Sentences with phrase «from vegetated»

A particularly instructive example is the Sahel region of Africa, which switched from vegetated land that supported cattle to unproductive desert within 5 years beginning about 1965, causing widespread famine and an international crisis in the region that continues to be a problem today.

A band ratio was used on the imagery to identify active mining operations and to discriminate bare surfaces from vegetated land.

Not exact matches

I'm sure that, like me, you spent a great deal of time vegetating, watching insane amounts of television, eating obscene amounts of food, and in general recovering from the semester so that you could come back refreshed and ready to (re) tackle the beast this semester.

The results indicated the soil chemistry and root - zone nutrient budgets have been altered by the Acacia tree cover, and the trajectory of change is in a direction that does not conform to any of the naturally vegetated sites from Guam.

By examining an old crevasse along Bayou Lafourche, a precursor of the Mississippi River, the researchers found that mud can build enough land to keep up with sea level rise if the diversion flows into existing vegetated areas protected from marine forces.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

From a quarter to half of Earth's vegetated lands has shown significant greening over the last 35 years largely due to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change on April 25.

Our ensemble fire weather season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.

Further, all data sets were masked using the vegetated (burnable) land area defined by a global landcover data set developed from AVHRR satellite data67.

From the towering mountains of the Drakensberg to the warm waters of the Indian Ocean with no fewer than five Blue Flag beaches, KwaZulu Natal is a subtropical, densely vegetated land of hot, humid summers and enviable winters.

In the Heart of Maputaland, nestling behind the world's highest vegetated sand dunes about 5 km from the sea, Sodwana Bay Lodge has been carefully designed to match the rustic, eco-oriented nature of the region.

The route is the same travelers normally follow from the Kona direction when driving toward HAWAI`I VOLCANOES NATIONAL PARK and offers views of landscapes that run from mauka (mountains) to makai (ocean), including a rainforest reserve, well - vegetated volcanic terrain, sweeping vistas of the ocean as well as the volcanoes MAUNA LOA AND KILAUEA.

If CO2 in the Anthropocene atmosphere contributes to re-vegetating currently arid areas as it did post-LGM, we should expect an even greater warming feedback from CO2 than is assumed from water vapor and albedo feedbacks, due to decreased global dust - induced albedo and increased water vapor from transpiration over increased vegetated area.

Linwood Pendleton of Duke University, North Carolina has produced a paper, Estimating Global «Blue Carbon» Emissions from Conversion and Degradation of Vegetated Coastal Ecosystems, with a large group of fellow - scientists which elucidates this large calculation.

So if you need a green roof or vegetated wall (bio filter) installed in the Mid Atlantic, you should make sure to get a bid from Furbish Co..

Graphs show a) Global average wildfire season length (expressed as a standardised anomaly), and b) Total global average area experiencing «long» wildfire seasons (as a % of global vegetated area)-- both from 1979 to 2013.

Most of the energy transfer from the surface of this rather wet globe is accomplished by evaporation, and heavily so in vegetated areas on land.

In the tropics the more vegetated conditions inferred from pollen records in the now dry sub-Saharan regions indicate wetter conditions due to enhanced summer monsoons (see Braconnot et al., 2004 for a review).

Largely off topic but maybe relevant: From some recent reading I have done, I understand that in the BC era Spain, Italy, and Greece were heavily forested and vegetated, and had a wet sub tropical climate.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS • Achieved success in balancing a ledger that was in a vegetating position following a missing entry • Promoted from a host position to a night auditor's position following excellence in customer service and supervisor feedback

I should have been connecting with her, as it's our second last night together of my holidays, but I was cactus from a week of not sleeping properly (I keep waking in the middle of the night and worrying), so I was only capable vegetating on the couch.