Sentences with phrase «areas at higher elevation»

For example, coastal areas or areas in the flood plain of a river are more likely to experience a natural disaster, whereas areas at higher elevation are at lower risk.

Not exact matches

A low - tide elevation is a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low tide but submerged at high tide.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level — elevations much higher than the known species of olingo.

Yosemite toads only come together for about two weeks once a year in late spring to breed in shallow water areas located at elevations of 6,500 feet or higher in the Sierra Nevada.

The Preserve Resort sits at the highest elevation in the area, so you're sure to have spectacular views of Wears Valley rising and falling below.

The risk in the remainder of the sub-continent is at high, however the mosquito that spreads Zika is not present above 2000 metres elevation so the risk is greatly reduced for travelers to those areas.

Phuket, fortunately, sits at a slightly higher elevation that other areas in Thailand so it wasn't as badly hit as other areas which consists of low build bungalows and sit slightly closer to sea level.

The elevation is some areas of Guatemala (like Antigua, Lake Atitlan, Chichicastenango and Xela) is very high and it can definitely affect your body if you're not used to being at that level.

Thus, some areas of the tropics should experience substantial increases in precipitation, which, at high elevations, will come in the form of snow.

Gridded values may differ from climate stations and biases may be present at high elevations or in areas with low station density (Eum et al., 2014).

The advance increases the glaciers area at low elevation where ablation is highest, returning the glacier to equilibrium.

The Greenland ice sheet accumulates snow in its northernmost area and in the central region at high elevations.

Larger metropolitan areas such as Quito, Ecuador, and Bogotá, Colombia, also derive a significant percentage of their drinking water from lakes located in páramos — tropical wetlands set at high elevation.

Anomalies for stations in areas of high latitudes and high elevations are typically some of the largest anomalies in the world because temperatures are warming at the greatest rates in those areas.

As a starting point, I think sat - temps are high enough in the atmosphere to eliminate or minimalize UHI «contamination», but IMO it's not impossible that UHI could produce plumes of localized warm areas above / downwind of large developed regions at sat - temp elevations, but I don't know for sure.

However, even if it's not required, it's typically a good idea to consider flood insurance unless your home is far from any dams or levees and at a higher elevation than most of the surrounding area.

The nearby Franklin Mountains place it at a relatively high elevation, and the El Paso area receives monsoon - like summer rains and thunderstorms.

The subtle whines and chirps of the tiny critters that inhabit the area were easily heard, and at higher elevations, gusts of wind added to the sense of altitude.

Try to route your evacuation through areas that are at a higher elevation or have multiple escape routes planned.