Sentences with phrase «northwestern north»

Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southern USA.

At a time when the nation — and the world — has pledged to decrease climate - changing fossil fuels, the $ 3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline would transport 500,000 barrels of highly combustible crude each day nearly 1,200 miles, from the Bakken fracking fields in northwestern North Dakota through four states to southern Illinois.

Taking notice of the recent criticism, the state issued a statement Oct.17 on an estimated 7 - barrel oil spill in Divide County, which borders Canada in far northwestern North Dakota.

However the eastern trough is predicted to slide into the northwestern North Atlantic allowing the western ridge and high heights to spread eastward.

However, certain regions, such as central Eurasia, northwestern North America, and the tropical Pacific are substantially cooler.

December air temperatures over the Arctic Ocean region, eastern Siberia, and northwestern North America were warmer than normal.

Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southernUSA.Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to aLa - Nina - like decadal cooling.

Warming temperatures have benefited not only white spruce, the dominant treeline species in northwestern North America, but also woody deciduous shrubs on the tundra, which have begun shading out other plants as they expand their range.

The rocket blasted off from the new Sohae Satellite Launching Station located in northwestern North Korea near the village of Tongchang - ri.

But no dog remains have been found in northwestern North America, where the earliest settlers crossing a land bridge from Asia would have entered the New World.

His analysis showed that the LGM — when annual temperatures in northernmost Asia and northwestern North America were some 12 degrees Celsius lower than today — likely reduced the northern populations of mammoths as grasslands froze over and food became sparse.

He also championed completion of the Energy Transfer Partners LP - led Dakota Access Pipeline, which runs from northwestern North Dakota to Illinois via South Dakota and Iowa.

BISMARCK, N.D. — Regulators have approved a $ 1.8 million natural gas pipeline project in northwestern North Dakota.

Not exact matches

The city of Lenoir is located in the northwestern region of North Carolina.

Ecuador lies in the northwestern corner of South America, bordered by Colombia to the north, Peru to the south and east, Read more...: Ecuador

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Provisions International Ltd. provides weekly delivery to restaurants, food cooperatives, independent grocers, and specialty food stores throughout Vermont, mid and coastal New Hampshire, coastal Maine as far north as Portland, eastern New York state from Saratoga to the Hudson Valley, northwestern Massachusetts, greater Boston and the North Snorth as Portland, eastern New York state from Saratoga to the Hudson Valley, northwestern Massachusetts, greater Boston and the North SNorth Shore.

The district tracks the North Shore of Long Island, stretching from northeastern Queens, across northern Nassau County and into northwestern Suffolk County.

The zombies» bites are synchronized near noon (possibly cued by clock genes in the fungus) and usually occur in a north - northwestern orientation.

These communities found themselves at the epicenter of an unusual weather pattern that dumped record rainfall on northwestern Pakistan and sent floodwaters surging from the north to the rest of the nation.

The research shows that, between the 1990s and 2010, acidified waters expanded northward approximately 300 nautical miles from the Chukchi slope off the coast of northwestern Alaska to just below the North Pole.

They found that 12 per cent of the insects were born in the northwestern U.S. and Canadian Prairies, 17 per cent in the north - central States and Ontario, 15 per cent in the northeastern U.S. and the Maritimes, 11 per cent in the south - central U.S. and eight per cent in the southeastern States.

Parts of the northwestern Pacific, the North Atlantic south of Greenland, and regions in the southern oceans near Antarctica were were cooler or much cooler than average, with no areas of the global oceans record cold.

It lies in the northwestern corner (22:7:0.7 +25:20:42.4, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Pegasus, the Winged Horse, — northwest of Lambda, Mu, Alpha (Markab), and (Homam) Zeta Pegasi; southwest of Stephan's Quintet and Eta (Matar) and Beta Pegasi (Scheat); southeast of the Lacework Nebula (NGC 6960), northeast of Enif (Epsilon Pegasi), Globular Cluster M15, and Kitalpha (Alpha Equulei); and north of Biham (Theta Pegasi) and Sadalmelik (Alpha Aquarii).

Yet another train carrying volatile crude oil from the Bakken shale formation in North Dakota derailed yesterday, this time in northwestern Illinois near the historic tourist area of Galena overlooking the Mississippi River.

It lies in the northwestern part (13:11:52.39 +27:52:41.46, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Coma Berenices, Berenice's Hair — north of Diadem (Alpha Comae Berenices).

It lies in the northwestern part (15:3:47.3 +47:39:14.6, ICRS 2000.0) of Constellation Boötes, the Herdsman or Bear Driver — north of Nekkar (Beta Boötis), east of Lamda Boötis, northeast of Seginus (Gamma Boötis), southwest of Edasich (Iota Draconis), southeast of Theta Boötis and Alkaid (Eta Ursae Majoris), and west of Tau and Nu Herculis.

Deep earthquakes, also called intraplate quakes, take place within the oceanic Juan de Fuca plate (beneath Oregon and Washington) and the Gorda plate (beneath northwestern California) as they subduct beneath the North America plate.

The divisions are northwestern (NW), southwestern (SW), north central (NC), central (C), south central (SC), northeastern (NE), and southeastern (SE).

The city of Lenoir is located in the northwestern region of North Carolina.

He subsequently sent a group of his men ashore by longboat, making them the first Europeans to make landfall on the northwestern coast of North America.

Since graduating veterinary school, Dr. Staunton has worked in the far north and northwestern Chicago suburbs.

The widest distribution, (as shown on the map), is in the northwestern part of the North American continent.

It really is located within the northwestern element from the peninsula of Nicoya, Playa Conchal and may be discovered on the Pacific cost of the mainland North The usa.

This area occupies the north and northwestern side of the island and is far less developed than Samui's prime resort towns of Chaweng, Lamai, and neighbouring Bophut.

Set along the twisting road from Bedugul towards the north coast's Seririt, the appealing village stretches for just 700 metres along an escarpment running down from the northwestern rim of the Bedugul caldera.

«This area, this region is becoming more than a single day destination, more than an add - on to a visit to Manchester or northwestern Connecticut or Southern Berkshire County,» says Joseph Thompson, director of MASS MoCA, at Wednesday's announcement in North Adams.

Silver Spoke Wind Energy Center is a roughly 10,000 - acre project that will place up to 64 turbines in northwestern Osage County near Foraker and Grainola and north to the Kansas border.

Having said that, I'm not sure that the PDSI plot is the last word on increasing drought, I feel like recently the confidence in past drought trends has decreased — for example, the SREX report seems to indicate only medium confidence for some regions — eg, «There is medium confidence that some regions of the world have experienced more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia.

Dali Lake is located near the northwestern limit of the East Asian monsoon, and so would reflect the changes brought about when the monsoon shifted north.

Researchers have struggled to accurately model the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, known to scientists as the «North American monsoon.»

Temperature departures of 2.0 - 4.0 degrees F (1.1 - 2.2 degrees C) above normal were common across much of Nebraska, South Dakota, and western Colorado, while temperatures in excess of 4.0 degrees F (2.2 degrees C) above normal occurred in North Dakota, portions of South Dakota, and an area encompassing southwestern Wyoming into northwestern Colorado.

MODIS Terra image from July 25, 2006, showing the ice - laden Beaufort Sea region of the Arctic Ocean north of Alaska and northwestern Canada, where the SHEBA experiment was conducted from October 1997 - October 1998.

The diurnal cycle of summer monsoon convection in the coastal, mountainous region of northwestern Mexico is investigated using data from the 2004 North American Monsoon Experiment (NAME).

Prominent among the regions with the solar intensity needed to profitably operate solar thermal power plants are the U.S. Southwest, North Africa, Mediterranean Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, and the desert regions of Pakistan, northwestern India, and northern and western China.

In the summer (JJA) and autumn (SON) of strong El Niño years, tropical cyclone numbers increase markedly in the southeastern quadrant of the western North Pacific (0 ° N — 17 ° N, 140 ° E — 180 ° E) and decrease in the northwestern quadrant (17 ° N — 30 ° N, 120 ° E — 140 ° E; Wang and Chan, 2002).

There is medium confidence that since the 1950s some regions of the world have experienced more intense and longer droughts (e.g., southern Europe, west Africa) but also opposite trends exist in other regions (e.g., central North America, northwestern Australia).

«There is medium confidence that since the 1950s some regions of the world have experienced a trend to more intense and longer droughts, in particular in southern Europe and West Africa, but in some regions droughts have become less frequent, less intense, or shorter, for example, in central North America and northwestern Australia.»

«The observed trends may be extrapolated to the coastal seas of the North American Atlantic Ocean and the North, Baltic and Mediterranean Seas, which have received ever - increasing amounts of anthropogenic atmospheric nitrate deposition and river - borne nitrate, comparable to those absorbed by coastal and marginal seas of the northwestern Pacific Ocean.»

«Accompanied by significant peaks at 60.2 and 73 years, the continuously periodicities around 49 — 114 years in our regional temperature reconstruction might tentatively be related to PDO, Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation... as well as solar activity... The AMO was an important driver of multidecadal variations in summer climate not only in North America and western Europebut also in the East Asia... The 60.2 - year peak associated with AMO demonstrated that multidecadal variations in late summer temperature in the NWSP NWSP [northwestern Sichuan Plateau, China] might be controlled by AMO.»