Sentences with phrase «heat dries the soil»

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Deep cleaning with greater heat, pressure, and extraction removes more dry particulate soil than any other method.

Lack of rainfall in recent months has left soils completely dry and unable to release moisture that would take up heat from the air through evaporation.

Record heat waves baked the soil, killed wildlife, and turned the bone - dry terrain into kindling for firestorms that incinerated entire towns.

That soil became even drier in the initial heat, which then pumped more warmth into the air above.

Harte and Shaw believe that the sagebrush and cinquefoil are more successful in the warm plot largely because heating dries out the soil.

The researchers will aim to find the genetic underpinnings of how plants react to stressors like drought, heat, pathogens and pests, as well as the salt that can accumulate in soils drying more quickly in a warming environment.

Since it is later in the afternoon, this gives the ground a chance to heat up, and as a consequence, rather than being absorbed, the precipitation is more likely to evaporate, drying out the soil, the plants, etc..

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

During a period of rapid population growth, a lower heat capacity due to drying out of the soil and lost vegetation, and an increase in heat retaining surfaces, then homogenization more often amplifies those warming effects that is not indicative of climate change.

The heat capacity of dry soil is about 0.20 BTU per pound per ºF of temperature change, which is only one - fifth the heat capacity of water.

«We've seen the effects of record heat on snow and soil moisture this year in California, and we know from this new research that climate change is increasing the probability of those warm and dry conditions occurring together.»

A large container will prevent the soil from drying out too quickly during the heat of summer as well.

As NOAA researcher Marty Hoerling told the media in July, drought plus heat «is just going to make a bad situation that much worse,» since higher temperatures dry soils out much more rapidly.