Sentences with phrase «for drier regions»

Part Six — Nonlinearity and Dry Atmospheres — demonstrating that different distributions of water vapor yet with the same mean can result in different radiation to space, and how this is important for drier regions like the sub-tropics

Noting more frequent and extreme rainfall in the Sahel, Mali asked why dry regions were not mentioned, to which the CLAs responded that, because of natural variability, the same statement could not be made for dry regions.

Not exact matches

The Southwest, for example, is one of the warmest and driest regions in the country, and it's expected to see average temperatures rise another 2.5 to 5.5 degrees in the coming decades, the assessment says.

This region of the United States is the driest, yet it is attractive for the Saudi company because of water rights.

In Mexico the high plateau populations used water - rationing methods for centuries in their farming, which made possible the flourishing of an area that today is totally dry and eroded due to lack of measures to prevent a permanent water shortage in the region.

The dry Dead Sea region of Qumran is perfect for the preservation of manuscripts that would otherwise turn to dust.

Guests purchasing a VIP ticket will be cordially invited (limited to 45 guests) to attend a Wines of Germany seminar for an in - depth exploration of an amazing region, tasting through an array of German Rieslings; from dry to deliciously fruity before enjoying their fire - kissed meat experience.

It is a link to Istria, my native region, where the imminent arrival of Christmas at our house (and everyone else's) was scented by the unmistakable vapors of dried codfish, cooking for hours and hours.

The company will invest $ 60 million expanding three cultures production sites in the region as a response to increasing demand for frozen and freeze - dried starter cultures from the global yogurt, fresh fermented and cheese markets.

The region of Provence, in the south of France, is the benchmark for traditional, dry, food - friendly rosé.

Parents living with newborns in dry or cold regions must purchase a humidifier for their little one's room, as it can prove to be a great alternative to cold and cough medicines, as the FDA is against the idea of giving over the counter medicines to newborns.

For example, Central Anatolia is described as an elevated, dry, cold plain of Lycaonia in Strabo's Geographika in 7 BC, and even cave paintings in the region dating to approximately 7000 BC record active volcanic eruptions on the plateau.»

Not much grows in the icy polar regions, but for the fern - like clusters of ice crystals called frost flowers this is the perfect environment, especially when it's still and dry.

And climate models predict wet regions will become wetter and dry regions drier, which means more rain for all of the UK, not just the coasts.

Southwest, Texas Stay Parched and Warmer than Normal «Mild and dry» will unfortunately be the mantra this winter for much of Texas and the Southwest, a region that desperately needs rain.

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

The invention could boost water supplies in the driest regions, say experts, and a similar setup could be used to precisely control the flow of tiny amounts of fluids for sensitive diagnostic tests.

Researchers in the US have found evidence from lake sediments that the driest conditions for 7000 years hit the region around AD 900.

Fifteen Major League Baseball teams bringplayers to Arizona for spring training every year where the athletes are exposed to a lung disease that's on the rise as the region's climatewarms and dries

It also could allow corn to be grown in regions where it currently is not, including drier areas traditionally used for wheat cultivation or livestock grazing.

«How vegetation competes for rainfall in dry regions.»

«Even the undercutter method is too much tillage for fallow after oilseeds in the dry region,» say the researchers.

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.

For example, El Niño generally makes wet regions wetter and dry regions drier, so when scientists see that happening, it has been difficult to say whether it is climate change or simply El Niño.

Wellington provided the perfect venue for this study since the village is located in a region that has distinct wet and dry seasons and that is subject to permanent year - round mandatory water restrictions.

Even if the natural variation in temperatures caused by the AMO is the only factor affecting temperatures in the western U.S., that region is set for several decades of warmer, drier conditions, according to Swetnam's paper, published online December 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

Professor Kug notes that further research is needed to obtain a general conclusion on the matter, but this research delivers important implications for climate adaptation because the analysis shows that if current warming trends continue, it is feasible to conclude that the ecosystems in regions affected by the anomalous climate will suffer greater damages due to the cold and dry spells.

For example, scientists have found that El Niño and La Niña, the periodic warming and cooling of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, are correlated with a higher probability of wet or dry conditions in different regions around the globe.

Because El Niño's warmer, drier conditions in tropical regions mimic the effects of climate change expected by the end of the century, those observations may be a sobering harbinger of the tropics» diminishing role as a buffer for fossil fuel emissions (SN Online: 9/28/17).

Together they have explored Mars's equatorial region for evidence of water long since dried up.

«Although we have found that this process is happening slower than first thought, if global warming exceeds 3 °C, wet regions will likely get more than 10 per cent wetter and dry regions more than 10 per cent drier, which could have disastrous implications for river flows and agriculture.»

Arid western US regions will be up to 7 percent drier in the future, forecasts Nelson, citing increasing need for biologists, hydrologists, and engineers to cope with the challenges.

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

«Rules of thumb for climate change turned upside down: Wet and dry regions recalculated.»

The very cold winters and short, cool, and dry summers in the region turned out to be ideal for preserving DNA.

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.

For example, El Niño is typically associated with drier weather in the Pacific Northwest, but this year the region has seen particularly wet weather instead.

To find the gene itself, Yoshiura and his colleagues looked for genetic differences in this region among 64 Japanese with dry earwax and 54 Japanese with wet earwax.

As cropland continues to expand at the expense of Cerrado vegetation, the decrease in dry season water recycling could eventually impact the region's critical rainy season, which is responsible for the lion's share of Cerrado rains.

The latter is probably responsible e.g. for the (robust) projection of summer drying of the Mediterranean (and other subtropic regions).

Habitat for the plants and animals declined after years of pumping water from the delta for use in the state's drier regions.

The red region shows the habitable zone as extended inward for dry planets, with minimal surface water, a low water - vapor atmospheric abundance, and low atmospheric relative humidity and hence a smaller greenhouse effect.

This site provides the exceptionally dry atmospheric conditions necessary for astronomical observations at millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths (wavelengths between the radio and far - infrared spectral regions).

And when farmers set their usual fires to clear brush for planting, the dry conditions caused many to burn out of control, causing one of the biggest burn years on record and leading to a pall of smoke over the region.

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.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

Analysing surface temperature data for 1979 - 2015, they link a warm Arctic during March to colder - than - average temperatures over northern regions of North America and dry conditions in central southern areas between March and May.

Fresh or dried peppermint leaves, as well as peppermint extract, can be found in most grocery stores and supermarkets throughout the year, though in certain regions, fresh varieties may be in easier to find in mid to late summer, when the plant's flowers are in bloom and the leaves are ripe for picking.