Sentences with phrase «of land elevations»

The state of North Carolina has a wide range of land elevations.

Not exact matches

A series of damaging earthquakes and changes in land elevation preceded its only eruption, during the most recent part of the Holocene, which lasted from September 29 to October 6, 1538, when it was formed.

There is for them only one God — he is holy, his land is holy, his nation is to be a holy people — and while the indiscriminate mixture of moral and ceremonial elements carries over old ideas even while it ventures into new ones, there is an evident elevation of the idea of holiness into terms of the divine majesty, and of the Most High's exclusive claim on man s devotion.

Along with this elevation of the thought of Yahweh as god of the sky went the even more practical idea that, however geographically bounded he might be within his people's land, he still could display his power outside it.

According to this alternative way of understanding the geography, land is perceived not as a horizontal plane but rather vertically, so that it takes advantage of all that the elevations are able to deliver according to the particularities of each ecological system.

• Catalina Island Marine Institute (CIMI) at Toyon Bay, Cherry Cove and Fox Landing • Astrocamp, located at an elevation of 5,000» in Idyllwild, California, in the mountains above Palm Springs.

A low - tide elevation is a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded by and above water at low tide but submerged at high tide.

Among the questions: what is working, and not working, in the Build it Back program, the mayor's reaction to a report that a family he visited in the Arverne section of Rockaway is «getting close» to losing faith in the mayor, the scope / number of people still directly affected by Sandy, whether his weekend trip to Pennsylvania involved a meeting with the consultants running the Build it Back program, whether he stands by statements he made during a September visit to Far Rockaway's St. Mary Star of the Sea, whether the Bloomberg administration allocated enough money to housing from the first tranch of federal assistance, whether he agrees with Oddo's idea of acquiring land for redevelopment, the role of Michael DeLoach in Build it Back, whether New Yorkers should be concerned that they may lose desirable options under Build it Back after de Blasio completes his review and issues on elevation of existing structures v. new construction.

The Speaker of Parliament, Edward Doe Adjaho, has congratulated the President - elect, Nana Akufo - Addo on his elevation to the high office of the land.

Published this week in Nature Climate Change, the initial study finds that embankments constructed since the 1960s are primarily to blame for lower land elevations along the Ganges - Brahmaputra River Delta, with some areas experiencing more than twice the rate of the most worrisome sea - level rise projections from the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

The analysis, which used land elevation and tidal data, found that 460 acres, or about a sixth of Hallandale Beach, would be below sea level during high tide under a 3 - foot scenario of rise, according to Nancy Gassman, a natural resources administrator for Broward County's Natural Resources Planning and Management Division who worked on the assessment.

Further observations will be used to refine the global map, to construct local and regional digital elevation models for scientific analysis and aid in assessment of future landing sites, and to attempt to detect and characterize global - scale seasonal variations.

China's national protected area system has expanded greatly in recent years, but the areas are typically remote, at higher elevations and ineffectively managed, while sacred forests are closer to centers of human land use, at lower - elevations and managed effectively at the community level.

At the current rates that the sea is rising and land is sinking, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists say by 2100 the Gulf of Mexico could rise as much as 4.3 feet across this landscape, which has an average elevation of about 3 feet.

While the specific cause of the Yosemite toad's decline is unknown, meadow restoration across the high Sierras is of importance to land managers focusing on watershed health to maintain clean and sustainable water supplies for the populations at lower elevations.

Because the vast plateau at such altitudes absorbs a huge amount of solar radiation, the atmospheric layer above it in summer is much warmer than air at similar elevations over lower land or the oceans.

«Also, if dunes are eroded you may actually «gain» land by redistribution of sediment, but elevations are changed.

Having precise measurements of snow on sea ice is essential for NASA's upcoming Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2).

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

Here are some satellite tracks, from NASA's ICESat (Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite), revealing areas of dynamic thinning (red) in Antarctica and Greenland [click to enlarge].

Landing a large mass could probably be achieved, but astronauts might be restricted to landing on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limitedLanding a large mass could probably be achieved, but astronauts might be restricted to landing on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limitedlanding on portions of the planet with low elevations, and they might be able to carry only a small amount of supplies for a short visit of limited scope.

ASTER data is used to create detailed maps of land surface temperature, reflectance, and elevation.ASTER captures high spatial resolution data in 14 bands, from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelengths, and provides stereo viewing capability for digital elevation model creation.

This fall, NASA will launch the Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), which will use a highly advanced laser instrument to measure the changing elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously Elevation Satellite - 2 (ICESat - 2), which will use a highly advanced laser instrument to measure the changing elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously elevation of ice around the world, providing a view of the height of Earth's ice with greater detail than previously possible.

Students demonstrate the following movement skills and explain the underlying principles: alignment, balance, initiation of movement, articulation of isolated body parts, weight shift, elevation and landing, fall and recovery

They took a piece of land, put down roads where it looked good, left the elevation changes and didn't touch much of the surrounding area.

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This extraordinary design features breathtaking elevation changes and expansive landing areas that meander through some of the most picturesque terrain in the Northland.»

It is common to abundant in shrub lands, grasslands, and in early several stages of most habitats statewide (except at some high elevations, although lower than 1600 feet).

The various shades of green accurately depict the elevation of the land, so you can see where the mountains and valleys are.

These provide different challenges to the course designer with varying amounts of obstacles, elevation changes, and availability of land.

As the environments become steeper, you'll reach greater heights — use elevation to your advantage by ascending walls and ledges, then launch yourself onto your target and land a flurry of blows, while holding on for your life!

Though the glaciated surface flows down to the sea, much of the miles thick ice fills a vast central basin, the land beneath sloping downhill towards Greenland's center, much of which is over a kilometer below the elevation of the coast.

The impact of high elevation land forms, such as the Himalayas, the Andes and the Antarctic, are also left out.

We present our best estimate of the thickness and volume of the Arctic Ocean ice cover from 10 Ice, Cloud, and land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) campaigns that span a 5 - year period between 2003 and 2008.

In fact, the wild lands and river encompass only about 25,000 acres, only a fraction the size of higher elevation designated wilderness areas in the region.

However, it's not just the absolute rise in sea level but the accompanying storm surges that would occur with any rise and the resultant flooding of all unprotected low lying lands, which are at higher elevations than the absolute rise.

Some of the rumored plans include abandonment of the region's major roadways, stopping new construction, and re-zoning the land to declare all property at an elevation less than 39 inches to be uninhabitable.

We interpolate each elevation — population relationship to estimate county populations on affected land at sea levels of interest and to estimate the thresholds below which selected fractions of each city population (i) live.

Exploring data - related uncertainties in analyses of land area and population in the «Low - Elevation Coastal Zone» (LECZ)

Over the long - term, melting of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could yield as much as 10 to 14 feet of global average sea level rise, with local sea level rise varying considerably depending on land elevation trends, ocean currents and other factors.

The paper spotlighted the need to «model the propagation of noise and light pollution from sources in energy developments, and identify the landscape characteristics (e.g., topography, elevation, and land cover) that may affect these sources of disturbance.»

Not hat we know that there is any, but given that polar icecap melting would lower the elevation of the water mass, from land to sea level.

7 Amount of precipitation that results Shape and land elevation contribute to global climate patterns

Repeated annual measurements of key glaciers maintains a long - term record of change in the Antarctic that goes back to NASA's Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite (ICESat) which stopped collecting data in 2009.

This continental margin comprises a number of seafloor elevations and forms the submerged prolongation of the land mass of Canada.

The area of emerged land depends on sea level and on the distribution of continental elevations as a function of continental area that is given by the continental hypsometric curve.

It comprises a number of seafloor elevations (Lomonosov Ridge and Alpha Ridge) and forms the submerged prolongation of the land mass of Canada.

This ice reached surface elevations of more than 1000 m along the coast of the central and southern Transantarctic Mountains and Marie Byrd Land.

Recent land elevation changes via the CryoSat - 2 satellite, showing the greatest amount of sinking land in West Antarctica.

Even more ambitious, however, is the government's plan to reclaim and construct a land area the size of New York's Central Park at 5 - to - 10 meters above sea level, allowing citizens from outer atolls to resettle on this new elevation - fortified land, excavated from the sea on Funafuti Atoll.