Sentences with phrase «at some elevation below»

Presumably, if a ring is missing at the tree line, it will be present at some elevation below this.

Around the world, nearly half of the world's approximate 4,000 cities with populations of greater than 100,000 people sit on or near the coastline, at elevations below 220 feet, or near bodies of water that are vulnerable to sea level rise.

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

Death Valley National Park Explore 3 million acres of wilderness, including the Badwater Basin salt flats, the lowest elevation in North America at 282 feet below sea level.

5) Professional cuppers report that the higher Kona elevations produce a brighter cup, but in fact, over the years the prize - winning entries in the blind cupping at the annual Kona Coffee Cultural Festival include many farms below 1000 feet elevation.

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 train departs from Drei Annen Hohne station and takes approximately fifty minutes to climb through an ever - changing vista of alpine meadows and dense fir and pine forests eventually arriving at Brocken Station, which, at an elevation of 1,125 metres above sea level is just sixteen metres below the mountain's summit.

Many of the national parks are at an even higher elevation, resulting in even colder temperatures, often below 45 °F (7.2 °C).

For a closer look at the day to day hiking distances, elevations and highlights, click the link below to take a look at the Classic Inca Trail guided tour Itinerary.

At an elevation of 1500 feet above the sea, it's cooled by almost - constant hillside tradewinds, and its high locale provides wonderful views for miles into the distance, with Brewers Bay set like a beckoning blue sapphire below.

The two papers don't mention any velocity changes due to increased slope, but they do record that at elevations above 1500 - 2000 m, the ice has been growing in thickness by about 5 - 6 cm / yr, whereas below the 1500m level there's been a thinning of about -2 cm / yr.

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

We interpolate each elevation — population relationship to estimate county populations on affected land at sea levels of interest and to estimate the thresholds below which selected fractions of each city population (i) live.

It is only a half - hour drive from Stovepipe Wells to Furnace Creek along 190, and most of it is at elevations a little below sea level.

The results of routing are shown in Figure 12.8 - 1 and listed below: Table 12.8 - 1 Oroville Dam PMF with Dynamic Routing (1983) PMP: 28.9 inches Snowmelt: 4.5 inches Peak Inflow: 1,167,000 cfs (Occurs at hour 40) Eight day Inflow Volume: 5,217,300 acre - feet Initial Elevation: 855 feet Maximum Reservoir Elevation: 921.4 feet (Occurs at hour 58 - 59) Peak Outflow 798,000 cfs (Occurs at Hour 58 - 59)

At low elevations sites below 3000 feet, the decline is substantial note Diablo and Concrete in figure 8.

Temperature drops with elevation by less than 1 degree per 100 m. Accepting the temperature explanation would imply that trees at the tree - line * are * limited, while trees 150 m below the tree - line (that experience temperatures by only about 1 deg C higher than the treeline) are totally not.

However, the few rough water albedo studies for low solar angles — solar elevation angles below 20 degrees — that I've found all confirm open ocean (rough water) albedo increases dramatically to a maximum between 0.35 and 0.60 at 4 - 6 degrees.

Montane - The biogeographic zone made up of relatively moist, cool upland slopes below the sub-alpine zone that is characterized by the presence of mixed deciduous at lower and coniferous evergreen forests at higher elevations.

In total, 180 coastal municipalities in the conterminous U.S.A. with populations over 50,000 have an average of 36 % of their land area at or below 6 meters of elevation and connected to the sea.

Lower - altitude glaciers below about 17,700 feet (5400 meters) above sea level are melting twice as fast as those at higher elevations.