Sentences with phrase «land more moist»
That makes the land more moist, because cold air holds less water.
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But the air above cleared land warms faster and therefore rises more quickly, drawing the moist air from surrounding forested areas away.
It does mean air is apt to be warmer and moister and with prospects for more snow on nearby land in the Fall.
The warm moist air is readily advected onto land and caught up in weather systems as part of the hydrological cycle, where it contributes to more intense precipitation events that are widely observed to be occurring (IPCC 2007; Trenberth 2011a; Groisman and Knight 2008; Min et al. 2011; Pall et al. 2011).