Sentences with phrase «air over deserts»

I'm guessing your argument is that the air over deserts can't moisten as it warms because there's no water there to evaporate.

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Viv was not one for heights and yet she came with Sarah Brown, Carolyn Westcott and me in a hot - air balloon ride over the Arizona desert; more bravery.

In the same process that occurs over Earth's deserts, the rising cells form spinning columns while cool air descends through the middle.

The dry desert air of northwest China has exquisitely preserved over 100 mummies, ranging in age from 4,000 to 2,000 years old.

For the first time, these devices, known as ADS - B transponders, will enable air traffic controllers to locate aircraft that are far out over oceans, remote deserts or the poles where there is no radar coverage.

While the toxins are likely to be most abundant in the air around lakes, they exist all over the planet, even in deserts.

And Radhika was speechless after a hot - air balloon ride over the Omani desert at sunrise, saying in a text message, «It is really hard to describe my feelings at this very moment because there is so much 2 say and I don't know where 2 start and because of all the excitement.»

Needless to say, the dry desert air is optimal for long - distance viewing, and as we reached peak altitude, the entire Greater Phoenix Metropolitan Area came into full view, and a quiet serenity came over the entire basket, with the silence being broken only by the occasional whooosh of the flame - thrower and the beep of a camera.

See the vast and spectacular Australian outback from the air, fly over desert areas, a remote cattle station and Lake Eyre the world's largest inland...

See the vast and spectacular Australian outback from the air, fly over desert areas, a remote cattle station and Lake Eyre the world's largest inland lake.

Low pressure, caused by warming air over inland deserts, draws moisture inland.

More subdued couples can heat things up in a hot - air balloon floating over the 1,000 - foot - high sand dunes — the largest in the world — of Namibia's Sossusvlei desert.

A Catalina eddy is rarely prolonged: as the heat over the deserts causes air to rise, the resulting pressure gradient and increase in the normal onshore winds causes the vortex to dissipate.

Head out to the desert for some dune - bashing or a safari in a 4x4, or float over the dunes in a hot - air balloon.

We stopped to go ATV riding in a massive crater, did a hot air balloon ride over the desert and slept in a Bedouin Camp in the middle of the desert.

Experience the diversity of Australia from the air, fly over the lush green wineries of the Hunter Valley to the rugged desert scenery of the heart of the Australian Outback in Alice Springs.

Our adventure Launch Pad offers guided half - day river rafting trips on the lower Orange River, as well as hot air balloon flights over the Kalahari Desert.

Chile has a wealth of adventure tourism for visitors to uncover from skiing down a volcano in Pucón, scuba - diving off Easter Island and ice - field walking in Patagonia, to taking a hot air balloon flight over the Atacama Desert and white water rafting on the Futaleufu River.

To get a different perspective, opt for a hot air balloon trip over the desert.

When they blow over the island this way, they cross over the Sahara Desert first, where they pick up dust and sand particles in the air.

Or you could try a camel ride or even a hot air balloon ride over the desert.

Take to the skies again with Air Assault 2, the intense sequel to the action hit that pits you against a determined enemy over the desert, the sea, and a vast industrial complex.

I would add that this resort was so unbelievably green (as in grass - covered, not eco-friendly) that we could pick it out from the air as we left, flying over the moonscape of the desert around Vegas.

If the warmer air has less moisture, as over a desert, then there is less snow, right?

Owing to the enhanced descent of air over the eastern parts of the oceans, landmasses adjacent to these areas (typically the western sides of continents) tend to be deserts, such as those found in northwestern and southwestern Africa and along western coastal Mexico.

But the dry air column holds a lot less energy so when the sun goes down and the surface is no longer heating it through conduction and radiation the column cools rapidly hence the great diurnal temperature range of the desert and the almost total lack of diurnal temperature change over the ocean.

El Azizia took the record for highest temperature ever recorded on Sept. 13, 1922, when a thermometer on a weather station hit a whopping 136 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius), thanks to southerly winds blowing in hot air from over the Sahara Desert.

Meanwhile, other relevant phenomena currently out there in the atmosphere — a lot of dry air coming off the Sahara Desert, for instance, and a general sinking of air over the tropical Atlantic — don't seem as if they, alone, can account for the lack of activity.

Fercrisakes Pekka thermal convection can be observed with the naked eye in deserts and even over tarmac where the surface becomes hugely warmer than the air in contact with it.

Wednesday morning, in the Nevada desert, one of the companies working to develop a hyperloop will deliver a proof of concept — the first full - scale demonstration of the transportation technology that will be able to travel at speeds over 300 mph in an open - air environment, potentially changing the future of transit along the way.