Sentences with phrase «land near the coast»

A surface current warms or cools the air above it, influencing the climate of the land near the coast.

15 Surface Currents A surface current warms or cools the air above it, influencing the climate of the land near the coast.

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The agreement with the Haisla would allow for the lease or sale of up to 700 hectares of Crown land near the Douglas Channel by the District of Kitimat, on B.C.'s northern coast.

The concept of holy family in Greece flowered into the Eleusinian Mysteries, religious events celebrated on the Aegean Coast near Athens long before people speaking Greek (the Kurgan invaders) had entered that land.

A barge carrying 2.5 million gallons of gasoline ran aground on the Hudson River near the coast of Dutchmen's Landing Park after veering off course and striking rocks this morning.

During the Stone Age, this section of land would have been nowhere near the coast.

However, lingering near the coast where it has been, Hurricane Harvey maintained a healthy energy supply and has been able to continue picking up moisture and dumping it over land through sustained and intense rainfall.

A layer of red clay soil seemed to be washing over the entire countryside, roads were flooded and seemingly disintegrating before our eyes, and the off - road trails that our Land Rover hosts had laid out in the dunes and rocky creek beds on the Atlantic coast near Essaouira were challenging enough to require multiple spotters.

Flying in, not as I've done from England and Europe in a jumbo jet with Greenland off the starboard side, down the Scotia coast with Halifax below, but flying in and making my first contact off the Carolina coast near the 37th meridian, where the English landed, equidistant from the Catholic French in Canada and the Spanish Jesuits in Florida.

«Identifying the threads that connect these parasites from wild and domestic land animals to marine mammals helps us to see ways that those threads might be cut... by, for example, managing feral cat and opossum populations, reducing run - off from urban areas near the coast, monitoring water quality and controlling erosion to prevent parasites from entering the marine food chain.»

Then, to wrap things up, we stopped in at Hood River Organic near the riverside town of Hood River, an organic orchard and farm run by East Coast ex-pat Dan Thall, who gave us a tour of his land.

Sits on a thin strip of land, the Pachira Lodge is situated on the Caribbean Coast of Costa Rica near the National Park of Tortuguero.

Villa Kalyani is a spectacular five bedroom property resting on 2,250 - square - metres of land, just 500 metres from Berawa Beach near Canggu on Bali's south - west coast.

Point Lookout at North Stradbroke Island and the headlands at Point Arkwright near Coolum on the Sunshine Coast are excellent spots for land - based watching.

Exciting Cabrera Ocean View Land near Playa Grande on the evergreen North Coast of the DR.. This Cabrera Ocean View Land...

Villa Kalyani, meaning «beautiful `, is a spectacular property resting on 2400 square meters of land, just 800 meters from the beach near Canggu on Bali «s southwest coast.

His return to the West Coast that fall was dictated primarily, he said, by «financial survival,» although he had not fared very well in trying to find teaching work when he had first landed in San Francisco («It was the nearest big city») in 1941, following eight years of state college teaching in Washington.

Peter: I will concede that you could have very cold air blowing over the ocean from the land, but a) this tends to be localized near to the coast, and b) the air will warm, but as a result of the ocean being a lot warmer, not as a result of the ocean freezing In regards to a: I am not sure that it would always be «localized near to the coast».

I will concede that you could have very cold air blowing over the ocean from the land, but a) this tends to be localized near to the coast, and b) the air will warm, but as a result of the ocean being a lot warmer, not as a result of the ocean freezing.

Most interesting is that the about monthly variations correlate with the lunar phases (peak on full moon) The Helsinki Background measurements 1935 The first background measurements in history; sampling data in vertical profile every 50 - 100m up to 1,5 km; 364 ppm underthe clouds and above Haldane measurements at the Scottish coast 370 ppmCO2 in winds from the sea; 355 ppm in air from the land Wattenberg measurements in the southern Atlantic ocean 1925-1927 310 sampling stations along the latitudes of the southern Atlantic oceans and parts of the northern; measuring all oceanographic data and CO2 in air over the sea; high ocean outgassing crossing the warm water currents north (> ~ 360 ppm) Buchs measurements in the northern Atlantic ocean 1932 - 1936 sampling CO2 over sea surface in northern Atlantic Ocean up to the polar circle (Greenland, Iceland, Spitsbergen, Barents Sea); measuring also high CO2 near Spitsbergen (Spitsbergen current, North Cape current) 364 ppm and CO2 over sea crossing the Atlantic from Kopenhagen to Newyork and back (Brements on a swedish island Lundegards CO2 sampling on swedish island (Kattegatt) in summer from 1920 - 1926; rising CO2 concentration (+7 ppm) in the 20s; ~ 328 ppm yearly average

As a former pilot, I can testify to its effects, and even in fairly benign weather there can be «interesting» changes in wind speed, direction & temperature, particularly near the coast, when cool sea breezes can push warm air from the land upwards.

Detailed impacts, however, will vary strongly from region to region and coast to coast and therefore can not be easily generalized, as changing mean and extreme coastal water levels depend on a combination of near shore and offshore processes, related to climatic but also non-climatic anthropogenic factors, such as natural land movement arising from tectonics, volcanism or compaction; land subsidence due to anthropogenic extraction of underground resources; and changes in coastal morphology resulting from sediment transport induced by natural and / or anthropogenic factors.

A note of caution: To avoid erroneous ice concentration along coasts (satellite signal mixed from land and ocean), near coastal - areas have to be excluded.

«Partly this [increase in damages] is due to local land - use policies, partly to incentives such as government - subsidized insurance, but mostly to the simple fact that people like being on the coast and near rivers,» Pielke, Jr. explains.

Areas near land may show some ice coverage where there is not any because the sensor's resolution is not fine enough to distinguish ice from land when a pixel overlaps the coast.