Sentences with phrase «from warmer regions»

The highest levels are usually found in commodities from warmer regions of the world where there is a great deal of climatic variation.
These frost - intolerant salvias hail from warmer regions of the new world.
Doesn't the thermal energy spread away from the source moving from the warmed region to all the cooler regions?
2) The silver wire will transport heat from warmer region to the cooler region, but in so doing it short circuits the transport of heat by convection.

Not exact matches

If the rising ocean levels caused by global warming force us to build dikes and relocate people away from delta regions, that, too will add to what we measure as Gross Domestic Product.
«Sourced from Napa Valley, warmer Lake County Vineyards in the North Coast and cool southern Suisun Valley vineyards just south of Napa County, this Sauvignon Blanc expresses flavors indicative of the region in which the grapes were grown: Juicy tropical passion fruit, mango and guava flavors are balanced by lemongrass notes, rounded out with refreshing and zesty lime and lemon citrus flavors.»
Inspired by the simple cherry desserts from the Limousin region of France, this baked custard can be served warm or at room temperature.
Preserving its full - bodied flavor and nutritional value, our cacao powder is made from premium organic Criollo cacao beans harvested in the warm, climatic regions of Peru.
From Hunter Valley to cooler region such as Adelaide Hills, Yarra Valley and Tasmania to warmer regions in Margaret River, the country provides a contrast of styles between the leaner, crisp style found in Adelaide Hills and riper, richer style in Margaret River.
Fortunately, he'd given some cuttings from his own vines to his neighbour, Mark Gifford at Blue Poles vineyard, who shared them with friends Lynne and Phil Foster, grape growers at Yallingup, in the warmer north of the region.
Located just 60 minutes from San Diego, Orange County and Palm Springs, and 90 minutes from Los Angeles, Temecula Valley is a warm, welcoming wine region synonymous with the sunny, relaxed spirit of Southern California.
From cool climate regions in Tasmania and Victoria such as the Coal River and Yarra Valleys, through to warmer regions like McLaren Vale in South Australia and Frankland River in Western Australia.
[1] From 2013 the Energy Company Obligation will provide annual funding of around # 540 million to assist fuel - poor households; in 2010 - 2011 a combination of Warm Front and Energy Supplier Obligations provided support in the region of # 1.1 billion.
Windham, an hour south of Albany, is more dependent on winter visitors from downstate, although in the warmer months it sees an influx of Capital Region residents as well, said spokeswoman Beth Stewart.
The findings suggest that effective new greenhouse gas controls could help lessen the effects of climate change on the release of carbon from soils of the northern permafrost region and therefore decrease the potential for a positive feedback of permafrost carbon release on climate warming.
To investigate why the warm winds were so persistent, lasting 350 years, the team combined their data with information from other regions of the world.
The spot where Europa's plumes appear to originate (left, with the green oval showing the 2014 occurrence and the blue oval showing the 2016 occurrence) is also the warmest spot on the icy moon's surface, shown in a heat map from the Galileo spacecraft (right, with lighter yellow contours showing relatively warmer regions).
Brighter regions at night indicate surfaces that retain more heat from the previous day than surrounding surfaces, just as grassy fields cool off at night while buildings in the city remain warmer.
Scientists thought strong upwelling of colder deep waters spared the region from the warming seen in other parts of the Pacific, she said.
Warm water flowing through the Indonesian archipelago from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean influences the climate of the surrounding regions.
Rapid decomposition facilitated by warm temperatures and abundant moisture in these same tropical regions slowed the accumulation of organic matter that was not protected from microbial decomposers.
That region, he says, is susceptible to even small amounts of warming and cooling from the atmosphere — and how cold the water gets influences how much or how little it sinks, thereby driving or delaying, respectively, the ocean conveyer belt.
A new study by scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) and other groups predicts that the effects of climate change will severely impact the Albertine Rift, one of Africa's most biodiverse regions and a place not normally associated with global warming.
Scientists conducting fieldwork in the region are reporting massive chick die - offs and nests with abandoned eggs, reports National Geographic's Winged Warnings series, which lays out the many threats facing the island's seabirds: warming oceans, earlier thaws, changing ocean chemistry and food webs, and increasing levels of ocean pollutants from PCBs to mercury.
The European flooding of the past few weeks was caused by a low - pressure system over eastern Europe drawing warm, moist air from the Mediterranean region.
So far the team has looked only at data from the Pacific Ocean region, but if other tropical oceans have the same effect, Earth may be well equipped to handle global warming.
Background This study confirms that global warming impacts river flood risk in Europe significantly, though it can vary in magnitude from region to region.
The mammals are the class of vertebrate animals characterized by the production of milk in females for the nourishment of young, from mammary glands present on most species and specialized skin glands in monotremes that seep or ooze milk; the presence of hair or fur; specialized teeth; three minute bones within the ear; the presence of a neocortex region in the brain; and endothermic or «warm - blooded» bodies.
It now seems this warming will probably be distinguishable from natural variability much faster in tropical regions than in mid-latitudes.
«If there were a link, it would be more likely to occur in fall [when the Arctic sea ice is at a low and the region is warm] than it would in January [when the Arctic is ice - covered and cold], so from that point of view, it's not a compelling candidate at this time of year,» Hoerling said.
The research concludes that for other changes, such as regional warming and sea ice changes, the observations over the satellite - era since 1979 are not yet long enough for the signal of human - induced climate change to be clearly separated from the strong natural variability in the region
However, when temperatures warm over the Antarctic regions, deep waters rise from the floor of the ocean much closer to the continent.
«Under scenarios of moderate warming, 1 or 2 degrees Celsius globally, crops in tropical regions will suffer in terms of yield, whereas at mid - to higher latitudes, they might benefit from a little bit of warming.
The national average peak is June 12, but the peak in particular regions can be anywhere from early May to early July, when warm, moist air from over the Gulf of Mexico can venture northward and clash with other air masses, creating an unstable atmospheric environment.
We usually interpret them as an insight into star - forming regions, with the illumination from young stars warming dust particles and water molecules until they start to glow.
Owing to cyclical changes in the tilt of the planet's axis and its varying distance from the sun due to its elliptical orbit, Mars's poles warm dramatically every million years or so, making the regions more congenial to organic processes.
A warming world has spurred these changes, researchers conclude, because the total number of flowers has declined in this region — and the shorter tongue enables the bees to suck nectar from more kinds of flowers.
One sip of deep, inky purple, and he can distinguish the jammy, syrup - ripe fruit flavor of a shiraz grown in a warm climate from the lean olive notes of a syrah, made from the same grape, grown in a cooler region of France.
Global warming is desiccating the region in two ways: higher temperatures that increase evaporation in already parched soils, and weaker winds that bring less rain from the Mediterranean Sea during the wet season (November to April).
The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.
A team of researchers from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel together with colleagues from Bergen, Oslo and Tromsø (Norway), have now discovered that large - scale sedimentation caused by melting of glaciers in a region off Norway has played a greater role in gas hydrate dissociation than warming ocean waters.
First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.
Black carbon warms the atmosphere because of its ability to absorb radiation from the sun, but its effect can be especially pernicious in polar regions, where, falling on bright ice, the soot diminishes the regions» ability to reflect away heat.
«Most of the paleoclimate records from this region are plant - based, and track only the warm part of the year — the growing season,» says Candace Major, program director in NSF's Directorate for Geosciences, which funded the research.
But as waters in the region warm, rainbow trout have swum up from the western lakes where they were introduced decades ago to cutthroat native grounds.
That mismatch sets up currents in the fluid, causing the soapy water to stream from warmer to colder regions, a process known as Marangoni flow.
New findings link rising ocean temperatures off the northern coast of Brazil to changing weather patterns: As the Atlantic warms, it draws moisture away from the forest, priming the region for bigger fires.
The higher CO2 levels of the Pliocene have long been associated with a warmer world, but evidence from tropical regions suggested relatively stable temperatures.
The anthrax currently infecting reindeer and people in western Siberia likely came from the carcass of a reindeer that died in an anthrax outbreak 75 years ago and has been frozen ever since — until an unusually warm summer thawed permafrost across the region this year, according to local officials.
Geologists studying a region in the Mexican state of Veracruz have discovered evidence to explain the origin of the Wilcox Formation, one of Mexico's most productive oil plays, as well as support for the theory that water levels in the Gulf of Mexico dropped dramatically as it was separated from the rest of the world's oceans and Earth entered a period of extreme warming.
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