Sentences with phrase «at an elevation where»

If the world temperature increases two degrees by 2050, it will be virtually impossible to grow cocoa plants at the elevations where current farms are located.

Today, most of the remaining native forest birds are endangered, and they survive only at elevations where colder - temperatures limit the spread of mosquitoes (4,500 feet or higher).

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Prior to HP Palm, she worked as a founding Senior Associate at Elevation Partners, a $ 1.8 billion media and entertainment private equity firm, where she fell in love with the consumer Internet and mobile space.

But where shall it be found, at least where begin, if not in the complete enfranchisement and elevation of women?»

The Blue Ridge Mountains where the bison graze are more than 3,000 feet above sea level, and Dr. King feels that helps the bison the same way it creates more red blood cells in athletes training at elevation.

Down in town, which is at a lower elevation than where our property is, the creeping phlox is starting to form mats of jewel tones.

LaRocca Vineyards is located at 2600 feet elevation on the lower southern slopes of Mount Lassen, where the soil is rich in minerals.

On the lee slope of Mauna Kea, where the grasslands burnished by the sun are interspersed with brush and clumps of mamani trees, public hunting grounds stretch from 6,000 feet elevation up over the volcanic rubble that caps Mauna Kea at 13,800 feet.

I guess the same at Austin Turn 1 where there's big elevation, but we'll see.»

Where a low - tide elevation is situated wholly or partly at a distance not exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, the low - water line on that elevation may be used as the baseline for measuring the breadth of the territorial sea.

Where a low - tide elevation is wholly situated at a distance exceeding the breadth of the territorial sea from the mainland or an island, it has no territorial sea of its own.

The region faced at least two reported fatalities in elevation - related collapses, in addition to a flood of complaints about shoddy work, including one home, Oddo said, where an unscrupulous contractor took off without bothering to build a staircase so that owners could access their home after it was raised.

Dr Asiama until his elevation was the assistant director at the Economics Department of the Bank of Ghana, where he coordinated the work of the Monetary Policy Committee and supported the work of the governors directly.

Dr. Asiama until his elevation was the Assistant Director at the Economics Department of the Bank of Ghana where he coordinated the work of the Monetary...

They scouted steep mountainsides where the tree species currently lives and sites at higher elevations where the tree is likely to expand.

If Titan's craters are being swallowed by soggy ground, then the ones we do see should appear more often at higher elevations, where the ground would be drier.

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

Some aircraft with lower temperature tolerances will far worse than others, and certain airports — those with shorter runways, in hotter parts of the world or at higher elevations, where the air is already thinner — will suffer more.

D. birchii was most common at intermediate elevations, with abundance declining at colder sites towards the summit, but also at warmer sites towards the bottom of mountains, where flies in cages thrived.

However, where they reside together, the Sichuan bush warbler prefers to live at lower elevations.

In western states where snowpack is critical, we found decreases in the percent of winter precipitation falling as snow at elevations between sea level and 5,000 feet.

Thus, the fire season in Montana typically extends from late June through October at lower elevations, with shorter seasons at higher elevations where snowpack can persist into July (Keane et al. forthcoming).

As we left the shrubby foothills, where one could break a sweat standing still at 9 a.m., the temperature dropped 20 degrees, shadows painted the pavement, and giant sequoia appeared — the titans of the Sierra Nevada.Telling details that help us appreciate the environment changes as you go up in elevation.

Possible increased growth and productivity concurrent with climate oscillations that increase water availability, particularly at higher elevations and where stand density is low; extreme high temperatures would have net negative impact, regardless of water availability

Transmission of the parasite occurs at lower elevations where temperatures are warmer and drops off at higher altitudes.

Glacier response, at least in part, is due to changes in the freezing level - the elevation where mean monthly temperatures are 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit).

The drive starts at about 8,000 feet elevation where it was perfectly 75 degrees with views of gorgeous fall foliage.

Even though it reached 82 degrees Fahrenheit while I was in Denver, it was a brisk 33 degrees at the top of Pikes Peak, where the elevation is 14,110 feet.

No, The Twilight Samurai seems an apologia for the romanticization of violence and, moreover, for the elevation of the cult of masculinity out of the mud of bestial muck — where it at least in some measure belongs — and into realms of ritualistic divinity.

We were able to put in some laps at Thunderhill Raceway Park in Willows, California, where the R - Design's chassis performed admirably on the 3.0 - mile track, which features several elevation changes and some tricky, off - camber corners.

Bushwick (where there are no bushes), Highland Park (at a lower elevation that you might expect), and Spring Creek (nope, no creeks here) are also popular places to live.

Since his house is located at an elevation of 7,000 feet, where weather and predators are a challenge, Craig's garage was the best choice for his cat colony indoor shelter, which allowed them to come and go as they please.

Fraser Island is also the only place in the world where tall subtropical rainforests are found growing on sand dunes at elevations of over 200 metres which makes driving past or walking across them pretty spectacular.

It is the only place in the world where tall rainforests are found growing on sand dunes at elevations of over 200 metres.

The Villa Colonial and the Villa Santa Catarina do not, but are located at a higher elevation where the climate is more temperate.

It is scenic here — Fraser is the only place in the world where tall rainforests grow on sand dunes at elevations of more than 200 metres.

Not only is it the largest sand island in the world — 123 kilometres (76 miles) long and 22 kilometres (14 miles) wide — but it's the only place on Earth where tall rainforests grow on sand dunes at elevations of more than 200 metres (656 feet).

Huge hills and valleys are obvious, but there's a lot of time where it's hard to accurately judge elevations, and so it's not particularly uncommon to charge forward, throw yourself on your belly, open fire and watch as your bullets hit dirt while a group of foes simply laugh at you from their elevated position before blasting your head off.

In 1968, he began teaching at Queens College, CUNY, where he was part of the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program designed to help students from underserved areas prepare for college.

He was an author of a 2011 paper containing the map at right, showing areas where surface erosion, compaction of soil or subsidence lowered levee elevations in ways that raise risks in such floods.

Do you know if this is in fact the case over the wide range in latitude where these anphibians exist and at the different elevations they exist?

At around 15 km elevation one is around the level where 1/2 atmosphere is above you and 1/2 is below you.

Thermal energy lifts water out of the ocean and puts it at higher elevations where it has potential energy which is turned into work as water flows through rivers moving sediments around and such.

The Upper Valley is expecting warm rain in the next few days and at lower elevations where the snow is gone our amphibian friends may be on the move.

Gregory's model, the subject of the first two links and referred to in the third, suggests that as ice is lost, the ice cap in central Greenland, high enough today to cause appreciable snowfall, would end up at lower elevations where the air is warmer.

The data used in the study included more than 455,000 independent estimates of changes in the land elevation of the vast ice sheets covering Antarctica, both in the western part of the continent, where ice is melting more rapidly, and in the east, where the ice is considered to be more stable, for the time being at least.

The effect is greatest at lower elevations (where snowfall is more marginal)(Jasper et al., 2004; Knowles and Cayan, 2004), and in many cases peak flow would occur at least a month earlier.

An additional consideration in posing this question (and one that I had in mind but did not properly articulate) is that at Quelccaya, where Thompson also reported both Holocene and 50000 year old moss at the margin of a receding glacier, Thompson reported that the present limit of live moss was about 400 - 500 meters lower than the elevation of the exposed moss.

This effect has been particularly pronounced at middle - elevation regions where wintertime temperatures are more «marginal» for frozen precipitation than at colder, higher elevations.

Now, being a curious bunny, Eli wanted to see where this was, and he had a map from «Trends in twentieth century tree growth at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, USA from Bunn, Graumlich and Urban to go on.