Sentences with phrase «hemisphere summer at»

This downwelling has a tendency to extend into the troposphere, limiting convection and rainfall during Northern Hemisphere summer at these latitudes, producing drier conditions.

MacTiernan said there was considerable evidence behind the claim that current practices of transporting sheep to the Middle East during the northern hemisphere summer at stocking densities of 0.38 square metres per sheep «would end up with sheep suffering an unacceptable level of pain and distress».

Not exact matches

The general, but clever theme of this classic Antonio Carlos Jobim song seems to simply be chromatic descent, as in the falling rains that are typical at the end of the Brazilian summer (March in the southern hemisphere).

Without the relief offered by these storms, the Northern Hemisphere will face longer bouts of intense summer heat, notes lead author Dim Coumou, a climate scientist at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany.

Floating at an altitude of around 50 miles, they are only seen well after sunset on summer nights above 50 degrees latitude in either hemisphere and have been increasing in frequency and brilliance with each passing year.

At the beginning of the Green Sahara, the Northern Hemisphere was closer to the sun during summer.

In an interesting and so far unexplained atmospheric riddle, the air at that altitude is actually colder in summer than in winter, causing these clouds to form only in the summer months in either hemisphere.

Using Earth - based telescopes to study sunlight reflected from the planet, the team found concentrations as high as 45 parts per billion near three geological features at a specific time: summer in the northern hemisphere of Mars in the Earth year 2003.

And on the opposite side of the planet, on March 3 sea ice around Antarctica hit its lowest extent ever recorded by satellites at the end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere, a surprising turn of events after decades of moderate sea ice expansion.

The new station recorded its first solar flare on Tuesday, and the network can now scan the Sun 24 hours a day — at least during the Northern Hemisphere's summer as there are still gaps in the coverage of the Southern Hemisphere.

At the same time, the buildup of greenhouse gases, coming mainly from developed countries in the northern hemisphere, has a very different effect on the Indian summer monsoons: it acts to make them stronger.

«It gives us hope to know that if we act quickly to reduce greenhouse gases, seasonal extremes might never enter a new normal state in the 21st Century at regional levels for the Southern Hemisphere summer and Northern Hemisphere winter,» Dr Lewis said.

It is also the lower left member of the «Summer Triangle» of first magnitude stars viewed from the northern hemisphere, formed with Vega (Alpha Lyrae) at the lower right, and Deneb (Alpha Cygni) at upper right.

The star is the lower right member (18:36:56.34 +38:47:01.29, ICRS 2000.0) of the «Summer Triangle» of first magnitude stars viewed from the northern hemisphere, formed with Altair (Alpha Aquilae) at the lower left, and Deneb (Alpha Cygni) at upper right.

NASA announced yesterday that it was extending the Cassini mission until 2017, when the planet would be at the peak of summer in its northern hemisphere.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will once again close its Halley station at the end of the coming Southern Hemisphere summer.

The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) will once again close its Halley station at the end of the coming Southern Hemisphere summer.

In a cute bit of cross promotion from New Zealand, the folks at Walt Disney in the southern hemisphere have used the emotions from this summer's Pixar Animation film Inside Out as a way to help one of Disney's other big summer blockbusters, The Avengers: Age of Ultron.

The summer is here (at least if you're in the northern hemisphere) and 2018 VW Touareg test prototypes are beginning to shed their disguise.

With long sunny days and warm temperatures (at least in this hemisphere), summer is a tempting time to stay outdoors as much as possible with your pet.

Here we are at the height of summer in the northern hemisphere, and as the hot days tick by, we're left to deal with the lack of new AAA + blockbuster titles hitting store shelves in large quantities as publishers save the big guns for the holiday shopping season.

Worked in a shared university setting at St. Olaf College, fired the largest wood fired kiln in the Northern Hemisphere at St. John's University in MN during a traditional Japanese studio apprenticeship, studied ceramics with Japanese masters at Kansai Gaidai in Osaka, Japan, apprenticed under a Maine bookbinder on a summer whim resulting in her now 14 year residency in the state, run a restoration and fine bookbinding business in 3 State Theater studios, half a residential South Portland duplex and finally the basement of her house, shared broom sized apartment studio nooks, rented various studio's equipment and cubbies and moved her own office in with her easel at RWS while she managed 3 apartment buildings on the East End.

(on the external forcing at another occasion) This summer / winter dichotomy in the N. Hemisphere's temperature variability is clearly shown in the CET's 350 year long instrumental record.

The National Climatic Data Center has released its review of worldwide sea surface temperatures for August and for the stretch from June through August and finds that both the month and the «summer» (as looked at from the Northern Hemisphere) were the warmest at least since 1880, when such records were first systematically compiled.

At the Fifth Geoengineering Summer School in Heidelberg earlier this month, the idea of a major volcanic eruption (especially one which disproportionately affected the northern hemisphere) was discussed as a possible «climate emergency».

For the Southern Hemisphere, summer minimum has increased at about 9,000 km ^ 2 / yr while the winter maximum has increased at about 14,000 km ^ 2 / yr.

This (Northern Hemisphere) summer I have a job at the Climate Change Research Centre at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, which has a close partnership with the UVic Climate Lab (where I worked last summer).

For the Northern Hemisphere, on the other hand, the decrease in winter maximum has been about 42,000 km ^ 2 / yr and the decrease in summer minimum has proceeded at about 81,000 km ^ 2 / yr — rates dramatically greater than in the south.

'' The dominant forcing factor appears to be precessional insolation; Northern Hemisphere summer insolation correlates to at least the early to middle Holocene climate trend.

If «scientists» can't learn from the atrocious record of «the models» at predicting the progression of winters (like 2009/2010 in Norther Europe) or summers (like 2010 in the entire Northern Hemisphere) that the models are inadequate, I proffer that the public at large, at least, is smart enough to see the writing on the wall.

When [CO2] is going down at is fastest rate (July - Aug, Northern hemisphere summer), planetary photosynthesis is at its maximum.

We now know that conditions at this time were probably warmer than today, but only in summer and only in the extratropics of the Northern Hemisphere.

It is seen that the zero phase difference line approaches high latitudes in winter and moves to middle, even tropical latitudes during summer at both hemispheres.

At high latitudes the upwelling brings air rich in the heavy molecular constituents N2 and O2 to high altitudes and the circulation carries this molecular - rich air to midlatitudes, especially in the summer hemisphere, where the mean meridional circulation is already equatorward.

Whereas for quiet conditions there is a general upwelling in the summer hemisphere flow toward the winter hemisphere at higher levels, and downwelling in the winter hemisphere, the storm - time heating adds a polar upwelling and equatorward flow in both hemispheres.

Most of the glacial earthquakes occur in July and August, at the height of the Northern Hemisphere's summer melt.

For example, additional evidence of a warming trend can be found in the dramatic decrease in the extent of Arctic sea ice at its summer minimum (which occurs in September), decrease in spring snow cover in the Northern Hemisphere, increases in the global average upper ocean (upper 700 m or 2300 feet) heat content (shown relative to the 1955 — 2006 average), and in sea - level rise.

At the summer solstice, the Northern Hemisphere receives the most energy (highest intensity) from the Sun due to the angle of sunlight and day length.

Arhennius correctly predicted approximately how much the temperature would go up, greater increase in winter than summer, greater increase at night, greater increase in the Northern Hemisphere (especially the Arctic) and greater increase over land than water.

Grudd's paper (available here, open access) deals solely with summer temperatures at Lake Tornetrask in Northern Sweden, and the paper states clearly that «although the climate of northern Fennoscandia seems to have been significantly warmer during medieval times as compared to the late - twentieth century, the published composite records of northern hemisphere climate (Moberg et al. 2005) do not show a conspicuously warm period around AD 1000.»

Total solar irradiance changes, though of small magnitude, do appear to affect sea surface temperatures (SSTs), most obviously at latitudes where cloud cover is small and irradiance is abundant, such as the Northern Hemisphere subtropics during summer.

Summers on the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard are now warmer than at any other time in the last 1,800 years, including during medieval times when parts of the northern hemisphere were as hot as, or hotter, than today, according to a new study in the journal Geology.

As this story describes, the South African law firm, Livingston Leandy implements a form of daylight savings, which enables staff to start work at 7 am and leave at 3:30 pm during December and January (summer vacation on the Southern Hemisphere).