Sentences with phrase «across western»

«As a result, understanding the exact nature of how these different effects express themselves to form the north / south transition zone will be extremely important for freshwater resource management in major population centers across the Western U.S.,» says study co-author Mathew Winnick of Stanford University.
Cornell University researchers, working with NASA investigators, believe that hotter and direr conditions across the western United States are likely to result in severe droughts.
An extreme low - pressure system stalled and dumped massive amounts of rain across western Europe at the end of May and early June, causing major flooding in France and Germany.
These same people, on the other hand, would dismiss the 2003 heatwave across western Europe (with well - publicised increases in the numbers of elderly people dying in France) as extreme weather caused by a blocked area of high pressure.
I assume they will pump Tar Sands oil over the Rockies, either directly across western Canada, or by routing south and then west toward US ports.
With regard to wildfires, see Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity: «Thus, although land - use history is an important factor for wildfire risks in specific forest types... the broad - scale increase in wildfire frequency across the western United States has been driven primarily by sensitivity of fire regimes to recent changes in climate over a relatively large area.»
At the 16 terrestrial sites where quantitative estimates have been obtained, local HTM temperatures (primarily summer estimates) were on average 1.6 + / -.8 °C higher than present (approximate average of the 20th century), but the warming was time - transgressive across the western Arctic.
Record warmth was present across the western and central Pacific Ocean, the northern and western Indian Ocean, and was scattered across eastern Asia, southern North America, southern South America, eastern Africa, and the ocean surrounding the Iberian Peninsula.
The bush fire season across the western USA and Australia this year alone will negate your efforts to reduce carbon in our world for the next two to three years.
Outbreaks of the mountain pine beetle have been seen across western North America, with the beetle infestations destroying wide areas of the pine forest.
Ridging / positive geopotential height anomalies are predicted to strengthen next week across Scandinaviahelping to persisttroughing / negative geopotential height anomalies downstream across Western Asia and to the south across Southern Europe (Figure 2).
Predicted persistent troughing / negative geopotential height anomalies anchored across Western Siberia will favor ridging / positive geopotential height anomalies both upstream over Northern Europe and downstream over East Asia (Figure 5b).
Troughing / negative geopotential height anomalies remain entrenched across Western Siberia (Figure 2) as has been the case for much of the spring.
If you are to believe the global weather and climate models one circulation feature that seems to be locked in is a heat ridge across western North America (see for example the NMME forecast).
This stable circulation across western Eurasia will persist the temperature pattern of normal to above normal temperatures across Northern Europe and normal to below normal temperatures across Southern Europe, Western Asia and much of Siberia (Figure 3).
Once completed, it will be one of the world's largest wind projects, satisfying demand for renewable energy across the western United States.
In fact, in the last few decades, the number of large fires are on the rise across the Western United States and the length of the fire season continues to expand.
In 2003, a record summer heat wave left 35,000 — mainly elderly people — dead across Western Europe.
The increasing role of warming on large - scale snowpack variability and trends foreshadows fundamental impacts on streamflow and water supplies across the western United States.
Here's what NASA monitors on Earth with its fleet of satellites: They monitor wildfires as they blaze across the western United States — and increasingly the southeastern United States.
The average number of large wildfires burning across the Western U.S. each year has tripled from the 1970s to the 2010s.
Kairo who apparently has led study expeditions all across the western Indian Ocean on mangroves and is a member of the Blue Carbon Working Group and Africa Mangroves Network says that it is important that mangroves are protected.
Though Washington state officials are considering the effects of climate - change - causing emissions stemming from shipping the coal across the western United States, there are no legal requirements to consider the carbon pollution from burning the coal half a world away.
Were it not for the East Anglian emails, the big Copenhagen confab of 2009 might have gotten away with plans to impose a global climate regime across the western world.
Clements adds, «Developing wholesale energy markets also provides an opportunity for competition in the power industry that has not existed previously across the Western Interconnection.»
Also published in Nature Climate Change, a UC Berkeley team shows how BECCS technology could help enable the transition to carbon negative power across western North America: «We show that BECCS, combined with aggressive renewable deployment and fossil - fuel emission reductions, can enable a carbon - negative power system in western North America by 2050 with up to 145 % emissions reduction from 1990 levels.»
Above: Biomass supply curve in Western US from Nature Climate Change «Biomass enables the transition to a carbon - negative power system across western North America»
In the United States, cloud - seeding has been used for drought relief, snowfall, and rainfall across the western portion of the country.
We addressed these questions by compiling data from 1,680 permanent sample plots (PSPs) that are located in undisturbed natural forests across western Canada (Fig. 1).
Enel Green Power is collaborating with mini-grid technology solutions provider and developer Powerhive to develop and operate mini-grids in 100 villages spread across Western Kenya.
In the article, Sara, a doctor in Yakima, discusses her own experiences treating patients who are suffering due to the smoke in the air from wildfires burning across western North America.
The findings are important for scientists and coastal managers looking to predict future wave heights and take measures to protect coastal communities across Western Europe.
«Ohhh I spent all my tin in a shanty drinkin» gin across the western plains I must roam'til i find a home in my little darlin's arms across the western plain I must wander
Wildfires are also destroying thousands of homes across the Western US and forcing people to abandon their homes as drought conditions have developed for five years.
«Consequently, tropical cyclone activity across the western Caribbean may remain essentially stable over the current century, which has important implications for water availability in this region.
Lefties and righties across Western economies have played these roles consistently for a generation.
Near - to cooler - than - average conditions were present across the western half of Canada, the eastern half of the contiguous U.S., Europe, western Russia, the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, as well as southeastern Pacific Ocean, and across the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
But the damage caused to coastal communities there was replicated — and in some cases exceeded — across western France,» Professor Masselink says.
The Arctic Dipole (AD) climate pattern, which advects heat and moisture across the western Arctic from the south, is present.
Below is an approximate 100 year comparison of average annual mean minimum and maximum temperatures at 32 different locations across Western Australia, including weather in the capital city of Perth.
As the mercury has inched upward across western North America over the last 40 years, many plant species have moved downhill, toward — not away from — warmer climates, according to the results of a new study.
The boards and executive staffs of a number of learned societies across the Western world have embraced this cult against the wishes of the majority of their members...
The study finds that the high wind and solar scenarios (33 % of electric generation) reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 29 % to 34 % across the Western Interconnection, which ranges from the western tip of Texas to California and up into the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta.
Meanwhile a multi-national corporation like Enbridge, which wants to export unprocessed bitumen across Western Canada and the Pacific Ocean, is not.
These glacier and lacustrine data indicate a period of several decades to century length when climate conditions (cool summers, wet winters or both) favoured glacier nourishment and advance across western Canada.
The ongoing Arctic outbreak across the western United States is still on track to allow for exceptionally low snow levels in California later Friday into Saturday across all of Northern California.
OKLAHOMA CITY — Lawmakers faced off Wednesday as they narrowly voted to curtail a controversial and costly wind credit touted for spurring wind development and economic growth across western Oklahoma.
Working with our partners across the Western Hemisphere, we have defined more than 50 BirdScapes that take into account a combination of factors, including distribution and abundance of target species, land cover data, socioeconomic conditions, and more, to ensure that strategic conservation investment provides long - term benefits to the species that need it most.
However, abnormally dry conditions (D0) expanded eastward in Kansas and Nebraska, and also across western Colorado and into southern Wyoming.
Below average temperatures extended across western North America, most of the North Atlantic and Europe, and central Russia.
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