Sentences with phrase «higher elevations where»

Changes in precipitation become more important at in colder locations and higher elevations where they determine whether any or how much precipitation falls.

Thermal energy lifts water out of the ocean and puts it at higher elevations where it has potential energy which is turned into work as water flows through rivers moving sediments around and such.

Trek up into higher elevations where the weather is cooler, huge trees shade camping spots, and you can be one with nature.

The result is that save for a few species of native birds that are tolerant of the parasite, susceptible birds are relegated to higher elevations where parasite transmission and mosquito populations are lower.

Thus, the fire season in Montana typically extends from late June through October at lower elevations, with shorter seasons at higher elevations where snowpack can persist into July (Keane et al. forthcoming).

They scouted steep mountainsides where the tree species currently lives and sites at higher elevations where the tree is likely to expand.

The glaciers are disappearing or shrinking to very high elevations where colder temperatures slow melting.

The Villa Colonial and the Villa Santa Catarina do not, but are located at a higher elevation where the climate is more temperate.

So we knew for civilization and a technological economy to work in the southwestern US that water resources, which were abundant in high elevations where people didn't live and came in short cycles of 4 years dry and 1 year wet, with a deluge every so often, could be developed to grow cities and economies.

This process also releases energy in the form of heat, an effect that takes place only at high elevations where the condensation occurs.

Not exact matches

In fact Compte (one of the founders of positivism) believed that the highest elevation of human civilazation is the point where people work together and merely through cmulative observed knowdeldge, free of any external forces, lay out the logical and proper way to live.

choice of bird, as many populations are not migratory, and those that do winter in the northern tropics are found in lowlands and avoid higher elevations, where most coffee would be grown.

This decrease in drag causes the baseball to travel farther which explains why games are so high - scoring in Coors Field where the elevation is 5,280 feet.

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.

Anyone is better than thrice - married Rudy, who used taxpayer money to pick up his mistress and could not seem to remember there were no mountains in Monroe county, where the highest elevation is about 800 ft.

The highest accumulations are expected in the higher elevations of the region where the air will be cold enough to support snow.

But the researchers say that the coldest place of all might be nearby Dome Argus, where a higher elevation could mean temperatures fall beyond -100 °C.

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 apparent decline is greatest around the ice sheet's edges, but it also is occurring in the high elevation interior known as the dry snow zone, where the reflectivity is effectively reset each winter by new snowfall.

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.

«Interestingly, the culinary uses correspond to the elevations where the potatoes grow — soup potatoes have the lowest elevation, floury potatoes in mid elevation and freezing potatoes are the highest.»

If Titan's craters are being swallowed by soggy ground, then the ones we do see should appear more often at higher elevations, where the ground would be drier.

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.

Some aircraft with lower temperature tolerances will far worse than others, and certain airports — those with shorter runways, in hotter parts of the world or at higher elevations, where the air is already thinner — will suffer more.

Today, most of the remaining native forest birds are endangered, and they survive only at elevations where colder - temperatures limit the spread of mosquitoes (4,500 feet or higher).

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

Transmission of the parasite occurs at lower elevations where temperatures are warmer and drops off at higher altitudes.

And it's only in the extremely high - elevation grasslands where nomads drink the hard - to - produce butter tea regularly.

Subaru has dropped the turbo four due to lack of buyer interest, although it strikes us as desirable for higher - elevation regions where the Outback is so popular.

Robles Point is probably the highest natural elevation on the caye, where coral boulders have been piled into a 4.5 yard high storm ridge.

It is the only island in Galapagos where tourists can readily experience the interior and higher elevations of a Galapagos island.

Picnic tables are also available both by the bluffs and throughout the state park where most of the higher elevation jogging, hiking and biking trails begin.

I choose this station in Bavaria as an example because it has one of the longest uninterrupted records from a high elevation (1833.72 m) where, if you search the web for a picture of the observatory, you can see trees growing next to it.

Warming temperatures allow the native beetle to thrive in previously inhospitable high - elevation forests, where the insect bores into and kills whitebark pine trees.

Yes, and look where most tree ring series that are used in dendroclimatology come from: wind - swept high elevation rocky outcrops and ridges.

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.

Gregory's model, the subject of the first two links and referred to in the third, suggests that as ice is lost, the ice cap in central Greenland, high enough today to cause appreciable snowfall, would end up at lower elevations where the air is warmer.

This effect has been particularly pronounced at middle - elevation regions where wintertime temperatures are more «marginal» for frozen precipitation than at colder, higher elevations.

Now, being a curious bunny, Eli wanted to see where this was, and he had a map from «Trends in twentieth century tree growth at high elevations in the Sierra Nevada and White Mountains, USA from Bunn, Graumlich and Urban to go on.

However, at higher elevations in the atmosphere (stratosphere), where it occurs naturally, it is needed to block harmful UV light.

The advance increases the glaciers area at low elevation where ablation is highest, returning the glacier to equilibrium.

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.

At higher elevations, where the air is colder, this increase in moisture has a much stronger greenhouse effect, following a logarithmic relationship.

Dechert also notes that Bhutan's commitment to EVs offers a testing ground for EV performance at high elevations, where internal combustion engines face compromised propulsion, while battery electric vehicles may face challenges of their own — most notably steep terrain and extreme weather.

And so they are gathering up young fish, stowing them in special, oxygenated backpacks, and carrying them to a higher - elevation lake miles away where Muhlfeld says they have a fighting chance.

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.

This is especially helpful when navigating to areas of higher elevation, where it can be trickier to remember the way up.

Where is the highest elevation?

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