Sentences with phrase «covering significant areas»

Not exact matches

The epoch of settled and expanding civilisation which began with the Romano - Hellenic Empire, was the first historically known period of widespread and continuous human culture over a significant area; it came indeed to cover most of the known world by the time of the birth of Christ.

This includes taking the credit for significant areas of policy covering welfare, energy, housing, and constitutional reform.

«Several of these bills covered important areas such as charities, criminal justice and anti-slavery measures and had significant impacts on Scotland.»

As the area of this cloud cover grows, it reflects more of the shortwave radiation; but as the clouds get taller, their greenhouse effect becomes more significant, counteracting about half of their total cooling effect.»

Mafic LIPs, covering ≥ 50 000 — 100 000 km2 in area, contain significant amounts of mafic rocks distributed across Gondwana, and therefore stand out as one of the major and potential global sediment sources.

Significant co-funding opportunities within all areas covered by SFI's legal remit will be considered, including the 14 areas of national priority as defined in the Report of the Research Prioritisation Steering Group.

The Strategic Partnership Programme is open on a rolling basis to applications involving strategic opportunities within all areas covered by SFI's legal remit where significant co-funding from a company, collection of companies, funding agency, charity, philanthropic organization or Higher Education Institute is available.

Some psoriasis patients have told me that they have experienced significant improvements from particularly stubborn psoriatic lesions by applying moisturizing creams or ointments and have then covered the area with plastic wrap.

«Compulsive hoarding, also known as hoarding disorder, is a pattern of behavior that is characterized by excessive acquisition and an inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment.»

A human resource management (HRM) dissertation can cover a wide variety of topics, so it becomes significant to start with broader viewpoint and then focus it on a precise area.

These three areas are covered by a state of emergency that includes police checkpoints and a significant military presence, where travel may be restricted.

The high cosmic ray - cloud cover correlation in the period 1983 - 1991 over the Atlantic Ocean, the only large ocean area over which the correlation is statistically significant, is greatly weakened when the extended satellite data set (1983 - 1993) is used.

I'm not going to address all of them, but some of the most significant would impact hydraulic fracturing, ozone standards, methane controls and the next five - year plan covering access to offshore areas.

The areas of Canada with the significant + ve anomaly are notorious for boom - bust periods — they have had 4 years of excellent spring skiing but what about the years where the snow cover has been - ve?

Note that a significant portion of the land area in this satellite capture is covered by very large fires.

Presuming that we want to be able to compare weather records over time without having to adjust or note for changes in exposure and land use and ground cover, it is best to locate weather stations over natural ground cover, and in an area not likely to experience significant changes in ground cover in the foreseeable future.

First, if significant aerosol concentrations only cover, say, 10 % of the globe, doesn't that mean that to get a 0.5 degree cooling effect for the whole Earth, there must be a 5 degree cooling effect in the affected area.

Furnace Creek Ranch / Greenland Ranch is, and has been, an oasis area with a variety of different ground covers, and with an assortment of buildings and vegetation which have significant effects on the local temperature patterns on sunny summer days.

PA, the satellite data is comprehensive in area and covers a significant depth of the atmosphere, so I don't think the urban heat island would be significant.

They explain how, overall, Antarctic sea ice cover (frozen sea surface), for separate reasons involving wind changing in relation to the location of certain warming sea water currents, shows a slight upward trend, though it also shows significant melting in some areas.

rooflite is engineered for excellent green roof performance, which covers a few different areas that all act together to provide significant stormwater retention volume.

NASA's Quarterly Indicator of Cover Change (QUICC), a MODIS satellite - based product that underpins Mongabay's Global Forest Disturbance Alert System (GloF - DAS), detected a significant increase in forest disturbance in Peru's Alto Nanay Pintuyacu Chambira conservation area and Alto Purus National Park between January 1 and March 31, 2015.

So if Eric could somehow justify doing so, our West Antarctic trend would increase from 0.10 Deg C / decade to 0.16 Deg C / decade, and the area of statistically significant trends would grow to cover the WAIS divide, yielding statistically significant warming over 56 % (instead of 33 %) of West Antarctica.

When researchers with the USDA Forest Service researchers David Nowak and Eric Greenfield analyzed tree cover extent in urban areas between 2009 and 2014, they found significant drop - offs in many areas.

In terms of size, Bahnstadt is probably the most significant Passive House project at the moment: an entire city district built completely to the Passive House Standard has been created on premises which were previously used as a freight railway station — a vibrant mix of residential and commercial buildings is emerging on an area covering 116 hectares.

«To «find» an area of forest that represents 10 percent of the global forest cover is very very significant, with broad consequences for global carbon budgeting and dryland restoration and management,» says Professor Andrew Lowe, Chair of Plant Conservation Biology at the University of Adelaide.

In a story featured on the cover of Nature, Eric J. Steig, David P. Schneider, Scott D. Rutherford, Michael E. Mann, Josefino C. Comiso and Drew T. Shindell report to have found «significant warming» that «extends well beyond the Antarctic Peninsula to cover most of West Antarctica, an area of warming much larger than previously -LSB-...]

We disagree with this conclusion, arguing that when cloud properties are considered as a global average (Fig. 3) or over areas of frequent cloud cover (Fig. 4), the strong anti-correlation between low and middle - to - high level cloud is both clear, and statistically significant.

[It] is based on measurements made by many independent institutions worldwide that demonstrate significant changes on land, in the atmosphere, the ocean and in the ice - covered areas of the Earth.»

These include the establishment of effective protected areas that would encompass a significant proportion of terrestrial, aquatic and aerial habitats, halting the degradation of forests and other native land cover and restoring those that have already been degraded; shifting diets to plant - based foods; reducing fertility rates by ensuring access to family planning services; and developing new green technologies.

For Carbon Storage, 10 % Forest Cover ≠ Forest Certainly a good thing: Creating ways to help farmers financially benefit by preserving forests on their lands is a vital part of combatting climate change — but (at the risk of being too snarky) I can't help but thinking that the differences in carbon storage of a particular area of land when it's an actual forest and when it's only got 10 % of its original tree cover is pretty signifiCover ≠ Forest Certainly a good thing: Creating ways to help farmers financially benefit by preserving forests on their lands is a vital part of combatting climate change — but (at the risk of being too snarky) I can't help but thinking that the differences in carbon storage of a particular area of land when it's an actual forest and when it's only got 10 % of its original tree cover is pretty significover is pretty significant.

(McGuire's 2009 paper notes that such effects will be much more pronounced in areas with significant ice cover, in other words, at higher latitudes.)

Here we show that significant warming extends well beyond the Antarctic Peninsula to cover most of West Antarctica, an area of warming much larger than previously reported.

For individuals, its attempt to cover law and practice in a whole number of areas is understandable but does mean that this can not be less than its 60 - odd pages and significant detail can not be avoided.

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