Sentences with phrase «lack of vegetation»

Northeastern cities, with their abundance of concrete and asphalt and relative lack of vegetation, tend to have higher temperatures than surrounding regions (the «urban heat island» effect).

Thus a desert is not defined by temperature, but by lack of vegetation.

[S] cientists know that the density of buildings, the absorption of light by those buildings, and the relative lack of vegetation in cities are major contributors to the urban heat island effect.

Lack of vegetation makes them brighter - looking.

The next summer we drove down the gulf coast of Baja California, which is excessively perfect in its lack of vegetation, inland at Bahía San Luis -LSB-...]

The next summer we drove down the gulf coast of Baja California, which is excessively perfect in its lack of vegetation, inland at Bahía San Luis Gonzaga to the Pacific.

There are whole populations in the Northern latitudes that spend most of their lives in a perpetual state of ketosis due to the lack of vegetation available to them.

In fact, further north, Gobabeb is the location of a land - surface temperature validation site — chosen because of its featureless arid nature and lack of vegetation.

Not exact matches

We were struck immediately by the vast difference in vegetation, or lack thereof, and the remoteness of the Big Island.

The Doves also lack a shortwave infrared band, which on Landsat can distinguish between different types of vegetation.

Prior to this study, «the understanding of permafrost feedbacks to climate change had been limited by a lack of data examining warming effects on both vegetation and permafrost carbon simultaneously,» said Dr. Natali.

The lack of surrounding vegetation makes for a quick and easy getaway from predators, such as civets and pythons.

These so - called urban heat islands result from various factors, such as population density, surface sealing, thermal radiation of buildings, industry, and transport as well as lacking vegetation.

But if spotted, the lack of surrounding vegetation makes for a quick and easy getaway.

In the States, of course, these elevated landscapes would be above the snow line, lacking vegetation.

Compare the two photos below using the following criteria: The height and shape of land; Any surface water (or land of) Any vegetation cover or lack of it.

The lack of green vegetation has also driven hordes of Odocoileus texanus, aka Texas White tail deer, to the roadside in search of the only suitable grub for miles.

They could no longer grow food for their children because nutrients in the soil were depleted; they had no access to firewood, which was their main source of energy; livestock suffered because there was no vegetation to graze on; and streams were drying up or were polluted by soil runoff, resulting in a lack of drinking water.

Unlike a lot of inner city hostels that lack a garden and pleasant surroundings, rooms at Aussie Woolshed Backpackers spread over three different buildings, situated within a large garden, surrounded by ponds, tropical vegetation, palm trees and gum trees.

The average relative humidity in cities is usually several percent lower than that of adjacent rural areas, primarily because of increased runoff of precipitation and the lack of evapotranspiration from vegetation in urban areas.

Surface temperature is largely affected by Wind direction combined with humidity, cloudiness, rain (and vegetation or lack of in the past few months).

Neither you nor your reference proves any error in my explanation that Earth would be just as hot or hotter than the present if there were no water, water vapour, clouds, vegetation, carbon dioxide or other radiating gases in it atmosphere which would thus have no albedo due to lack of clouds, and which rocky surface would have emissivity less than 0.88.