Sentences with phrase «elevation area»

The roughly 20 million acres that the agency manages «will not begin to see bigger campaign fires for some time,» since there's still snow on the ground in some higher elevation areas.

IRRI also gives support in national strategy and framework planning for hybrid rice development; research on abiotic stress tolerance particularly submergence, drought, and low temperature damage in high elevation areas; support for the implementation of integrated crop and resource management in the target areas through the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) and the Indonesian Rice Knowledge Bank; and support of dissemination of post harvest technologies.

At the Governor's direction, 365,000 sandbags have been deployed to the region and are ready for placement in lower elevation areas.

All told, 365,000 sandbags were deployed to the region and placed in lower - elevation areas.

On other Hawaiian islands, only high - elevation areas have generally been cool enough to keep out the mosquitoes that spread avian diseases.

The monsoon precipitation intensified, and the increase caused erosion along the Tibetan Plateau and lower elevation areas nearby in what today is China, researchers found.

The climate is generally mild, with temperatures cooler in higher elevation areas.

However, if the current rate of retreat continues, high elevation areas could have altered seasonal and temporal water flow in some river basins.

Higher elevation areas could experience altered water flow in some river basins if current rates of glacial retreat continue, but shifts in the location, intensity, and variability of rain and snow due to climate change will likely have a greater impact on regional water supplies.

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Elevation, which is one of the fastest growing churches in the US, also told WSOC - TV that it offers child care during services and it has several designated areas for nursing mums if they opt to use them.

The winery sits atop one of the highest points in Wine Country and this elevation provides a sweeping 360 degree view of the surrounding valleys, vineyards and mountains, offering the best views in the area.

The peak is covered with the metro area's top golf course — in elevation, that is.

A low - tide elevation is a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low tide but submerged at high tide.

It is mud season in the Adirondack High Peaks, and state officials are urging hikers to protect trails from erosion by slogging through wet areas or simply sticking to lower elevations.

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Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Upper elevations have not been affected nearly as much, but most states don't have that much area at 7,000 - plus feet.

Red areas on the topographic image indicate high elevations, and blue or purple areas indicate low elevation.

In the graphic below, the darkest blue regions represent the highest elevations and the white areas represent the lowest on the continent.

Rest: Unpainful movement of the area is important, but avoid putting weight on the injury for a prolonged time, perhaps by using crutches, until it is less painful to use Ice: Apply ice, not heat, to the affected area for 10 to 20 minutes every hour or two throughout the first 24 to 72 hours or until the swelling subsides Compression: Wear an elastic compression wrap for the first 24 to 36 hours to help minimize any swelling Elevation: Rest the injury above heart level for two to three hours per day to reduce the amount of swelling that collects in the body's extremities Stabilization: Especially if medical care is not readily available, like in the wilderness, stabilize the injured area until care becomes available

«Novel mechanism to explain high elevation of Denver area.»

Researchers hope that particular attention will be paid to these high - elevation slide areas.

For example, coastal areas or areas in the flood plain of a river are more likely to experience a natural disaster, whereas areas at higher elevation are at lower risk.

While higher - elevation lodgepole pines are historically adapted to stand - replacing fires — their serotinous cones only open under high heat — the Forest Service is concerned that ponderosas will not regenerate in those areas on their own, she said.

«Furthermore, a substantial elevation in PM2.5 may also serve as a nudge that reminds or alerts people to avoid areas and activities where other people may share an infection with them, to not touch their face with dirty hands, to be vigilant about washing their hands when reasonably possible or prudent, and to engage in other preventive behaviors that are known to reduce infection risk.»

In mice that gorged and then fasted, the researchers saw elevations in inflammation, higher activation of genes that promote storage of fatty molecules and plumper fat cells — especially in the abdominal area — compared to the mice that nibbled all day.

They applied these to two areas in the Odva Regio highlands region of Venus where they confirmed the same pattern of radar reflections brightening with increasing elevation, as was found by previous researchers.

He also noted that the study leaves scientists with food for thought on the role of elevation: Squirrel resistance decreased and venom activity increased in areas with higher elevation.

«Given that habitat area and connectivity foster biodiversity, whereas isolation favors the dominance of few species, we hypothesized that topography itself could be playing a key role in regulating how biodiversity varies with elevation.»

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

The revised maps are the first update in the coastal areas of Maryland in 25 years and confirm both increases and decreases in the 100 - year flood elevations over this period of time.

The researchers also discovered that forests in lower elevations — areas not generally targeted for panda habitat — are not being protected in the same way.

There, the uplift of the mountains is extremely rapid (on the order of 1 centimeter per year, whereas in other areas 5 millimeters per year is more typical) and the river drops by 2 kilometers in elevation as it flows through the famous Tsangpo Gorge, known by some as the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon because it is so deep and long.

Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level — elevations much higher than the known species of olingo.

But for some reason, the terrain beneath the trough slowly gained elevation over millions of years, and those lakes gradually gave way to a long - lived region of wetlands covering an area the size of Egypt or larger.

Yosemite toads only come together for about two weeks once a year in late spring to breed in shallow water areas located at elevations of 6,500 feet or higher in the Sierra Nevada.

It has an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (about a quarter of the U.S. landmass) and an average elevation of over 4,500 meters.

And areas where more African Americans lived showed significant elevations in four compounds, including sulfate and zinc.

For instance, their model predicted higher elevations in the southwestern region of the asteroid, but such elevations are instead found in the opposite area.

Here are some satellite tracks, from NASA's ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), revealing areas of dynamic thinning (red) in Antarctica and Greenland [click to enlarge].

It is uniquely colored and centers around the Four Corners area at elevations from 5000 - 11000 feet.

Pregnant women have been warned by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to avoid traveling to areas where the mosquito - born virus is spreading, including any part of Brazil that's under 6,500 feet in elevation.

Some plants should only be harvested from an area above a certain elevation because they are especially sensitive to air pollution.

Over time the area of service dedicated to fitness grew, and in 2008 he formed Elevation Fitness which is currently located atop the Hustler Building on the Sunset Strip.

An area of strong shiitake mushroom interest that partially overlaps with investigation of cancers involves the role of microorganisms in promotion of chronic inflammation and subsequent elevation of cancer risk.

A brisk walk into the surrounding hills near Goulongzhu's home would quickly leave me breathless; Zhongchacun is 7,614 feet above sea level, and in an area where 14,000 feet above sea level is the average altitude, the village's elevation is relatively mild.

E: (elevation) Simply raise the injured area above the level of the heart at all possible times.

The elevation - profile tool allows teachers to create an elevation profile in an area of the Web GIS map by drawing a line across that area (Figure 6).

Our students will engage with leading innovative organizations in higher education, business and science, to empower them to make original and impactful contributions toward the elevation of South Carolina in the areas of education, commerce, arts and science.

Lesson 4 brings in Excel as the technology for graphing relationships between temperatures at weather stations in the study areas and elevation.