Sentences with phrase «northern winter»

It also does not work very well in northern winters.

Here is one woman's version of simple living on the river, in a boat that is equipped to see the tough northern winters through.

This year, ice coverage has reached record lows for the early northern winter.

The study's authors suspect that the leapfrog pattern they found could be due to a tradeoff between the favorability of southern breeding locations and the harshness of northern wintering locations.

Shindell, D.T., R.L. Miller, G.A. Schmidt, and L. Pandolfo, 1999: Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse - gas forcing.

American songbirds migrate to escape harsh northern winters, rather than to enjoy rich northern summers as many biologists thought

Looking at the Central England Temperature record averages for common benchmarks and whole of record shows little annual difference and the monthly averages basically composed of less - cold northern winter months (greatest variance October to January) with negligible change during the northern summer:

Shindell, D.T., R.L. Miller, G.A. Schmidt, and L. Pandolfo, 1999: Simulation of recent northern winter climate trends by greenhouse - gas forcing.

The 10 ply tires are bad for northern winter snow and ice.

It's thought to be an evolved mechanism that allowed humankind to stay (relatively) healthy and functioning in times of famine or during long northern winters that were inhospitable to growing carbs (ie: fruits, vegetables, and grains).

If you love cats — as we do — it's painful to think of them having to brave the elements on their own during a freezing northern winter, especially this year.

In that time, Saturn and its moons have seen the seasons change from northern winter to northern summer.

The Subaru WRX has long been the high performance vehicle of choice for those forced to deal with snowy northern winters where traction is at a premium.

As northern winter happends we also see orioles, warblers, vireos and other beautiful birds!

And after a pretty horrible Northern winter, he can see out the next year or two with equanimity.

Matthes, K., Kurada, Y., Kunihiko, K. and Langematz, U., 2006: Transfer of the solar signal from the stratosphere to the troposphere: Northern winter Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres (1984 — 2012), DOI: 10.1029 / 2005JD006283

The geochemist Wallace Broecker, to whom we owe a number of the important ideas about abrupt climate change, speculates that there is a chain of causation starting with more far - northern winter sea ice and (because of the ice preventing the winds from stirring up waves and evaporation and salt excess) thereby fewer sinks for the Gulf Stream, which in turn diminishes the big conveyor loop of currents linking the North Atlantic to the Pacific.

At this time raising northern winter land based temperatures has not altered published combined annual means but we anticipate this will change and the world will get warmer again (at least on paper, which appears to be about the only place that is true).

Initially, I had assumed that a nine - month adventure in the bush would purposely try to avoid the coldest months of the year, but instead the family embraced the loneliness and extreme isolation of the long, dark northern winter.

The difference in the average surface temperature between northern winter and summer is an enormous 15 degrees Celsius (27 degrees Fahrenheit).

(He does not miss northern winters.)

ENSO events are most clearly defined in northern winter (DJF), both in terms of impacts and robustness with regard to the ENSO index used.

Most of the songbirds that migrate between North America and the tropics do it to escape harsh northern winters.

Each year thousands of vibrant orange and black Monarch Butterflies flock to Pismo Beach, seeking shelter from the freezing northern winters.

«Neandertals might have had adaptations to get through the stress of northern winters that moderns could pick up through introgression.»

It flies between 25,000 and 30,000 miles a year (the equivalent of circling the globe), breeding north of the Arctic Circle yet spends the northern winter in the Antarctic.

... I really hope they survive the Northern winter..

It was cold and black in the high school parking lot, with that sharp frigidity of the northern winter that makes nostrils tick at each breath.

Above the clouds in the northern winter hemisphere, the planet was putting on quite the unexpected show when Cassini first arrived: it was blue!

In the northern winter months we are surrounded by the stark beauty of chilled landscapes.

CASSINI»S CURTAIN CALL In 13 years of orbiting Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft has seen the passing of two seasons: northern winter to spring and spring to summer.

The edge of that circle is defined as the northernmost point at which the sun is visible on the northern winter solstice and the southernmost point at which the midnight sun can be seen on the northern summer solstice.

In the northern winter of 2004 to 2005, the weak El Niño was part of a radical change in atmospheric circulation and storm track across the USA, ameliorating the drought in the Southwest, although lakes remain low.

It's releasing in «late» northern winter.

Most of the children in Kris Stringer's preschool class, here along California's border with Mexico, have never felt the onset of a Northern winter.

Regina Schroeder, who started reviewing for Booklist in 2001, worked at (the original) Powell's until 2003, when she decided she'd had enough of northern winters and migrated south.