Clouds and precipitation
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Figure 1. Met Office Synoptic Charts for a) 00 on Monday 2nd November, and b) 1200 on Monday 2nd November 2020.
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Figure 2. Wind speed (values in circle) in miles per hour, and wind direction (arrows) measured at Met Office meteorological stations for A) 00 and B) 1200 on Monday 2nd November 2020. Note that the arrows on these charts point in the direction that the wind is flowing to, but that wind directions are named according to the direction that the wind is coming from (so an arrow pointing towards the northeast would be termed as coming from the southwest, or a southwesterly wind).
Figure 3. Weather observed at Met Office meteorological stations for A) 00 and B) 1200 on Monday 2nd November 2020. See this web link below for an explanation of the symbols: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/guides/what-does-this-forecast-mean
Figure 4. Temperature (in oC) measured at Met Office observing stations for A) 00 and B) 1200 on Monday 2nd November 2020.
