These shifts may include rising sea levels, stronger tropical cyclones, the loss of soil
moisture under higher temperatures, more intense precipitation and flooding, more frequent droughts, the melting of glaciers and the changing seasonality of snowmelt.
Not exact matches
«
Under moisture or
high or low
temperatures, it's not easily damaged,» he said.
It's manufactured in a process called rendering, in which whole meats are processed
under high temperatures and
high pressures to separate out fat and
moisture from dried protein solids.
«We also present a set of global vulnerability drivers that are known with
high confidence: (1) droughts eventually occur everywhere; (2) warming produces hotter droughts; (3) atmospheric
moisture demand increases nonlinearly with
temperature during drought; (4) mortality can occur faster in hotter drought, consistent with fundamental physiology; (5) shorter droughts occur more frequently than longer droughts and can become lethal
under warming, increasing the frequency of lethal drought nonlinearly; and (6) mortality happens rapidly relative to growth intervals needed for forest recovery.
Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of
higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its
moisture, resulting in hotter summers
under drier climatic conditions.6
15 Fossil Fuels: Coal Decaying plant matter, when buried
under sediment, eventually forms peat (very moist, compact) Further compaction, over time, forces the
moisture out of the peat — forms a layer of lignite More compression (compaction), and more
moisture is removed, forming a layer of soft coal (bituminous)
Higher pressure and higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite
Higher pressure and
higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite
higher temperatures cause the bituminous coal to metamorphose into hard coal (anthracite) Coal
For example, the root system of forest trees facilitates both storage and extraction of
moisture from soil; biogenic aerosols produced by trees control the intensity of water vapor condensation over the forest; the large height of trees determines the vertical
temperature gradient
under the canopy, keeping soil evaporation
under biotic control; tall trees are also essential for surface friction that does not allow extremely
high wind velocities to develop.
Made by fusing multiple layers of impregnated paper
under high pressure
temperature, bonded to a substrate, they are resistant to impact, scratching and
moisture.