Sentences with phrase «microclimates as»

Peru is an amazing country that can take pride in a huge natural diversity, climates and microclimates as well as enormous cultural and historical richness!!

For a baby to be comfortable, we need to think not just about their global climate, but about their microclimate as well.

PROVIDES A COMFORTABLE MICROCLIMATE: For a baby to be comfortable, we need to think not just about their global climate, but about their microclimate as well.

This «rewriting history» stuff is partly a consequence of the philosophy of the adjustments, which are designed to estimate what the historical observations would have been had they been taken with the same instruments and at the same locations with the same microclimate as the current observations.

Not exact matches

FACN chooses a particular mix of zero - defect beans from microclimates in areas ranging from 800 to 1400 meters to produce a characteristic coffee branded as Haitian Bleu.

«We conclude by challenging the student deficit model, and suggest a course deficit model as explanatory of these performance gaps, whereby the microclimate of the classroom can either raise or lower barriers to success for underrepresented groups in STEM.»

The upgrade — funded by the National Science Foundation — will enable researchers to take core microclimate measurements and precise wind measurements as well as measure carbon dioxide (CO2) differences up through the rainforest's canopy.

«In addition to cooling urban microclimates, these trees, which are integrated within dense urban street networks, also provide other benefits, such as reducing the risk of flash flooding and cleaning the air,» says Peter Edwards, Principal Investigator at the Future Cities Laboratory and Director of the Singapore - ETH Centre.

The exact timing and nature of these effects will vary, depending on such things as crop variety selection, farm microclimates, and market perturbations.

Large bodies of water, such as the Great Lakes in the United States and Canada, can also have microclimates.

This is a good thing as we blast through wildly variable microclimates on scenic mountain climbs and descents.

And suddenly, as we roll down into the quaint seaside town of Sausalito, we enter a different microclimate — where the wind dies down, the sun shines warm and we can sit with cappuccinos by the bay.

While on this incredible journey, trekkers will experience Peruvian biodiversity first - hand as they dive into a variety of microclimates, flora and fauna, typical Andean highlands, as well as the cloud forest of the Amazon.

Narrow singletrack follows the edge of a hand - dug ditch as it weaves through steep terrain and varied microclimates.

As fortune would have it, the islands» rugged topography and microclimates create many scenarios of offshore or light winds for a majority of the prime surfing spots.

Note that the region has microclimates, meaning that, even as the sun shines on one island, a nearby isle could be experiencing showers.

Reflecting on parallels shared in zoo enclosures, fabricated microclimates and imagery drawn from the BBC series Planet Earth, Dook will construct a sculptural enclosure that both mirrors our experience of observing nature's forces whilst positioning us — the audience — as a spectacle to be observed.

As Holte notes in the exhibition catalogue, Made in L.A. 2014 strives to «describe the larger atmospheric condition of the Los Angeles art world by spotlighting a diverse number of idiosyncratic microclimates that define it.»

Specific to gardening, plants have been used throughout history not only as adornment for indoor and outdoor spaces of human habitation, but also to modify microclimates for more comfortable habitation.

Landscaping has also been used for centuries as a method of microclimate amelioration for human habitation, including wind protection, thermal buffering, and atmospheric humidity modification.

It's a conclusion they make as they studied why some researchers are having trouble using recent tree rings from certain spp. and microclimates in some areas.

Spots such as this often result in very pronounced «microclimates», which are quite unrepresentative of the actual climate of the surrounding area.

local weather: winds can affect as can cloud cover; large urban centers create their own upwelling and local microclimate...

And as reported in the discussion on the coral adaptive bleaching hypothesis, coral are always shifting and shuffling their symbionts to maximize photosynthesis to best adapt to changing local microclimates.

But I do know from examining different microclimates, that it highly likely that most of those differences are due to how weather reacts with different habitats, and just because you describe the problem as a «a slew of other known instrumentation and record - keeping issues», does nt mean those issues are predominate.

... According to a review by Lovich and Ennen (2013), the construction and operation of wind farms have both potential and known impacts on terrestrial vertebrates, such as: (i) increase in direct mortality due to traffic collisions; (ii) destruction and modification of the habitat, including road development, habitat fragmentation and barriers to gene flow; (iii) noise effects, visual impacts, vibration and shadow flicker effects from turbines; (iv) electromagnetic field generation; (v) macro and microclimate change; (vi) predator attraction; and (vii) increase in fire risks.

The same should be true for climate change we should evaluate the changes in temperature (not anomalies) over time at the same stations and present the data as a spaghetti graph showing any differing trends and not assume that regional or climates in gridded areas are the same — which they are not as is obvious from the climate zones that exist or microclimates due to changes in precipitation, land use etc..

As the larvae develop into mature polyps, coral typically keep the symbiont types best suited to the local microclimate and expel the others.

Factors such as the type and number of trees, the bird populations which spread seeds after eating the berries and microclimate can influence the growth of mistletoe.

It is 8 storeys high and has native plants and flowers as well as an assortment of Urticaccae — nettles — grown in Japan and India and planted here because the humid microclimate is the perfect spot for them.

So it may not be surprising to see the UHI effect waning as time (and microclimate intervention) go by.

As a city is bigger than a typical microclimate, but a lot smaller than a climate I think it is desciptive.

But that, as we all know is merely weather, where even something as vital to gardeners as the local microclimate is left by the wayside, as are questions of plant predation by insects, slugs, snails, squirrels — which are also influenced by weather and microclimate.

This idea the microclimates, soil conditions, temperature and other localized factors affect the flavor of the wine is known as terroir.

This phenomenon is known as an urban heat island, a contained microclimate in cities in which building materials such as concrete, pavement and asphalt shingles radiate the heat they've absorbed.