Sentences with phrase «dry regions such»

Large positive values of P * — E * indicate anomalously wet regions such as the Asian monsoon regions, the Pacific ITCZ, and the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks; large negative values of P * — E * indicate anomalously dry regions such as the subtropical lows, the Mediterranean, and the Boreal forests (Fig. 1).

Glaciers are «solid reservoirs» in dry regions such as Xinjiang — a rugged landscape of mountains, forests and deserts.

Overhead misters are generally used in drier regions such as Las Vegas or Phoenix).

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From water - and snow - resistant parkas made from skins worn by hunters in polar regions to garments fabricated using woven straw, such as the ancient Japanese mino, people have long sought ways to remain dry while outside in wet weather.

Choose ORGANIC varieties grown in a dry regions where aflatoxin have not been reported as a problem, such as New Mexico.

Dates are the fruit of the date palm tree and are grown primarily in dry, arid regions, such as the Middle East and parts of California.

The fluke needs snails and fish for its lifecycle, but there were no such snails or fish in this dry region of china.

Nathalie Pettorelli at the Institute of Zoology in London says herbivores in dry regions, such as the Arabian oryx, have a limited range of plants to choose from, so if one becomes too toxic they may have little else to eat.

During drying, the Sunset Yellow concentration varied within the drop, and microscope images revealed the formation of different fluid phases such as the isotropic liquid (random), liquid crystal nematic (aligned) and liquid crystal columnar (cylindrically packed) phases that segregate to different regions of the drop.

The boundary between the two phases moved toward the center as the droplet dried, and then other regions with different structures appeared, such as the columnar and crystal phases.

The Gobi - Altai mountain range in western Mongolia is in a very dry region but ice can accumulate on mountaintops, such as Sutai Mountain, the tallest peak in the range.

Computer model projections of future conditions analyzed by the Scripps team indicate that regions such as the Amazon, Central America, Indonesia, and all Mediterranean climate regions around the world will likely see the greatest increase in the number of «dry days» per year, going without rain for as many as 30 days more every year.

Water harvesting by collecting excess rain run - off for instance in cisterns — for supplementary irrigation during dry spells — is a common traditional approach in some regions such as the Sahel region in Africa, but is under - used in many other semi-arid regions such as Asia and North America.

Ganzhorn is particularly worried about smaller, high - risk regions such as the coastal forests and the dry deciduous forests in the west, which he notes tend not to receive the attention of conservation organizations who want to maximize their chances of having success stories to bring back to their donors.

In dry, sandy regions, barchan dunes can disrupt infrastructure such as roads and pipelines because of their transient nature.

Their efforts, plus the region's dry climate, helped preserve such buildings as the 36 - foot - high Amphitheater Pyramid, which was apparently used for religious functions.

One such valley, Margaritifer Sinus, would have received less rain than some other areas due to the Tharsis bulge causing drier air to flow over that region, yet shows evidence of large amounts of water having flowed there.

For example, in Earth atmospheric circulation (such as Hadley cells) transport heat between the warmer equatorial regions to the cool polar regions and this circulation pattern not only determines the temperature distribution, but also sets which regions on Earth are dry or rainy and how clouds form over the planet.

An example is the deadly Russian heatwave of 2010, which was the result of such a «stuck» high - pressure system that kept a large mass of hot, dry air parked over the region for weeks.

The ICARDA had to move from Syria to Lebanon — an unfortunate reminder that international cooperation can not always stop wars — and specializes in dry region agriculture with crops like chickpea and lentil; while the ICRISAT in India works in semi-arid crop improvement and focuses on locally important crops such as millet and sorghum.

It offers such competitive production bonuses that its thought to be one of the reasons why neighbouring region British Columbia has seen its development workforce dry up.

There are subtle effects such as the planet losing more heat from the open sea than from ice - covered region (some of this heat is absorbed by the atmosphere, but climates over ice - covered regions are of more continental winter character: dry and cold).

On air - water contact: Take dry air such as the air descending in the desert regions north and south of the equator and contact it with water.

On the other hand, ocean - atmosphere coupling is very well recognized in this region on longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or another.

Regions on the day side of the planet away from the subsolar point, such as Canada, experience net drying.

To do so, you'd need a study such as mine which shows water vapour cools and more moist regions have lower mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures than drier regions at similar latitudes and altitudes.

Yet, over rapidly developing countries such as China and India, significant increasing trends in AOD are seen in these source regions and their surrounding downwind oceans, particularly during the dry winter / postmonsoon months when the atmosphere is relatively stable, thus favoring accumulation of aerosols.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Some tropical regions, notably East Africa, are special — as the ITCZ travels such distances here that the area is affected during two passes each year there are also two rainy seasons (October - December and March - May), and two dry seasons (in between).

The fact that people have such discussions with a straight face at the same time as they can not actually say which regions will be warmer, cooler, wetter, drier, more extreme, less extreme (i.e. provide people with some kind of advice on what to plan for at a scale relevant to investment decisions) it quite incredible to me.

The only warming that can be ferreted out of the temperature records is in the coldest and most inhospitable regions on Earth, such as in the dry air of the Arctic or Siberia where going from a -50 °C to a -40 °C at one small spot on the globe is extrapolated across tens of thousands of miles and then branded as global warming.

75 During glacial time (and perhaps during the cold flips as well), the tropics were less wet than now — but some desert regions such as Nevada were less dry.

Global precipitation will increase, and the heaviest precipitation events are intensifying [1], but with regional differences: Wet regions such as the tropical rainforests will become rainier while semi-arid regions of the subtropics expand and become drier.