Sentences with phrase «eurasian continent»

The dust - induced thermal contrast changes between the Eurasian continent and the surrounding oceans are found to trigger or modulate a rapidly varying or unstable Asian winter monsoon circulation, with a feedback to reduce the dust emission from its sources (Zhang et al., 2002).

It was certainly the largest river system to have ever drained the Eurasian continent,» says Patton

Hot north pole: the cold polar air has shifted over to us on the eurasian continent.

■ Atmospheric - Mass Transfer anomalies (AT)-- characterizing direction of dominant wind patterns over the Eurasian continent.

The sea ice in the Siberian Arctic is peaking, its effect on the meridional temperature gradient strong, promoting increased zonal flow of large - scale winds, which advect warm air and moisture over the Eurasian continent from the Atlantic and disrupt vertical stratification near the surface and promote high cloudiness, both of which lead to increasing temperatures — greatest at low altitudes and high latitudes.

A qualitychecked database of snow - related parameters is being established covering the northern part of the Eurasian continent for further use by the scientific community.

Bringing together Italian, Chinese, French, and Belgian origins, we lived on four different continents and traveled extensively before deciding to embark on a one - year - long, over-land journey to eat our way across the Eurasian continent.

Also Cabo da Roca, the most western point of the Eurasian continent is only 35 kilometres away.

Kyrgyzstan, part of the former Soviet Union lies in the heart of the Eurasian continent and once straddled the Great Silk Road.

Li's research on MGK builds on work by his Washington University colleague Michael Frachetti, professor of anthropology, whose research suggests that herding communities living along these mountain ranges formed a massive exchange network that spanned much of the Eurasian continent.

The process revealed by the study looks a lot like the process that is building the Himalayas today, as the Eurasian continent is pushing atop the Indian subcontinent.

It was certainly the largest river system to have ever drained the Eurasian continent,» says Patton.

According to the study, dogs were domesticated not once but twice, on opposite ends of the Eurasian continent at least 15,000 years ago.

The remarkable specimen — which includes nine skeletal elements from one individual, including the thoracic vertebrae and the femoral bones — is being heralded as the «best preserved hesperornithiform material from Asia» and to be «the first report of the hesperorinthiforms from the eastern margin of the Eurasian Continent.»

By 12 000 years ago, modern humans occupied the whole of the Eurasian continent including the remotest regions of northeast Siberia.

FIFTY - million - year - old insects preserved in amber are helping to rewrite the story of India's almighty crash into the Eurasian continent, suggesting that for as long as a few million years before the collision, India was connected to Asia by archipelagos.

Like Civilisation, the model breaks the world into squares — or in this case the Eurasian continent — and characterises them according to the type of land present, how mountainous it was, and if it was farmed.

Some consider them one Eurasian continent, other parts of the even larger Afro - Eurasian continent.

What is most striking is that this occurred independently in five parts of the Eurasian continent at more or less the same time.

In its heyday, communism looked set to hang on for the long term, dominating a huge swath of the Eurasian continent and seeking to expand its tentacles elsewhere.

Despite the big controversy, these strikes» political advantages are small because of limited U.S. interests outside the Eurasian continent and the limited overseas terrorism threat to U.S. interests.

Not exact matches

Manica is not yet sure if Science will change the title of the paper, «Ancient Ethiopian genome reveals extensive Eurasian admixture throughout the African continent».

Then, about 9000 years ago farmers from the Near East arrived — and about 4500 years ago a wave of pastoralists from the Eurasian steppe swept across the continent too.

Manica says the Bantu expansion may well have helped carry the Eurasian genomes to the continent's furthest corners.

By comparing the ancient genome to DNA from modern Africans, the team have been able to show that not only do East African populations today have as much as 25 % Eurasian ancestry from this event, but that African populations in all corners of the continent — from the far West to the South — have at least 5 % of their genome traceable to the Eurasian migration.

«Genomes from this migration seeped right across the continent, way beyond East Africa, from the Yoruba on the western coast to the Mbuti in the heart of the Congo — who show as much as 7 % and 6 % of their genomes respectively to be West Eurasian,» said Marcos Gallego Llorente, first author of the study, also from Cambridge's Zoology Department.

A key article by Dr. Michael Frachetti and colleagues, published this month in Nature argues that nomadic movement patterns shaped the early trans - Eurasian trade networks that would eventually move goods, people, and information across the continent.

Deemed as one species spread across different continents, scientists confirm that the Eurasian Hen Harrier and the American Northern Harrier are in fact two distinct species.

Native to Europe, North Africa, and Asia, Eurasian watermilfoil is now found in every continent except Antarctica and Australia.

Most of the proposed mechanisms linking reduced sea ice and / or increased Eurasian snowcover to extreme winter weather across mid-latitude NH continents involve a pathway through the SPV6, 24,25,32,33,55,56,57.