Sentences with phrase «less land mass»

Partly this has to do with changes in ocean circulation taking warmer water deeper and partly as the result of the southern hemisphere having less land mass and more ocean — where the ocean has a higher thermal inertia, meaning that it takes longer for those waters to warm.

Temperatures are considerably more volatile in the Northern Hemisphere, an expected result because there's considerably less land mass in the South to add complexity to weather systems.

Not exact matches

To put the figures into perspective, even if England's urban areas were expanded by ten per cent, this could be achieved by only using less than one per cent of the total land mass.

The NYPD said in a statement that «crime in city parks is less than 1 % of all reported crime in New York City,» while «City parks represent 14 % of New York City land mass, which makes them one of the safest places in the city and the country.»

So one interesting factoid in the article is that although that huge land mass that we are talking about seems just, you know, mind boggling, according to the article, it's actually less land [than] that's [what's] required to run 300 equivalent energy output coal plants.

The argument is that the increased separation of the Antarctic land mass from South America led to the creation of the powerful Antarctic Circumpolar Current which acted as a kind of water barrier and effectively blocked the warmer, less salty waters from the North Atlantic and Central Pacific from moving southwards towards the Antarctic land mass leading to the isolation of the Antarctic land mass and lowered temperatures which allowed the ice sheets to form.

If these polar continents lose a mile or more of ice from their land surface, there will be less mass, and so some of the water now attracted to those polar land masses will dissipate, and go elsewhere.

In northern latitudes the reverse is happening — land is rising after being liberated from the mass of the ice sheets, again normally by less than 1mm / yr, but in places over 5mm / yr (Peltier et al. 2015).

Scientists said the fossils will help fill in important gaps about how dinosaurs evolved in Africa during a period when the continents had neared the end of their shift from a single giant land mass to where they are, more or less, today.

The reality is that Bali is perfectly safe to travel even in case the volcano erupts, except for a very small area around Mount Agung which represents less than 5 % of the land mass of the Island.

If you do half board, some islands have other eating options, though many of the nicest resorts take up the entire land mass, so you'll end up buying food at the resort or just eating less frequently.

Which may help explain how it has managed to pack such a huge creative punch (including more than 40 galleries) into a less - than -10-mile mass of land.

bozzza - The differences in the Arctic are perhaps 1/4 the ocean thermal mass as global ocean averages, small overall size (the smallest ocean), being almost surrounded by land (which warms faster), more limited liquid interchanges due to bottlenecking than the Antarctic, and very importantly considerable susceptibility to positive albedo feedbacks; as less summer ice is present given current trends, solar energy absorbed by the Arctic ocean goes up very rapidly.

The Antarctic Vortex is larger, stronger and more stable than its counterpart to the north partially due to less disturbance from the land mass below.

I would hope that this is apparent to readers without further explanation from me here by virtue of obviously greater land mass areas as one moves northwards and to a lesser extent southwards from the equator.

Although urban areas occupy less than 1 % of China's land mass, the majority of China's observing stations are situated in proximity to urban areas, and thus some of the recorded warming is undoubtedly the consequence of rapid urban development, particularly since the late 1970s.

The MWP is better explained by the Arctic Amplification effect whereas northern hemisphere warming is amplified due to faster thermal response to climate forcing due to greater land mass and less ocean mass; compared to the southern hemisphere which is largely water (which has a slower thermal inertial response to climate forcings).

Satellite readings respond quickly to ENSO episodes while the surface response both lags and is spread over a longer period, and is therefore generally less extreme (this is because the surface is moderated by oceans and land masses which the LT atmosphere is not).

When a positive forcing is applied to the northern hemisphere, less energy is transfer to the south since the atmosphere has lower resistance to heat loss and the land has less thermal mass to retain heat to buffer the loss.

The work, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that 70 % of the world's languages occur in the world's 35 biodiversity hotspots and in 5 wilderness areas, with a total area less than one - quarter of the Earth's land mass.

Most of the Nation Less Than Three Feet Above Sea Level To put all of this in perspective, Tuvalu has a population of about 12,000 people (only Vatican City and Nauru have fewer people) and has a total land mass of just 10 square miles in size, spread out over several islands.

This land area, representing about 2 % of the Antarctic land mass and even less of its total ice sheet, is expected to warm and lose ice while the other 98 % gains ice.

The USDA home loan is offered to applicants in less - dense neighborhoods across the U.S. Eligibility is location - based, but a surprising 97 % of the U.S. land mass is USDA - approved.