Sentences with phrase «one's low elevation»

People who [live at low elevation] are connected to people who are high.

Fire risk may increase in all forests; fire severity may increase the most in lower elevation forests.

Such increases could lead to the immersion of very large proportions of many islands with low elevation.

The supercharged V8 engine in our tester was impressive even at over 5,000 feet above sea level, feeling just strong as it did at a much lower elevation.

It appears that the upwards contraction of some high - elevation species has been compensated by lower elevation ones moving up.

Unless you are hiking at low elevation and have a lot of faith in the forecast, dress in layers.

I've never heard of having to adjust recipes for low elevation, so I can't answer that.

Unlike other species of Batrachoseps occurring at low elevations on the mainland in which surface activity declines following the rainy season, Channel Islands slender salamanders remain surface active at some sites throughout the year.

The authors found a variety of potential changes to these areas, including: a shift in the timing of streamflow due to changing snow accumulation and melt, a decrease of snow water equivalent precipitation (in the Peace and Campbell and in lower elevation areas of the Columbia) and an increase in snow water equivalent precipitation in the higher elevation areas of the Columbia.

The advance increases the glaciers area at low elevation where ablation is highest, returning the glacier to equilibrium.

Here we assessed the song structure of male mountain chickadees using two exemplars of high and low elevation habitats on two different mountains in the Sierra Nevada with similar mixed - conifer forest structure.

A global relief map of Mars shows low elevations in blue, where ancient oceans likely covered much of the northern hemisphere.

A massive ice sheet almost completely covers Greenland, and as summertime temperatures climb and sunlight hours lengthen, parts of the ice sheet surface usually melt, especially at lower elevations near the coast.

Specifically, previous research has shown that mountain chickadees living at high elevations, that experience harsher winter conditions, have superior spatial memory and related brain regions associated with more intense food caching compared with low elevation birds (these results found using different birds from the same Mountain 1 populations at exactly the same elevations used here [23 — 25]-RRB-.

Gordon McGranahan et al., «The Rising Tide: Assessing the Risks of Climate Change and Human Settlements in Low Elevation Coastal Zones,» Environment and Urbanization, vol.

Ablation peaks in May at low elevation Snotel sites, in June at high elevation Snotel sites, and in August on glaciers.

They found that large landslides in the southern, lower elevation ranges of the Himalaya are more likely to increase flood risk than those in the high mountains further north.

In particular, the model captures the diurnal amplitude and phase, with heavier rainfall at high elevations along the Sierra Madre Occidental in the early afternoon that shifts to lower elevations along the west slopes in the evening.

From 1995 - 2000 Columbia Glacier and Lower Curtis Glacier had the most negative balances, these being the two lowest elevation glaciers.

Most of the pines at lower elevations here are ponderosa.

Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

Red areas on the topographic image indicate high elevations, and blue or purple areas indicate low elevation.

Winters have brought increases in low elevation snow events and increases in the wide and wild swings typical of «less droughty» La Ninas (well, less droughty for the coast north of about San Luis Obispo, that is...).

Accumulating snowfall is also possible on Saturday morning at even lower elevations in the far eastern Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley, where an inch or two could fall down to 200 feet or so.

Back in the lab, the team simulated the species» shift upslope by transplanting baby trees from lower elevations into soils collected up in the mountains.

The elevation of marsh species is important; those species at lower elevations experience longer and more frequent tidal floods and therefore have the opportunity for more sediment deposition to occur.

An extremely cold (but also quite dry) storm system originating over Western Canada brought long - duration hard freezes to most regions and some snowfall to very low elevations in parts of Northern California late last week (including flurries on the beaches near Eureka and very substantial snowfall in Redding around 500 ft AMSL in the Northern Sacramento Valley).

Contradicting prevailing global warming theory, the Australian researchers reported that the die - offs were happening at higher elevations with cooler temperatures, but not at warmer lower elevations.

Helicopters prefer cold weather and low elevation so they would perform best over Arctic waters.

If the Pine Island Glacier had retreated slowly, the concentration of Beryllium - 10 in the higher and lower elevation rocks would have been quite different.

We never once had a problem with lice or mites, so perhaps that is a mid west / lower elevation problem, as other bugs, like fleas, are also less of a problem in Colorado.

Lower elevations generally offer inferior observing conditions.

Microclimate is the climate near the ground which can be colder or warmer than in the free atmosphere, depending on local topography (e.g. north vs. south side of a hill, higher vs. lower elevation) and vegetation (e.g. young sparse vs. old dense forest).

NASA deliberately crashed the MESSENGER spacecraft into the planet last week; during its final year of life, the craft repeatedly skirted close to the surface, detecting magnetized terrain, such as over the volcanic plains shown in blue here (blue denotes low elevations and red, high elevations).

Song structure varied significantly between high and low elevation adjacent populations from the same mountain and between populations from different mountains at the same elevations, despite a continuous distribution across each mountain slope.

The 5 - Shutter design maximizes the height between the base and the top giving superior low elevation view.

First Klaus regales me with tales of a recent development drive of the 2017 NSX in the Alps, where the foremost challenge on the narrow mountain passes proved to be pavement slick with cow manure, as the farmers were busy bringing their cattle to new pastures at lower elevations before the onset of winter.

Yellowstone's animals spend the winter in low elevation valleys, where they are easier to spot against the sparkling snow.

Depending on the weather, visibility and snow conditions on any given day, groups will enjoy anything from open bowls and glaciated runs to subalpine glades, trees and lower elevation cutblocks (area opened by logging).

The luxury cabin rentals in Laurel Branch offer beautiful wooded and mountain views, while the neighborhood's lower elevation makes it an easy drive from nearby Pigeon Forge.