Sentences with phrase «humid tropics»

At night, the clouds in the humid tropics absorb and re-emit longwave radiation back to the Earth which has the effect of increasing nightime temperatures.

«In the daytime, the humid tropics have more clouds than the dry desert, and they tend to block and reflect back to Space some of the shortwave radiation in direct sunlight, which would limit the increase in daytime temperatures.»

The alerts are currently operational for Peru, the Republic of Congo, and Kalimantan in Indonesia, and will eventually be expanded to the rest of the humid tropics.

Thus, nights in the humid tropics are warmer than nights in deserts.

The region of greatest solar heating at the surface in the humid tropics corresponds to areas of deep cumulonimbus convection.

This species should be much more widely grown in the humid tropics.

The existing dams are preponderantly outside of the humid tropics, and among existing dams most data are from those in non-tropical regions.

Roughly it is estimated that every tree planted in the humid tropics absorbs 50 pounds (22 kg) of carbon dioxide every year for at least 40 years — each tree will absorb 1 ton of CO2 over its lifetime!

Investigating strategies for sustainable vegetable food crop system in three agro ecological zones of the humid tropics area of Cameroon

«Drought is indeed important for species distribution, even in the humid tropics,» Engelbrecht says.

The role of bull's - eye size in UV protection does not necessarily discount other environmental factors correlated with latitude; for example, ornithologists have argued that Gloger's rule arises because darker pigmentation comes from a compound that protects feathers from bacteria in the wet, humid tropics.

Impacts in Borneo are exemplary for other biodiversity hotspots in the humid tropics, for example, the Amazon.

Not exact matches

«We've shown that under clean and humid conditions, like those that exist over the ocean and some land in the tropics, tiny aerosols have a big impact on weather and climate and can intensify storms a great deal,» said Fan, an expert on the effects of pollution on storms and weather.

«Our cooling technology can be easily tailored for all types of weather conditions, from humid climate in the tropics to arid climate in the deserts.

By examining the correlation between humidity and the role of tone in more than 3700 languages, scientists found that tonal languages are remarkably rare in arid regions like Central Europe, whereas languages with complex tone pitches are prevalent in relatively humid regions such as the tropics, subtropical Asia, and Central Africa.

THERE may come a point, if the world warms enough, when parts of the tropics will become so hot and humid that humans will not be able to survive.

This mold thrives on crops stored in warm, humid places, so be wary of peanuts grown in the tropics.

Is less poleward transport of heat by the Gulf Stream as the AMOC weakens a positive feedback for global warming, since that energy will escape more slowly in the humid (higher water vapor GHG effect) tropics than near the poles?

During subsequent interglacials, when humid conditions returned to the tropics, the forests expanded and were repopulated by plants and animals from the species - rich refuges.»

As far as water vapor in the tropics, they even say» In the humid equatorial regions, where there is so much water vapour in the air that the greenhouse effect is very large, adding a small additional amount of CO2 or water vapour has only a small direct impact on downward infrared radiation.»

Huber has shown that lethally hot and humid conditions could spread over much of the tropics if global temperatures rise more than 7 °C.

This solution replaces conventional annual crop production in humid and semi-arid tropics.

Climate scientists think that a main weakness of their models is their limited ability to simulate vertical air movement, such as convection in the tropics that lifts humid air into the atmosphere.

13 21.2 World Climates Humid Tropical Climates Tropical Wet and Dry • Tropical wet and dry climates are climates that transition between the wet tropics and the subtropical steppes.

Really humid climates (like true tropics) are not generally recommended.

The warm, humid climate of the tropics offers perfect growth conditions for oil palms.

I spent some my childhood in the tropics, in Belize actually, where Christmas was hot and humid.