Sentences with phrase «by monsoonal»

We speculate that the dust is mainly eolian in origin and that the availability and transport of dust are influenced by variations in the vegetation cover on the Maastrichtian - Paleocene African or Asian zone, which were respectively located at tropical to subtropical latitudes to the south or far to the east of the western Tethyan Umbria - Marche Basin, and were characterized by monsoonal circulation.

Not exact matches

Back on board, enjoy a late lunch as the monsoonal rainforest of the Northern Territory Outback rushes by the window.

The really interesting question, to follow on the last sentence of the story, is: what if you're an Indian kid looking for a light to read by — and also living near the rising ocean, or vulnerable to the the range expansion of dengue - bearing mosquitoes, or dependent on suddenly - in - question monsoonal rains.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

Condensation actually works against that 9.4 W / m2 flow of heat, by dumping much of the latent heat of condensation back on the tropical surface in the form of monsoonal rains.