Sentences with phrase «american southwest»

Originally, Varney Speed Lines operated as an airmail and passenger service in the American southwest — Texas, New Mexico and Colorado.

Did you know that a «cacomistle» is a «raccoon - like animal of the American southwest» (though on checking this, I think it's a caconym for a ringtail, which is something else).

In 2009, Solar Millennium created Solar Trust of America as a joint venture with German industrial giant Ferrostaal to build solar thermal power project in the American Southwest.

This means that regions including the North American Southwest and the Mediterranean are projected to become drier.

While you're off exploring the American southwest, your solar home energy system keeps cranking out power.

If these models are correct, the levels of aridity of the recent multiyear drought, or the Dust Bowl and 1950s droughts, will, within the coming years to decades, become the new climatology of the American Southwest.

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Did you know that living in New Mexico and the American Southwest has special ecological considerations?

If we don't act, meanwhile, the big costs would probably come late this century (although some things, like the transformation of the American Southwest into a dust bowl, might come much sooner).

I decided to seek out the renegades of this codebreakers utopia, so I organized a family road trip through the American Southwest in hopes of finding out what these revolutionary builders could teach us about smarter shelters.»

One if four Americans evidently don't live in flood zones or the American southwest.

The American Southwest civilization actually ended.

Affected areas include the American Southwest, sub-Saharan Africa, and others.

This peer - reviewed study produced the adjacent charts for the regional area of the American Southwest.

As global temperatures increase with increasing greenhouse gas emissions, scientists predict the American Southwest will see a corresponding rise in temperatures, by 4 - 10 °F, in the coming decades.

Drought conditions in the American Southwest could worsen in a warming climate.

California experienced its worst drought in recorded history between 2011 and 2016, and climate models unanimously project increased drought in the American Southwest, including a growing risk of «mega-droughts» that last more than two decades.

As temperatures have warmed, the prevalence and duration of drought has increased in the western U.S. and climate models unanimously project increased drought in the American Southwest.

Latin name: Parkinsonia florida A common tree species in the American Southwest, palo verde is a diffuse porous species that forms very indistinct tree rings.

«The big fires that are occurring in the American Southwest are extraordinary in terms of their severity, on time scales of thousands of years.

One study from climate experts at Los Alamos National Laboratories explored the climate impacts of the PDO and Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation on the American Southwest.

Similar projections exist for Washington, the American Southwest, much of India and many other spots.

Schmidt noted that some climate models «suggest very strongly» that the American Southwest will dry in a warming world.

As global temperatures rise on average in the coming decades — as carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere increase with the continued use of fossil fuels — so regions such as the American southwest will experience greater extremes of heat and longer periods of drought.

In North America, drought remains mainly entrenched in the American Southwest and intensified in the Southern Plains.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

The latter would explain the lack of coherence in terms of variability between CESM - derived winter precipitation ensemble members and NADA - derived hydroclimatic conditions across the American Southwest.

Our comparison of tree ring - based drought analysis and records from the tropical Pacific Ocean suggests that changing variability in El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) explains much of the contrasting variances between the MCA and LIA conditions across the American Southwest.

Our study stresses the importance of those internal connections between tropical Pacific Ocean SSTs, the ENSO system, and the American Southwest hydroclimatic conditions and supports the contention that: (1) internal variability of the ocean - atmosphere system may not be accurately represented in current global climate models, and (2) enhanced variability as a result of these stochastic events should be further considered.

Overpeck may be finding the American Southwest a bit warmer now that a court has ruled his Climategate emails can come out of cold storage for public viewing:

The bold black line delineates the western portion of the American Southwest.

Global solar irradiance reconstruction [48 — 50] and ice - core based sulfate (SO4) influx in the Northern Hemisphere [51] from volcanic activity (a); mean annual temperature (MAT) reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere [52], North America [29], and the American Southwest * expressed as anomalies based on 1961 — 1990 temperature averages (b); changes in ENSO - related variability based on El Junco diatom record [41], oxygen isotopes records from Palmyra [42], and the unified ENSO proxy [UEP; 23](c); changes in PDSI variability for the American Southwest (d), and changes in winter precipitation variability as simulated by CESM model ensembles 2 to 5 [43].

To say that there is a greater chance that Arctic blasts are due to «global warming» than the drying of the American Southwest is both rather mind boggling and Orwellian.

Tree ring - derived Palmer Drought Severity Index (PDSI) time series have been widely used to estimate the spatial extent, duration, timing, and intensity of droughts from the past millennium across the American Southwest [31 — 37], but the amplitude and variance of hydroclimatic variability have received significantly less attention (but see [38]-RRB-.

The American Southwest has experienced a series of severe droughts interspersed with strong wet episodes over the past decades, prompting questions about future climate patterns and potential intensification of weather disruptions under warming conditions.

The multimodel mean summer (JJA) PDSI variability over the American Southwest for 1850 — 2100 (in red) is based on 17 CMIP5 model projections and using the RCP 8.5 emissions scenario (data from 24).

It's difficult to look out over miles of waste rock and tailings from a century of copper mining in the American Southwest and see anything but environmental destruction.

They found that the drought conditions of the future American west will be more severe than the hottest, most arid extended droughts of the 12th and 13th centuries, which are thought to have played a role in ending the once - flourishing Pueblo culture of the American Southwest.

Tree - devouring beetles, common in the American Southwest, are suddenly ravaging the evergreen forests of British Columbia.

Pretend there were no similar cataclysms in the past: no floods in China, India or Bangladesh; no droughts in Africa, the Yucatan or American Southwest; no fiery infernos in Australia or Peshtigo, Wisconsin.

In the American southwest, there are upper and lower treelines.

And that alone would be bad news for denizens of the planet's dry zones — in some places in North Africa, the American Southwest, India, and the Middle East, water shortages could well become an existential threat to civilization.

In the course of researching the 12.8 GigaWatt Utility Scale Photovoltaic Pipeline in the US Southwest for my «US PV Market Development in the American Southwest» EU PVSEC presentation, I was surprised how easy it was to identify GigaWatts (GW) of PV projects by First Solar, Inc. (NASDAQ: FSLR) as Approved Contracts in Development, Contract Pending Approval, or at earlier stages of development.

Anyone so inclined may view or download my «US PV Market Development in the American Southwest» EU PVSEC presentation from Google docs.

Cook, B.I., T.R. Ault, and J.E. Smerdon, 2015: Unprecedented 21st - century drought risk in the American Southwest and Central Plains.

The drying of the American Southwest continues, while Great Lakes water levels are above normal.

El Nino can cause warmer, drier summers, so tropical expansion might have contributed to the unusually dry conditions seen in the subtropical American Southwest and Mediterranean Europe in recent years.

and «the spectacular result of the collision that rocked the American Southwest with the energy of more than 20 million tons of TNT can be explored first - hand just outside the Visitor Center at Meteor Crater Arizona.»

The authors showed that a widespread, severe drought - and - beetle - induced die - off of pinyon pine in the American Southwest was exacerbated by higher average temperatures, relative to past episodes of drought.

Century scale climate forcing of fire regimes in the American Southwest