Sentences with phrase «high topography»

Any high topography can act like a speed bump and slow the galloping glaciers.

In the Himalaya, the region of high topography is set back some 80 kilometers north of the active frontal thrust, leading to the conventional wisdom that the Himalaya grow by slip on a ramp beneath the High Himalaya.

In the eastern Alaska Range, higher topography and greater exhumation are found north of the fault, on its convex side - not an expected pattern at all and very puzzling.»

Higher topography could enable glaciation even when other factors work against it, he says.

Not exact matches

The Santa Cruz Mountains appellation was among the first to be defined by mountain topography, following the fog line along the coast to encompass the highest vineyards on the ridge tops as high as 2600 feet elevation.

The Frankfort Park District Commission has hired a Tinley Park architect to handle topography studies and bid specifications for a new park and recreation field near Frankfort Junior High School.

FRANKFORT — The Frankfort Park District Commission has hired a Tinley Park architect to handle topography studies and bid specifications for a new park and recreation field near Frankfort Junior High School.

Imaging with 18F - fluoride positron emission tomography / magnetic resonance imaging (PET / MR), compared to 18F - fluoride positron emission tomography / computed topography (PET / CT), provides more diagnostic information with higher diagnostic certainty.

The team found that SGD was highest in places like the Pacific Northwest, where there is both heavy rainfall and steep topography that leads the groundwater to the ocean.

Four days after its launch on 17 January, the Jason - 3 high - precision ocean altimetry satellite is delivering its first sea surface height measurement data in near - real time for evaluation by engineers from the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EUMETSAT, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and scientists from the international Ocean Surface Topography Science Team.

The narrow mountain range is home to some of the world's most dramatic topography, including 20,320 - foot Denali (Mount McKinley), North America's highest mountain.

Due to the topography of the region, though, air pollution may become trapped in the high mountain valleys of the Wasatch Front — especially during temperature inversions, which typically occur in the winter months.

The map also provides a global view of the highs and lows of Titan's topography, which enabled the scientists to confirm that two locations in the equatorial region of Titan are in fact depressions that could be either ancient, dried seas or cryovolcanic flows.

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).

Wang, Chaudhury and their colleagues reported their results today (Feb. 1) in Nature Physics, a journal of Nature magazine, in an article titled «Directional transport of high - temperature Janus droplets mediated by structural topography.»

To the north, around the Balkh Oasis bordering Uzbekistan, UChicago's Anthony Lauricella and Emily Hammer, now at the University of Pennsylvania, examined extremely high resolution satellite and aerial images that can spot subtle changes in topography as small as 10 centimeters across and 50 centimeters high.

«Titan might have broad - scale highs and lows, which might have formed some time ago, and the rivers have been eroding into that topography ever since, as opposed to having new mountain ranges popping up all the time, with rivers constantly fighting against them.»

The lack of many kinds of data — high - resolution topography and bathymetry along the coasts; measurements of ice cover and thickness; distributions in space and time of the region's fish, birds, and marine mammals — is another.

«This work demonstrates the unique capability of micro-to-nanoscale topographies of the crumpled graphene - Au nanoparticles — higher density, three - dimensional optically active materials — that are further enhanced by the formation of hot spots, bringing the nanoparticles closer,» explained Juyoung Leem, a graduate student and first author of the study, «Mechanically Self - Assembled, Three - Dimensional Graphene?Gold Hybrid Nanostructures for Advanced Nanoplasmonic Sensors,» published in Nano Letters.

Previous versions of the Shuttle Radar Topography data set only covered the US in high resolution, the rest of the world was in lower resolution.

A high - resolution image from the CTX camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is draped over topography data to create a bird's - eye view of martian gullies, features thought to represent relatively recent flow of water on the surface of Mars.

The full range of topography on Mars is about 19 miles (30 kilometers), one and a half times the range of elevations found on Earth, The most curious aspect of the map is the striking difference between the planet's low, smooth Northern Hemisphere and the heavily cratered Southern Hemisphere,» which sits, on average, about three miles (five kilometers) higher than the north.

Imaging and Analyzing Southern California's Active Faults with High - Resolution Topography January 25 - 26, 2016 Arizona State University (ASU), Tempe, Arizona Sponsored by Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC), OpenTopography, UNAVCO, and EarthScope

The Venus Emissivity, Radio Science, InSAR, Topography, and Spectroscopy mission (VERITAS) VERITAS would produce global, high - resolution topography and imaging of Venus» surface and produce the first maps of deformation and global surface coTopography, and Spectroscopy mission (VERITAS) VERITAS would produce global, high - resolution topography and imaging of Venus» surface and produce the first maps of deformation and global surface cotopography and imaging of Venus» surface and produce the first maps of deformation and global surface composition.

Imaging and Analyzing Active Faults with High - Resolution Topography May 2 - 3, 2016, California Geological Survey facility in Sacramento, California Sponsored by OpenTopography and California Geological Survey

Workshop: Teaching Earth Science With High - Resolution Topography August 5 - 7, 2009 San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC), University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA OpenTopography Workshop building on work done at the 2008 TeacherTech Workshop at SDSC

Applications of High Resolution Topography to Geologic Hazards in Utah September 19 - 20, 2017 - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT Supported by: Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing, Utah Geological Survey, University of Utah, Department of Geology and Geophysics

2017 GSA short course: High Resolution Topography and 3D Imaging II: Introduction to Structure from Motion (SfM) Photogrammetry October 21, 2017 - Seattle, WA Supported by: UNAVCO, OpenTopography

An afternoon with high resolution topography and point clouds: demonstration of OpenTopography and CloudCompare 29 March 2017 — Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers du CNRS (at the University of Rennes, Rennes, France) Organized by the LIDAR platform topo - bathymétrique Nantes - Rennes

Imaging and Analyzing Active Faults with High - Resolution Topography April 18 - 19, 2016, UNAVCO facility in Boulder, Colorado Sponsored by OpenTopography, UNAVCO, NCALM, and EarthScope

Commentary, ideas, notes on active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, earthquake geology, natural hazards, cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences, high resolution topography.

Mpumalanga's topography is a varied one, comprising of the Highveld (high lying) and the Lowveld (low lying) regions.

A spur of the Great Dividing Range juts towards the coast here, providing diverse topography on the eastern side of the Pacific Highway with some notable high points.

A new itinerary from the mountain biking pros at Sacred Rides takes on the Alpine topography along the Swiss - Italian border, with incredible village - to - village rides over high - elevation passes.

Our deep walls, shallow banks, and varied topography offer ideal training locations for you to complete this course to the highest level and your certification will be recorded on the International PADI database.

Commentary, ideas, notes on active tectonics, tectonic geomorphology, earthquake geology, natural hazards, cyberinfrastructure for the geosciences, high resolution topography.

The explicitly urban and local references of Bay Area abstraction centered at CSFA — Jefferson's paintings titled with street names, Lobdell's agrarian aerial views, Strong's topographies of Bolinas Peninsula, Wharf Road, and Harrison Street — have the feel of Theocritan idylls in some inverse metonymy evoking the great plains, high desert, and mountain ranges of the vanishing West.

The exhibition focuses not just on topography but also on marijuana (legal in Colorado), which represents another way «to get to a higher point,» Ms. Darrow said, «to a more evolved place.»

Flanken by the Caucasus Mountains on the highest plateau in Dagestan, the village of Tsovkra - 1 has parlayed the perils of its topography into a peculiar claim to fame: that every able - bodied member of its roughly four - hundred - person population can walk a tightrope.

This creates a topography in high - contrast colors, the edges nearly vibrating, that gives the disorienting impression of flatness and extreme depth at once.

Carol Finn, of the U.S. Geological Survey, a co-author on the paper, says, «Resolving the contradiction of the Gamburtsev high elevation and youthful Alpine topography but location on the East Antarctic craton by piecing together the billion year history of the region was exciting and challenging.

Hence, while high resolution global climate models (GCMs) and many downscaling methods can provide high resolution data, and add value in, for example, regions of complex topography, it is not a given that there will be more value in the final climate change message.

What was also very noticeable was that due to the topography of the country (many high mountains and steep valleys) many of the solar power installations were in deep shade and were unlikely to come back into the sun until March, or at the most would only get an hour or so of sunlight (should it be sunny of course)

I may add that these two companies (Lihir and Ramu Nickel) and its consultants have argued before the Court that, because the site is located in a seismically active and high rainfall zone with sharp topography, a conventional land - based tailings storage facility (TSF) is too expensive and environmentally unsuitable.

The region has relatively low - lying topography, allowing a stronger synoptic - scale influence on temperature variations than over the high, East Antarctic plateau (Bromwich and Wang 2008).

To calculate the climatology of the province at a high spatial resolution, an interpolation procedure that accounts for the effects of topography is needed, for which the PRISM climate group at Oregon State University has developed PRISM.

High - resolution mapping of the topography of the ocean floor is now being added to the ice mission's repertoire.

Not only does this particular topography present breathtaking beauty in the landscape, it also inhibits the migration of animals in the valley and thus keeps population density in the area high.

Natural gas prices however, are among the highest in IEA Member countries owing to the topography, market size, low connection density and the fragmented market structure.

Though normally used to provide access to high - altitude tourist attractions and ski spots, the city of Haifa has decided to link itself up vertically with Israel's first public cable car service.Blessed with challenging topography and years of questionable urban planning, Haifa is a city badly in need of creative transportation solutions.