Sentences with phrase «at lower elevations»

People who [live at low elevation] are connected to people who are high.

The transmitter for certain channels could be located at a lower elevation on the broadcast tower, or even behind other broadcast towers.

It would still have six stories, but it would be built at a lower elevation, about 10 feet below the original design, he said.

Unless you are hiking at low elevation and have a lot of faith in the forecast, dress in layers.

This meant that the craft would have to fly at a lower elevation — much lower.

In such patients, the head of the bed should be kept at the lowest elevation the patient can tolerate.

Plus, you are at a lower elevation now (at about 9,000 feet) so the effects of the altitude are less here.

It is typically at a lower elevation or more distant from the poles than the tree line.

«Going into the study, we were sure that we would detect a functioning and viable microbial ecosystem in the permafrost soils of University Valley as we and others have done in Arctic and Antarctic permafrost, including in other sites at lower elevations in Antarctica.

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

A decade after a stand - replacement forest fire on the Metolius watershed in Central Oregon, almost no trees have begun to regenerate on one of the dry sites at lower elevation.

24 21.2 World Climates Highland Climates In general, highland climates are cooler and wetter than nearby areas at lower elevations.

Herbivore activity was greater at lower elevations and higher temperatures and at high concentrations of foliar P, with up to 20 % of foliar productivity diverted to herbivores over the year.

We will hike 1 — 2 hours per day (1 — 2 miles) on uneven trails over moderate grades at low elevations in hot and humid conditions.

Early in the melt season (April - June 15), ablation is dominated by melt at the lower elevation range (> 1500m) in alpine basins (Pelto, 1996; Fountain and Tangborn, 1985).

Most of the pines at lower elevations here are ponderosa.

There are scrub oak and Jeffrey pine at the lower elevations, the latter smelling sweet and faintly of vanilla as they heat up in the bright sunlight.

The elevation of marsh species is important; those species at lower elevations experience longer and more frequent tidal floods and therefore have the opportunity for more sediment deposition to occur.

A massive ice sheet almost completely covers Greenland, and as summertime temperatures climb and sunlight hours lengthen, parts of the ice sheet surface usually melt, especially at lower elevations near the coast.

-- In larger rivers at lower elevations, warming trends may result in more frequent fishing season closures and disease outbreaks, such as the mountain whitefish (Prosopium williamsoni) kill on the Yellowstone River in the fall of 2016 (MFWP 2016, Wright 2016).

This parasite is a problem in the Americas, the affected region stretching from the Gulf Coast and Eastern seaboard of North America, especially at low elevations, into Quebec and Ontario.

Ablation peaks in May at low elevation Snotel sites, in June at high elevation Snotel sites, and in August on glaciers.

That's almost 0.6 C warmer at the lower elevation in the same city and the same weather at the same time, a similar shift to the Wellington St increase in the chart above.

Greenland is losing mass from more extensive runoff at lower elevations.

Available measurements mostly come from easily accessible glaciers at lower elevations (1); (also see Figure 8 and 9).

Robusta is able to grow at lower elevations and hotter temperatures than arabica, and is typically grown in sun.

But infants born later were significantly smaller than babies born at lower elevations.

That's because the dwarf planet's sparse atmosphere is thickest at lowest elevation, making condensation of the ices most effective there.

High - altitude puzzles That's crucial because glaciers at the highest altitudes, where temperatures are more likely to stay below freezing, are behaving differently than their counterparts at lower elevations.

But there were also more than 20 communities outside the park's boundaries that spent most of the year cultivating crops and raising livestock at lower elevations.

The guys at the lower elevations are not in trouble from the fungus, but they're really susceptible to changes in climate.»

They used some records from ponderosa pine and Douglas fir trees, which thrive at lower elevations and in years with heavy snowfall.

In the Indus, they found, the meltwater contribution is 151 percent compared to the total runoff generated at low elevations.

The melt is unusual: normally about half of the ice sheet melts at the surface during summer, mostly at low elevations.

There are plenty of other similar soil and substrate environments at lower elevations where they could grow but the climate is unsuitable,» he says.

Small arrays at lower elevations have probed the sky since the 1980s, but atmospheric moisture made observations difficult at wavelengths shorter than 3 millimetres.

The great ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica, which rise to over 13,000 feet above sea level, accumulate ice over most of their surfaces and melt only at their lower elevations near the edges.

«Most glaciers have thinned several hundred feet at low elevations in the last 40 years, and about 60 feet at higher elevations,» team member Keith Echelmeyer reports.

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

Ruiz, who contributed to the report, noted that an analysis of weather records at one páramo research station showed increases in minimum temperatures were almost twice that of lower elevations, while increases in maximum temperatures jumped to nearly three times the average at lower elevations.

Increased radiation and warmer temperatures cause plants normally found at lower elevations to move upslope.

These plants tended to grow at sites experiencing less snowfall — such as plots at lower elevations, or along ridges and slopes instead of coves and valleys, where snow tends to accumulate.

Like many mountain ecosystems, Niwot Ridge serves as an important «water tower,» regulating downhill water flow as snowmelt replenishes lakes and streams at lower elevations.

Potential energies at lower elevations than infinity (which, of course, is everything) are always negative numbers.

The laser analysis yielded a composition very close to that of Mars soil and unlike the lakebed sedimentary compositions observed at lower elevations and earlier in the mission.

First Klaus regales me with tales of a recent development drive of the 2017 NSX in the Alps, where the foremost challenge on the narrow mountain passes proved to be pavement slick with cow manure, as the farmers were busy bringing their cattle to new pastures at lower elevations before the onset of winter.