The warming trends in looking at numerous 100 year temperature plots from northern and
high elevation climate stations... i.e. warming trends in annual mean and minimum temperature averages, winter monthly means and minimums and especially winter minimum temperatures and dewpoints... indicate climate warming that is being driven by the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere — no visible effects from other things like changes in solar radiation or the levels of cosmic rays.
I live in a dry,
high elevation climate, so that could be a contributing factor.
Not exact matches
I live in New York and this recipe works for me, but if you live in a
higher elevation or very different
climate, you may need to adjust your flour amounts, rising, or baking times and temps.
Defined by its 1,000 feet or
higher elevation, the Southern Tier is the most expansive
climate zone in Western New York.
Although Bd poses less of a threat to frogs in the lowlands, this study suggests that species at lower
elevations are more susceptible to
climate changes, putting them at risk if they are unable to adapt or move to
higher altitudes.
In some instances, the tiny fungi and bacteria constrain where offspring can grow, but in
higher elevations — where the species is headed as the
climate warms — a less robust soil microbiome seems to create conditions where baby trees can thrive upslope.
Recent Forest Service studies on
high -
elevation climate trends in the Pacific Northwest United States show that streamflow declines tie directly to decreases and changes in winter winds that bring precipitation across the region.
Dozens of studies have already demonstrated that species are shifting their geographic ranges over time as the
climate warms, towards cooler habitats at
higher elevations and latitudes.
Microclimate is the
climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill,
higher vs. lower
elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).
One implication of their findings, presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that moving to
higher elevations to adapt to a warming
climate could drive species into habitats with a whole different set of spatial properties.
Mountains are useful for exploring the effects of
climate change because they show predictable changes in temperature and humidity with
elevation: In general, sites at low
elevations are warmer and drier than
higher elevation sites.
The researchers believe the retreat — and the move to
higher elevations — may reflect the fact that bumble bees evolved in cooler
climates than many other insects that haven't yet lost ground, and so are especially sensitive to warming temperatures.
It is threatened by
climate change, which is causing mosquitoes that carry introduced diseases — including avian pox and malaria — to move into the honeycreeper's
higher -
elevations refuges.
But on a planet with a warming
climate, these same adaptations could spell the bird's doom: The ptarmigan's range is severely limited by its sole dependence on alpine habitat, which is shrinking as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, threatening to push the treeline — and the ptarmigan — to ever -
higher elevations, until there's no more room to rise.
• At tree line, butterfly diversity is actually going up, as lower -
elevation species react to the warming
climate by moving upslope to
higher, cooler
elevations.
Collins A, Wilson T. Glaciated scoria cones as
climate and erosion indicators: morphometric analysis of Erebus Volcanic Province, Antarctica, using
high - resolution digital
elevation data.
Possible increased growth and productivity concurrent with
climate oscillations that increase water availability, particularly at
higher elevations and where stand density is low; extreme
high temperatures would have net negative impact, regardless of water availability
At
elevations of 11,000 - 14,000 feet, the severe
climate is marked by
high winds, bright sun and huge temperature swings.
This is western country, and the dryness of the
climate and sagebrush, not to mention lightning strikes in
higher elevations, add to the possibility of fire.
The
climate is generally mild, with temperatures cooler in
higher elevation areas.
The Villa Colonial and the Villa Santa Catarina do not, but are located at a
higher elevation where the
climate is more temperate.
The lake's
high elevation,
climate and isolation means the risk of many diseases common in Central America is relatively low.
The
climate can range from coast side lands drenched with fog in mild winters and summers to inland reaches baked by hot sunshine on long summer days, which, at
higher elevations, can be blanketed with snow in winter.
The Bolaven Plateau is famous for being the coffee region of Laos since it has a
higher elevation and cooler
climate than the rest of the country.
The
high elevation, rich volcanic earth, and mild
climate make it ideal for wine grape growing.
A tropical
climate is experienced along the coastal region of the Yucatan Peninsula and the lower areas of southern Mexico while a temperate
climate is experienced in areas with an
elevation higher than 900 metres (3,000 feet).
Climate change is causing permafrost warming and thawing in
high - latitude regions and in
high -
elevation regions (
high confidence).
Without GHG emissions mitigation, they will blink out just as will numerous other species dependent upon cold
climate conditions in the arctic and at
high elevations around the world.
Gridded values may differ from
climate stations and biases may be present at
high elevations or in areas with low station density (Eum et al., 2014).
High elevation snowpack is assessed from winter mass balance measurements on the South Cascade Glacier from 1960 - 2005 and on Easton Glacier 1990 - 2007 monitored by the North Cascade Glacier
Climate Project.
When I sent him your question, Werner A. Kurz, a leading Canadian scientist, wrote back that while the beetle is indeed native to the region, «it has experienced an expansion in range northward and to
higher elevations as
climate warming has allowed the species to occupy areas that were previously too cold.»
Our warming
climate is helping these insects survive the winter at
higher latitudes and
elevations.
While animal and plant species in temperate latitudes have the option of following their
climate zones either towards the poles or to
higher elevations, tropical species can only head to the hills.
First,
climate change is likely to open new habitats and close others — for example, some mammals have already begun moving to
higher elevations, where possible, to adjust to warming environments.
Scientists already know how
climate change is impacting the Western United States —
higher temperatures have translated to earlier spring snow melts, precipitation is falling more as rain instead of snow at
higher elevations and there's reduced runoff and streamflow.
With respect to why there was a significant increase in tree density over the past several decades, Dolanc offers that the changes in the density and composition of lower -
elevation forests are consistent with fire suppression; but that the density increases in
high -
elevation vegetation types (subalpine forests generally don't burn) are «more likely to be caused by changing
climate.»
To understand the population declines in
high -
elevation meadows on the Tahoe National Forest, I surveyed birds at several low -
elevation breeding sites and examined the
climate data from foothill weather stations.
Climate change projections have been provided in this report for Metro Vancouver and the Capital Regional District from several difference sources: Global
Climate Models (GCMs) directly,
high resolution
elevation - corrected projections from GCMs, and Regional
Climate Models.
Potentially severe loss of current summer range by 2080, as projected by Audubon's
climate model, may be most acute at
high elevations, where meadows and tundra are widely expected to suffer from
climate change.
The risk of
climate - triggered extinctions of species adapted to
high, cool
elevations and
high - latitude conditions also is
high.
Recent meta - analyses indicate that on average, examined terrestrial species have been moving poleward about 1.76 km / yr (reported as 17.6 + 2.9 km / decade), apparently keeping pace with regional temperature change, although species range shifts to
higher elevations have on average lagged behind
climate (Chen et al., 2011).
8 Factor # 2:
Elevation Higher the elevation is, the colder the climate Elevation determines amount of precipitation area
Elevation Higher the
elevation is, the colder the climate Elevation determines amount of precipitation area
elevation is, the colder the
climate Elevation determines amount of precipitation area
Elevation determines amount of precipitation area receives
Elevation • The higher the elevation is, the colder the
Elevation • The
higher the
elevation is, the colder the
elevation is, the colder the
climate.
Draft:
Climate Change Impacts on the Operation of Two
High -
Elevation Hydropower Systems in California.
The notion that we must stop the
climate from changing, in order to preclude people from migrating northward or to
higher elevations as
climates in these places become more comfortable to inhabit, is fringe lunacy, at best.
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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In the MPB, two (or more) generations can be produced per year in warmer
climates («multivoltine» reproduction) while only one half generation per year may occur in more northerly or
higher elevation populations.
I did write a paper I think in 1998 — a long time ago — where we were looking at
climate change at
high elevations over the mountains.
Because of the
higher elevation, the
climate is considerably cooler than Atlanta.