Sentences with phrase «by altitude in»

Temperatures are reduced by altitude in the Sierra with warm days and chilly nights as well as frequent heavy rain in the afternoons.

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Hosted by NYSE Master a high - altitude trail through delicate tundra to visit an alpine lake and take in breathtaking views of the Continental Divide.
Steering is made possible by moving the balloons to different altitudes - where stratospheric winds travel in different directions.
Lotte Mart wants to inject more than W400 billion in emergency funding into its supermarket chain in China, which has been hit hard by an unofficial boycott over the stationing of a Terminal High - Altitude Area Defense battery in Korea (US$ 1 = W1, 128).
The technological challenge faced by Druker's team and Mafat (the Ministry of Defense R&D department) was like hitting a marble in the air with another marble, at high altitude and inconceivable speeds.
And yet how can this be: that our spiritual altitude is not controlled by the mountains and valleys in the material world?
By this word, in the New Testament as in the Old, the noblest altitudes and attributes of the human spirit and the saving influences of the divine spirit were expressed.
, followed by blessed silence as soon as we reach cruising altitude and my seatmate and I indulge in our respective books or music or sleep, followed by friendly chatter during the final descent («you going to make your connection?»
What all these Calabrian varieties have in common is that they thrive in this particular climate characterized by a certain altitude, ocean air, and lots of sunshine.
We were 2023 meters above sea level, or approximately 6,600 feet, in a rain shadow that is formed by the Sierra Gorda, creating a high altitude desert.
These cupcakes could also be affected by altitude changes if you live in a higher altitude area.
I live at 5000 ′ altitude: tested my candy thermometer (way off), didn't want to buy another so used my instant read one successfully, ADJUSTING for altitude in my case all temps had to reduce by 10 *.
We are in Denver Metro so high altitude... I increased the flour by 2 tbls, added an extra scant 1/4 cup water, & increased the oven temp by 5 degrees.
I can't say I belong to the group that live in fear of yeast but I deal with the vagaries of living at altitude and that's always an extra consideration that can make any baking questionable as evidenced by the jar of yeast I just pitched that had expired... I don't do it a lot!
If gardening in a high - altitude region with intense sunlight, shade the peppers by covering the plants with shade netting (available at garden centers or by mail - order).
Made from organically farmed, high altitude Espadin Agave, and distilled in Oaxaca, Mexico at the traditional strength of 90 proof, Sombra Mezcal was named the Best Agave Spirit in the World by F. Paul Pacult's Spirit Journal.
So far, the home ground GrainMaster WhisperMill flour has been the pick of the litter, followed fairly closely by Rocky Mountain Milling's flour, but the High Altitude flour has the advantage of being available in grocery stores here.
Playing at almost 10,000 feet above sea level they may try to exploit the lack of altitude practice in their Chilean opponents by maintaining possession and grinding them down.
You did your best in the scrimmages, battling the mile - high altitude, shooting from further away than you're used to, banging with the big girls by the basket, but the numbers game, and the talent game, and the size game, do in all but the very few.
The location has been used by the Club in the past, while Austria has been the pre-season destination of choice for many Premier League clubs in recent years because of the benefit of training at altitude.
But once you've added diapers and sippy cups to your packing list, you have more than just your whims to consider when selecting a destination... That beach might be surrounded by jungle that's filled with malaria - carrying mosquitos; reliving that moment in history may involve trekking through territory that's politically unstable, and that fabled spot may be so high it'll cause altitude sickness.
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On Earth, the brightest auroras (the high - altitude glows often called the northern and southern lights) are generated when electrons in outer space near Earth are accelerated by large electrical potentials, or voltages, along the lines in our planet's magnetic field and slam into gas molecules in the upper atmosphere above polar regions.
In a study supported by the Office of Biological and Environmental Research's Atmospheric System Research program, scientists used the Community Atmosphere Model version 4 to examine the relative importance of heating at different altitudes to the MJO.
The team, led by Alan Kogut of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, took measurements with a radio antenna named ARCADE that dangled from a high - altitude balloon over eastern Texas in July 2006.
Microbes like syringae may also exploit ice nucleation to parachute down in raindrops or snowflakes, ensuring they do not remain stuck at high altitudes when swept up by storms.
Visible from North Carolina to upstate New York, the eerie trails were created by five suborbital NASA rockets that soared to altitudes of 50 to 80 miles, where they released chemical tracers that reacted with oxygen in the thin upper atmosphere.
The lack of low - altitude radar coverage as a factor in tornado - warning lead times was not mentioned in «A Better Eye on the Storm,» by Jane Lubchenco and Jack Hayes.
This is important, as a molecule of ozone lost in this region has a far larger impact on climate than a molecule destroyed at higher altitudes by longer - lived gases.»
Spend 40 years by the shores of the Dead Sea, at the lowest elevations on the Earth's surface, and you'll age 48 microseconds less than someone living at sea level, and 750 microseconds less than the residents of La Rinconada in Peru, at an altitude of 5100 metres
A constellation of more than two dozen GPS satellites broadcasts precise timing signals by radio to electronic GPS receivers which allow them to accurately determine their location (longitude, latitude, and altitude) in real time.
The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.
A rocket built by a group of Danish space enthusiasts reached an altitude of 2 kilometres on its maiden flight last week from its base in the Baltic Sea.
Sonic booms have caused alarm and damage when they have been produced in isolated cases by supersonic military jets flying over thinly populated areas; to allow a new fleet of booming supersonic transports to pass over cities at low altitudes during operations near metropolitan airports is clearly impossible.»
At high altitudes, the body adapts to the thin air by generating additional red blood cells, which grab more oxygen from the air in the lungs.
In 2010 the team discovered a new kind of human, cousins to Neanderthals called Denisovans, by sequencing DNA from a 50,000 - year - old pinkie finger found in a high - altitude Siberian cave in DenisovIn 2010 the team discovered a new kind of human, cousins to Neanderthals called Denisovans, by sequencing DNA from a 50,000 - year - old pinkie finger found in a high - altitude Siberian cave in Denisovin a high - altitude Siberian cave in Denisovin Denisova.
A team of scientists find in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, at an altitude of 3,020 m., evidence of atmospheric pollution caused by lead and linked to metallurgical activities from 3,900 years ago (Early Bronze Age).
The theory of the giant collision, which is corroborated by these two independent studies, could explain why the northern hemisphere of Mars has a lower altitude than the southern hemisphere: the Borealis basin is most probably the remains of a giant collision, such as the one that in fine gave birth to Phobos and Deimos.
And ozone, which forms a beneficial shield against ultraviolet radiation when high in the stratosphere, is an efficient greenhouse gas when it appears at airliner altitudes — as it increasingly does, since it too is a by - product of fossil fuel burning.
A picture taken by a camera on the underbelly of the lander at a 3 - kilometer altitude showed it to be nearly in the middle of a 1 - kilometer - wide landing ellipse.
Named Brownleeite after Donald Brownlee (a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle and head of NASA's Stardust comet sample return mission), the substance was identified in a speck of cosmic dust taken from the stratosphere in 2003 by a high - altitude NASA aircraft.
Time is running out: if global warming continues at its current rate, glaciers at an altitude below 3,500 metres in the Alps and 5,400 metres in the Andes will have disappeared by the end of the end of the 21st century.
The new study confirms that so - called «starving glaciers» in dry, high - altitude environments are indeed controlled by precipitation.
Planes could avoid creating contrails by flying at lower altitudes, he says, or steering clear of water - rich patches of air — although such measures could prove counterproductive if they make flying more inefficient and lead to a greater increase in CO2 levels.
The Brazuca ball being used in the 2014 FIFA World Cup will play better at Brazil's higher altitude stadiums, according to studies by RMIT University researchers in Melbourne, Australia.
However, Sagan and Christopher Chyba believe organic compounds, formed at high altitudes by the action of solar ultraviolet radiation on methane and ammonia can provide an ultraviolet «shield» to protect the methane and ammonia in the lower atmosphere.
But in 1991, in addition to the high - altitude hole, ozone below 13 kilometres was destroyed by chemical reactions involving the volcanic aerosol.
ADS — B — first conceived in the early 1990s by the FAA and a variety of government agencies and businesses that build and / or rely heavily on airplanes, including NASA and delivery giant United Parcel Service (UPS)-- relies on the proactive communication between global positioning system (GPS) satellites and transponders placed on board aircraft to inform pilots, other aircraft and air traffic controllers about an aircraft's location, identity, speed and altitude.
In previous years, the Antarctic ozone hole, which is caused by destructive chemical reactions involving CFCs released by human activities, had formed at higher altitudes — above 15 kilometres.
BICEP2 has plenty of competition in searching for B - mode polarization in the CMB: other projects include the Atacama B - mode Search (ABS) led by Princeton University; the POLARBEAR experiment led by the University of California, Berkeley; the high - altitude balloon — borne E and B Experiment (EBEX) run by the University of Minnesota; the Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS) led by Johns Hopkins University; and numerous others.
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