Sentences with phrase «arid lands of the north»
From the arid lands of the north to lush landscapes in the south.
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Climate News Network: El Niño, the mysterious meteorological phenomenon that periodically upsets global weather patterns, bringing catastrophic flooding to the arid lands of North and South America, and forest fires to South - east Asia, turns out to be more complicated than anyone had thought.
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Beginning with a pilot facility in the arid lands north of Port Augusta with support from the SA government, Sundrop secured a 10 - year contract with Coles supermarkets to supply 15,000 tonnes of truss tomatoes per year.
Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.
In fact, further north, Gobabeb is the location of a land - surface temperature validation site — chosen because of its featureless arid nature and lack of vegetation.
««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.
The Greyhound developed as a sight hunter in the arid and semi-arid lands of North Africa and the Middle East, and the Arabs selectively bred him for increased speed.
Unlike the mass of arid land to the north, Belize experiences tropical climates with both wet and dry season; hurricane season spans June to November.
It was first cited 140 years ago when a pioneer geologist and surveyor identified a divide running from north to south between land that received ample rainfall, and soils in the so - called rain - shadow of the Rockies that could be classed as arid.