Despite searing temperatures,
desert aridity and the occasional sandstorm, Moroccan women manage to stay gorgeous, with their ropes of shiny black hair, supple skin and thick eyelashes.
Not exact matches
Whether it be «violent flashfloods to stark
aridity» or «the bitter cold of the mountains to the blazing heat of the
deserts,» one thing is certain: Arizona seems to earn its title of «one of the world's best natural laboratories for weather.»
It may seem counterintuitive, he said, because «most people associate dust emission with
aridity and
deserts, not with precipitation.»
«This agrees with our results from DNA, which indicate that modern
desert - living bandicoot groups pre-date the onset of
aridity by as much as 40 million years,» says Prof. Westerman.
«This agrees with our results from DNA, which indicate that modern
desert - living bandicoot groups pre-date the onset of
aridity by as much as 40 million years.»
CO2's effect of stimulating plant growth and increasing plant tolerance of
aridity contributed to revegetating large areas of land that were
desert at the LGM, compounding the effects of an increase in atmospheric humidity, reduced land / ocean surface ocean ration, and increased warmth, all of which combined caused the reduction of airborne dust and atmosperic albedo.
«But even this remarkably adaptable society — one of the first urban civilisations built in a
desert — could not cope forever with a falling water table and intensifying
aridity.
Increased dust flux may increase
aridity and suppress rainfall outside
deserts, with opposite effects under wetting scenarios (Bachelet et al., 2001; Hardy, 2003; Prospero and Lamb, 2003; Lioubimtseva and Adams, 2004), leading to indirect effects on the vulnerability of remote regions to climate change.