Sentences with phrase «higher elevation on»

Regions of higher elevation on the ice sheet do not receive an abundance of precipitation, and Summit Station tends to be drier still.

Previous research has shown that plants at the highest elevations on mountains (and in the polar regions) have been shifting to adjust to global warming.

If this were the case, females at high elevation on each mountain are more likely to encounter a male from low elevation from the same mountain rather than a male from high elevation from a different mountain.

Thie highest elevation on the tour is at Chichicastenango, around 7,000 feet.

Because this building is at the highest elevation on our property, at night you can look across a valley to the Platanar Volcano and see dusting of lights from the local towns and villages.

At this point, the highest elevation on the route, you enjoy your first inspirational view of Machu Picchu.

It's also the town with the highest elevation on Interstate 80 at 8,000 feet above sea level.

Since we were trying to amass money to do something significant, the traditional school of thinking would have been to talk about product quality; you know, talk about the fact that all the beans are grown at a high elevation on the flanks of volcanoes usually 10 degrees north or south of the equator, and so on.

Not exact matches

The roughly 20 million acres that the agency manages «will not begin to see bigger campaign fires for some time,» since there's still snow on the ground in some higher elevation areas.

The city sits on a high plateau at an elevation of 4,475 feet.

One study reported that traders made significantly higher profits on days when their morning testosterone levels were above their daily average, and that increased variability in profits and uncertainty in the market was reliably associated with elevations in their cortisol levels27.

The words «raised thee up» do not mean that God had raised him up from birth for this purpose: they refer to his elevation to the highest throne on earth.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

Anyway Jonathan was a prime example of loyalty which sounds like royalty, but has nothing to do with Kings and Queens as loyalty is not high on their agenda, that can also be said for people in high places who lose their sense of direction through their elevation, ending up with their heads in the clouds as did Gods chosen Kings Saul and David.

What aspects of Paul's treatise on love in his first letter to the Corinthians do you give the highest elevation (1 Corinthians 13:1 - 13)?

IRRI also gives support in national strategy and framework planning for hybrid rice development; research on abiotic stress tolerance particularly submergence, drought, and low temperature damage in high elevation areas; support for the implementation of integrated crop and resource management in the target areas through the Irrigated Rice Research Consortium (IRRC) and the Indonesian Rice Knowledge Bank; and support of dissemination of post harvest technologies.

But if you go south and higher in elevation, full sun with all its ultraviolet light can burn the crap out of your plants, causing sunscald on the pods and leaf drop on more sensitive varieties like habaneros, which need some shading.

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.

After our picnic, we continued north on Route 108, which unbeknownst to me is the «notch road» and goes through the Smugglers Notch, which is a mountain pass, with an elevation of 2,170 feet (660 meters), separating Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in the Green Mountains, from Spruce Peak and the Sterling Range.

And because the OCC campus is on the highest elevation in Oklahoma County, and the track is built on an incline above the campus, and its second curve faces the southwest — whence the winds normally come — it can be semiscientifically deduced that the second curve at the OCC track is just about the windiest corner in the U.S. in early spring.

The air pressure atop Mount McKinley is lower than is found at the same elevation on other high mountains in temperate latitudes.

There was a lot of elevation gain on the first half (not to mention the altitude was 4,000 ft. higher than where I live) and I definitely did a fair amount of walking on that one, but that was OK with me.

We've been on hikes where we start out in 80 - degree sunny weather and then a mountain storm kicks up and we get higher up in elevation and end up hiking in 40 - degree rain.

The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, has congratulated the President - elect, Nana Akufo - Addo on his elevation to the high office of the land.

Red areas on the topographic image indicate high elevations, and blue or purple areas indicate low elevation.

One species can flourish around tiny hollows where a bit more phosphorus accumulates; another can tolerate the dryness of a slightly higher elevation; and yet another may thrive on the midslope.

The island sits directly on the equator, at sea level and far from any high elevation, so what happens there is a good indication of what's happening in the wider tropical Pacific Ocean.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

In the graphic below, the darkest blue regions represent the highest elevations and the white areas represent the lowest on the continent.

On other Hawaiian islands, only high - elevation areas have generally been cool enough to keep out the mosquitoes that spread avian diseases.

«To be on the beach and to be on the water costs a lot more money, and the cheaper parts of town were furthest from the beach — but it just turns out that the cheapest parts of town farthest from the beach are the highest elevation, and now they're worth a lot more than they used to be,» Keenan said.

«The point is, all these cities have been built on low - lying sandy barrier islands, mostly with elevations no higher than ten feet above sea level,» Leatherman says.

While higher - elevation lodgepole pines are historically adapted to stand - replacing fires — their serotinous cones only open under high heat — the Forest Service is concerned that ponderosas will not regenerate in those areas on their own, she said.

The rugged, high elevations of the Santa Ritas would be permitted to burn, and key structures in the urban interface would be protected by controlled fires on their perimeters.

Box pointed to nearly ice - sheet - wide melting on Greenland, with extensive surface melting documented for first time at the highest elevations of ice sheet, and the longest melt season since satellite observations began in 1979.

Ancient river gravels embedded in travertine high on the canyon walls can be dated to reveal «the time when the river was at that old elevation.»

With high metabolic rates and thick fur (including inside their ears and on the bottoms of their feet), they are well adapted to the cold temperatures at high elevations.

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.

He also noted that the study leaves scientists with food for thought on the role of elevation: Squirrel resistance decreased and venom activity increased in areas with higher elevation.

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).

«On Sulawesi, there is a lot of ground to cover and most of it hasn't been surveyed before, especially at high elevation,» Esselstyn said.

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

Goordial, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill University has spent the past four years looking for signs of active microbial life in permafrost soil taken from one of the coldest, oldest and driest places on Earth: in University Valley, located in the high elevation McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica, where extremely cold and dry conditions have persisted for over 150,000 years.

At lower elevations, plateau dwellers simply incorporated a bit of barley into their millet - heavy diet, but the high - altitude farmers appear to have abandoned millet altogether and relied almost completely on the new, hardier grain, the team reports online today in Science.

But other genetic data suggests that at least one high - elevation gene appeared in Tibetans only between 2750 and 5500 years ago — more in line with the appearance of high - elevation agriculture on the plateau.

Seems the bears snack on the fruits that are found at the foot of the mountains in spring and then make the climb to higher elevations to enjoy young leaves and buds and flowers, particularly as the season progresses.

Mission scientists speculate that perhaps methane in the atmosphere on Pluto behaves like water in the air on Earth, building up on the ground as frost at the highest (and coldest) elevations.

Sampling song from males at high and low elevations from two different mountains allowed us to (i) assess the presence of any differences in song structure at different elevations and (ii) consider the potential mechanism generating variation or song dialects on a small spatial scale.

Here we assessed the song structure of male mountain chickadees using two exemplars of high and low elevation habitats on two different mountains in the Sierra Nevada with similar mixed - conifer forest structure.

Mosses with the «dead» radiocarbon were found at high elevations, on pedestals of rock with persistent ice caps that are now slowly melting away.