Sentences with phrase «desert area warmer»

If water vapor has an amplifying effect as climate modelers claim, why is the daily mean temperature in a dry, desert area warmer (in spite of nighttime cooling) than a humid tropical area at the same latitude?

Not exact matches

In the Ozarks, glades often help to preserve isolated communities of cacti and other desert and prairie species that dominated the area during the Hypsithermal, a period of warming that occurred four to eight thousand years ago.

In the wild, they like to live in warm, dry areas, like steppes, sand dunes and the edges of deserts.

This disease occurs primarily in the desert areas of the southwestern United States and needs a warm arid climate with alkaline soil to survive.

With desert backdrops and golden sands lapped by warm waters, this area of Egypt offers a different perspective from the bustle of the Nile - side towns.

Warm evening air, a desert breeze, cabañas by the pool — what's not to love about a luxurious wedding in the California desert, especially with choices like The Parker Palm Springs or Two Bunch Palms, both in the Palm Springs area, or Furnace Creek Resort in Death Valley National Park.

They mentioned that the surrounding areas had been deserts and evidence for this came from some clay pits in the Czech area which showed that about every 7000 years dust had blown from the deserts east of the Black sea to these clay pits and this could represent global warming happening every 7000 years.

IPCC AR4 WG1, Chapter 6 (buried in the text) states the area of deserts shrinks when warmer and expands when colder (i.e. warmer is better for life than cold)

Since 1970 we have seen exactly what global warming models predict — more rainfall in the North - West and some desert areas and less in the major agricultural regions.

It also fails to take into account that a warmer earth will see an increase in deserts and other arid lands, reducing the area available for crops.»

According to IPCC AR4, WG1, Chapter 6, the area of deserts increases when warmer and decreases when colder.

And Mars drier than anyplace on earth - it's a dry, very cold airless desert - and that in it's wetter and warmer areas:) Venus has such a huge atmosphere that it holds about as much water vapor in it's atmosphere that it has somewhere near as much a earth does in it's atmosphere.

The warming records that article talks about are one offs, and beat by a slim temporary margin, whereas things like the California droughts are historical and mostly in a desert area already, which was charged up by heavy rainfall this spring, which led to so many ladder fuels to burn when it inevitably dries out by mid summer to late fall.

Everyone who has first hand experience in both forested areas and deserts knows that forests are warmer because they're darker.

The area now is rich in oak and hickory forest, encouraged by more warming during the last 2,000 years, but then, Opuntia species were part of the dominant desert plant community.

Well drained and rocky substrate there creates a glade ecosystem where sloping ground can encourage the growth of prickly pear cacti and other desert and prairie species such as the collared lizard, Crotaphytus that last covered the whole area around 7,000 years ago in the Hypsithermal Interval, during the Holocene Period, when warming dried out much of the glacial Northern Hemisphere.

Cloud formation is affected by several factors, including concentration of aerosols and dust, and are relatively scarce over areas of maximum warming, namely the poles and the deserts.