Sentences with phrase «altitude environments»

Global - scale distribution of cold and high altitude environments (polar, glacial areas, periglacial areas, high mountains in non-polar places) and hot arid environments (hot deserts and semi-arid areas)

«It was in Ladakh, in the far north of India, doing some work with scientists in high altitude environments.

Some mitochondrial SNPs have been associated with various characteristics, such as adaptation to cold weather or high altitude environments and have been implicated in susceptibility to diabetes and various inflammatory diseases.

The new study confirms that so - called «starving glaciers» in dry, high - altitude environments are indeed controlled by precipitation.

«One major adaptation is a positive selection for genes involved in hypoxia response and skeletal development, similar to those expressed in other organisms in high - altitude environments such as Tibet and the Andes,» Dr Subramanian said.

I live in a high altitude environment and put the oven on 335 Fah.

The close agreement of land - based measurements also help confirm the accuracy of those made from space, a point that will be important for better global understanding of water stored in a high - altitude environment.

Titicaca is the highest large lake in the world with many animals and plants adapted to the high altitude environment.

Not exact matches

The high - altitude Proteus, for example, is being developed under a contract with NASA, which plans to use it to study the environment.

Will the environment be damaged by hundreds of these aircraft flying at high altitudes and throwing their exhausts into the stratosphere?

Its high altitude and lush environment is what differentiates Hakushu from other distilleries.

Denisovan aDNA also shows they interbred with the ancestors of some living humans, contributing genes beneficial in cold environments and at high altitudes.

The greater homogeneity of the Italians could be ascribed to their ancient common origin, but also to a greater mobility and gene exchange between the populations of the seven valleys considered (the Adige, Fersina, Fiemme, Giudicarie, Non, Primiero and Sole valleys), with this mobility favored by a less hostile mountain environment (i.e. lower altitudes and geographical proximity) compared to the Ladin populations of the Dolomites.

Altitude is proxy for latitude in these environments, so you have this more or less continuous band of this kind of habitat that just stretches the entire length of the continent.

«Our new approach is poised to reveal the evolutionary adaptations for countless other environments, from the sea, high altitudes, the desert, or even underground.»

Researchers taking measurements in an urban environment using standard electric power might be expected to get hundreds or even thousands of data measurements; at high altitude on a volcano, says Mather, tens or less may be considered reasonable.

More research will need to be done comparing genomes from closely related species inhabiting high altitudes and lowland environments to further explore the genetic foundation of these adaptations.

«These are species living at high altitudes in the mountains of southern Ethiopia, many are endemic to the area,» says Maria Johansson, researcher at the Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Science sat Stockholm University.

The data came from a study called Caudwell Xtreme Everest, which took place in 2007 and was coordinated by the UCL Centre for Altitude, Space and Extreme environment medicine (CASE Medicine).

Because the environment that matters to Apodanthaceae is the host, not anything outside it, these plants occur from the lowlands to 2500 m altitude and from deserts to Amazonian forest.

Our results demonstrate that despite cold temperatures and low - oxygen conditions, hunter - gatherers colonized extreme high - altitude Andean environments in the Terminal Pleistocene, within about 2 ky of the initial entry of humans to South America.»

To further support integrated space situational awareness, Reeves also led a team that developed the Dynamic Radiation Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM) to predict hazards from the natural space environment or high - altitude nuclear Environment Assimilation Model (DREAM) to predict hazards from the natural space environment or high - altitude nuclear environment or high - altitude nuclear explosions.

«We'll be looking carefully for more «clouds» as we continue to characterize the radiation environment at aviation altitudes,» says Tobiska.

To detect faint radio waves coming from 10 billion light years away in an extremely harsh environment at an altitude of 5000 meters, new breakthrough technologies are incorporated into ALMA by integrating high - efficiency receivers, high - speed computer, and high - precision antennas allowing high accuracy tracking.

So the easiest way for a novice to learn about their light environment is you know, to download this app and begin to play with it and see how much Vitamin D you can make at your specific location, your altitude.

Your body will naturally shed water when you exercise, you're in hot environments, or you're at altitude.

Blueberries grow in rough terrain like sandy soils, dry environments and high altitudes.

But I didn't have a lot of the extras like moisturizers, treatments, oils, masks, etc. and between the altitude and massive climate fluctuation and new environment my skin suffered.

Chrysler also is sending about 200 Visions and Intrepids to Denver to evaluate the cars in a high - altitude driving environment.

The environment offers guests great hiking, mountain biking, birding and scuba diving in a high altitude river, near the Lodge.

Situated at a lower altitude than nearby Cusco, the hotel provides the perfect environment in which to acclimatize, and is an ideal base to explore the Sacred Valley and Machu Picchu.

The game takes place across a few medium sized open world areas, each with a somewhat distinct environment type, from a larger village nested in high altitude mountainous terrain to a more temperate climate with small settlements.

The player controls a space craft from a third - person perspective, adjusting the altitude while automatically moving through pseudo-3D environments.

Surface variables such as T (2m) are strongly affected by their environment, which may be represented differently in different weather models (e.g. different spatial resolution implies different altitudes) and therefore is a reason for differences between reanalyses.

So I would try to avoid buying property located between 3 kilometers and 25 kilometers in altitude in a dry environment:)

CO2 doesn't give» greenhouse effect» — normal / honest greenhouse has SOLID plastic or glass roof — on the other hand CO2 is only 270 - 500ppm = CO2 would be as fishnet as roof, or a postage stamp as roof # 2: normal / honest greenhouse has solidly attached roof, on the other hand, when CO2 warms up - > instantly goes high up to higher altitude, where is colder and cooling much more efficient / after all CO2 is 2/3 made from oxygen = lying that CO2 is a greenhouse gas is destructive for the society and environment.

The high altitude redwoods like fog as well, but their environment in the high mountains resulted in a different type of growth response than the coastal redwoods.

The two climbers, Matt Moniz and Willie Benegas, are on Everest to recreate a NASA study exploring how high altitude and stressful environments can impact genetics by taking gene samples on the mountain and comparing them to their twins at sea level.

Contrails are produced by hot aircraft engine exhaust mixing with the cold air that is typical at cruise altitudes several miles above Earth's surface, and are composed primarily of water in the form of ice crystals... Researchers are most interested in persistent contrails because they create long - lasting, and sometimes extensive, clouds that would not normally form in the atmosphere, and are believed to be a factor in influencing Earth's environment.

The GPS module is joined by an environment module that contains sensors for temperature, air pressure, humidity, and altitude.

It has a working environment temperature is -15 ℃ to 55 ℃, Non-working environment temperature is 40 ℃ to 70 ℃, Relative humidity is 95 % and operational altitude up to 5,000 meters.

For the adventurous, rather than those just on the morning commute, the upper right TOOL button brings up information such as compass direction, air pressure and altitude, sunrise and sunset times, tide graphs, and activity graphs - providing real - time information about changes in the natural environment and activity levels.