MICROCLIMATOLOGY

Author: FERNANDEZ CORTES ANGEL.
Year: 2003.
University: ALMERÍA [www.ual.es].
Place of defense: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXPERIMENTALES.
Place of preparation: FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS EXPERIMENTALES. UNIVERSIDAD DE ALMERIA.

Summary: The conservation and protection of caves requires appropriate management tools and basic knowledge in a comprehensive environmental parameters of karst. The primary management tool karst is the definition and delimitation of areas of protection and, in the case of cavities tourism, the estimated carrying capacity of vistitas. This dissertation addresses the most important methodological aspects applied to the control microclimático of cavities, especially those open to tourism or with a strong potential for this. Using a cantdad huge environmental data from different cavities southeast peninsula, has required the use of various statistical techniques with the aim of simplifying and redeveloping this environmental information. The possibility of incorporating the results of environmental control in cavities within an integrated management model, which contemplates further socioeconomic aspects, is the main interest of the research work for managers of such georrecursos. The analysis microclimático in each of the cavities studied dealt with differently on the type of data recorded in each of them. In cavities as the Cave of the windows espaciotemporal characterized the behavior of the basic parameters of its microclimate, as the temperature and the content of CO2 in the air in those rooms that are anticipated to be visited segújn ideas conebidads in draft Empowerment tourism. This information on the status of the zero cavity is completed with the analysis of the processes of infiltration and to the study of the phenomena of exchange of air masses with the outside world. In karst, Sorbas, design and installation of an intelligent system of environmental control in one of the cavities potentially tourist System (covadura), allows to assemble a comprehensive database that time, along with information microclimatic character space is the basic knowledge on the initial state of the cavity before any action Empowerment tourism. For its part, Geoda giant Pulpí represents an exceptional case and the different characteristics of a tourist cavity in connection estrícto. The uniqueness of this area in terms of its size and fragility, along with the imminent need to adopt measures aimed at their protection, has resulted in the development of a study microclimático comprehensive in order to assess their possible opening to tourism.