Sentences with phrase «atmosphere over desert»

The water contents of the atmosphere over desert and polar regions, subject to maximum warming, is low to very low.

Not exact matches

[TV Weather montage: «We are breathing dust that at one point originated over Africa... Dust particles are carried 15,000 feet into the atmosphere... Another dust cloud from Africa's Sahara Desert has made it all the way to Houston.»]

• Amazon cruise: Take an intimate river cruise • Atacama Desert, Chile: Hike the salt flats and volcanoes • Buenos Aires: Try a tango class • Easter Island: See the mysterious statues • Galápagos Islands: Spot Darwin's finches and other wildlife • Iguazú Falls, Brazil: Stay at Hotel das Cataratas by the thundering falls • Machu Picchu: Enter the citadel as the Incas did through Sun Gate • Mayan sites: Take an archaeologist - led tour • Mexico City: See Diego Rivera's murals at the Palacio Nacional • Oaxaca, Mexico: Enjoy Slow Food dishes at La Biznaga • Patagonia, Argentina: Admire the Perito Moreno Glacier • Rio de Janeiro: Go on a helicopter ride over the city • Salvador de Bahia, Brazil: Take in the festival atmosphere of Old Town

This deserted red sandstone city has been superbly preserved for over 400 years, giving the area a mystical atmosphere.

Thus measuring midst of villages, towns, grass fields or forests yield values which have no bearing with whatever can be measured in the rest of the atmosphere, above 1,000 m and far from sources, like over the oceans and in deserts.

This process prevents the land — atmosphere system from sustaining precipitation over the same region and thus acts against drought or the formation of desert.

Once again water vapor (H2O) does exactly the same thing; only moreso than carbon dioxide; and it is also much more abundant in the atmosphere; even over the most arid deserts.

Zhang et al. (1997) estimated that about 800 Tg yr — 1 of Asian dust emissions are injected into the atmosphere annually, about 30 % of which is re-deposited onto the deserts and 20 % is transported over regional scales, while the remaining approximately 50 % is subject to long - range transport to the Pacific Ocean and beyond.

Meanwhile, other relevant phenomena currently out there in the atmosphere — a lot of dry air coming off the Sahara Desert, for instance, and a general sinking of air over the tropical Atlantic — don't seem as if they, alone, can account for the lack of activity.

The CO2 wavelengths always look like the tropopause temperatures no matter if they are measured over the desert or the poles, which tells us we are seeing emissions from high in the atmosphere, not re-emitted near the surface.

Over deserts and the arctic or above the top of the atmosphere (TOA).