Sentences with phrase «latitude regions»

The tropics and high - latitude regions typically take the longest to recover, the results show.

Numerous model simulations reveal that this circulation is quite sensitive to the freshwater budget in the high - latitude regions where deep waters form.

The results suggest that profound changes can be expected at high - latitude regions regardless of the climate change mitigation policies.

On the opposing side, as high - latitude regions warm, plants will grow more quickly, which means they'll take in more carbon from the atmosphere.

Much of the high northern latitude regions are projected to receive increases in precipitation together with large temperature rises.

Negative impacts of climate change on crop yields have been more common than positive impacts (some positive trends are evident in some high latitude regions).

The Coffeeberry ® fruit grows in high altitude, low latitude regions of the world where the sun's rays are strongest.

Emissions that, according to «global warming theory», are meant to effect the poles greater than mid latitude regions due to the lack of humidity enhancing the theorised CO2 feedback.

Climate modelling results have pointed to high - latitude regions as areas of particular importance and ecological vulnerability to global climate change.

The amplitude increased by roughly 50 percent across high latitude regions north of 45 ° N, compared with previous aircraft observations from the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Surface number density of the hard sources is only slightly higher than that measured at the high Galactic latitude regions, indicating that majority of the hard sources are background AGNs.

Twofold or threefold UV dose increases were reached in the 55 ° — 65 ° southern latitude region during vortex overpasses».

This can be a critical issue, since the northern high - latitude regions not only include very important ecosystems, but they could also face a substantial increase of human population in a changing world with a warming climate.

But McKenzie notes that the country still gets less UV radiation than unpolluted low - latitude regions of Africa, Australia, and South America.

However, these studies rely on datasets consisting almost entirely of information from northern Eurasian populations — those that reside mostly in higher latitude regions.

The dominant factor has been the gradual rebound of high - latitude regions that were covered with glaciers until 10,000 years ago.

Previous Planck analyses did not show the amount of dust polarization in that patch of sky or other high - galactic - latitude regions of the Milky Way because of the relative sparseness of dust and low signal compared to noise in these regions (see «Milky Way map skirts question of gravitational waves»).

But the belt hugs Earth more tightly above high latitude regions, overlapping with satellites in low - Earth orbit.

Professor Andrew Shepherd, also of the University of Leeds, who led the study, said: «Thanks to its novel instrument design and to its near - polar orbit, CryoSat allows us to survey coastal and high - latitude regions of Antarctica that were beyond the capability of past altimeter missions, and it seems that these regions are crucial for determining the overall imbalance.»

In some higher - latitude regions, extreme snow events became more intense, depositing 10 percent more snow, even under scenarios of relatively high global warming.

The length of the frost - free season has increased in most mid - and high - latitude regions of both hemispheres.

The regions that exhibit cooling are mainly in the shallow equatorial areas and in some high - latitude regions.

With changes in the Arctic so pronounced this year, it's important that attribution efforts are channelled into these high latitude regions.

In the first major study to examine the effects of climate change on ocean fisheries, a team of researchers from UBC and Princeton University discovered that catch potential will fall 40 percent in the tropics and may increase 30 to 70 percent in high latitude regions, affecting ocean food supply throughout the world by 2055.

The main goal for the project is to improve regional climate prediction by better understanding of the climate teleconnection between the Arctic / Atlantic and the lower - latitude regions and to strengthen the partnership between Norway and China in climate research.

While there may be some positive effects in temperate and high - latitude regions, other parts of the world remain extremely vulnerable.

The regions that exhibit cooling are mainly in the shallow equatorial areas and in some high - latitude regions.

The greatest warming in 2007 occurred in the Arctic, and neighboring high latitude regions.

Li et al. also report that the vast majority of the observed rise in NPP occurred in the middle and high latitude regions, with 61.1 percent of the increase occurring between 30 and 60 degrees of latitude and 26.4 percent between 60 and 90 degrees of latitude of both hemispheres (see Figure 1c).

The high - latitude regions of planet Earth shuffle and convert energy between phases and exchange heat between ocean and air.

Because global warming signals are amplified in high - latitude regions, the potential for permafrost thawing and consequent greenhouse gas releases is thus large.

The study also found that soil in high - latitude regions could shift from being a sink to a source of carbon dioxide by the end of the 21st century as the soil warms in response to climate change.

Researchers [including - can you believe it - yet another Vladimir] of Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc., the University of Massachusetts and the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, wrote in Environmental Research Letters how they think climate change leads to precipitation increases in different high latitude regions, especially in Eurasia.