Sentences with phrase «other dry region»

Namaqualand is dry, flat but so biodiverse that it rivals any other dry region in the world.

Not exact matches

Don Sebastiani & Sons and The Other Guys source their grapes from many of the world's best growing regions, including the Alexander Valley, the Russian River Valley the Dry Creek Valley and the famed Napa Valley.

Exhibitors include Ambriola, importer and distributor of Italian cheeses; Italmil, leader in Italian pastry, flours and mixes; Azienda Agricola Pilandro, curated wines from the Lugana region; Acetificio Carandini Emilio Spa, producers of varietal vinegards, glazes and condiments; Tradizoni Padane, importers of fresh and filled dry pasta; Bilait, producers of highly efficient and innovative pastry machinery; and Minipack - Torre, packaging solutions and packaging machines among others.

A poleward expansion of the tropics is likely to bring even drier conditions to these heavily populated regions, but may bring increased moisture to other areas.

The boundary between the two phases moved toward the center as the droplet dried, and then other regions with different structures appeared, such as the columnar and crystal phases.

Water harvesting by collecting excess rain run - off for instance in cisterns — for supplementary irrigation during dry spells — is a common traditional approach in some regions such as the Sahel region in Africa, but is under - used in many other semi-arid regions such as Asia and North America.

Scientists generally think that global warming, driven mostly by rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, will make some regions wetter and others drier.

This line marks a deep ocean channel that remained water - filled even during past ice ages, when sea levels saw channels between other islands in the region dry out.

«Not only hot events but wet events, and also in other regions of the world, dry events as well.»

The latter is probably responsible e.g. for the (robust) projection of summer drying of the Mediterranean (and other subtropic regions).

One such valley, Margaritifer Sinus, would have received less rain than some other areas due to the Tharsis bulge causing drier air to flow over that region, yet shows evidence of large amounts of water having flowed there.

In other regions enhanced geothermal systems (or hot dry rock geothermal), which involve drilling into Earth's surface to reach deeper geothermal resources, can allow broader access to geothermal energy.

The DNA of the others was too greatly deteriorated due to poor storage conditions in these hot, dry regions.»

(The images above, from the paper, show how investments in water storage and other measures helped restore vegetation in a dry region in Niger.)

does not show the drying trend shown in other regions of the world over the last 30 years or so.

In southern Africa, scientists expect a migration of species toward cooler and moister areas.13 If we do nothing to reduce our emissions, 12 Etosha faces a net loss of around eight species of mammals by 2050.13 Unless we take meaningful action today, climate change could render Etosha and other national parks in dry or desert regions unable to fulfill their mandate: to protect mammalian biodiversity.13

On the other hand, ocean - atmosphere coupling is very well recognized in this region on longer timescales (such as the multi-decade periodicity of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, or PDO), so it seems likely that the anomalous ridging that has led to to California's extremely dry weather and the North Pacific warm pool are physically linked in one way or another.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

In other regions enhanced geothermal systems (or hot dry rock geothermal), which involve drilling into the earth's surface to reach deeper geothermal resources, can allow broader access to geothermal energy.

In other words, if these yield reductions resulting from greenhouse gas — induced climate change were superimposed on the yield reductions that might occur during a particularly dry period arising from the region's characteristic precipitation variability, they would be higher and comparable with the results from the Morocco National Communication.

The theory explains, among other mysteries, why deforestation around coastal regions tends to lead to drying in the interior.

Increased evaporation can dry out some regions while, at the same time, result in more rain falling in other areas due to the excess moisture in the atmosphere.

In other regions enhanced geothermal systems (or hot dry rock geothermal), which involve drilling into Earth's surface to reach deeper geothermal resources, can allow broader access to geothermal energy.

If the air is still, and the mountain and surrounding region is bare and dry, and a hundred other considerations...

And in Panama, scientists will use detailed datasets of species by species differences across regions to understand which characteristics enable some species to thrive under warmer or drier conditions, while others perish.

The region has been so dry that huge, explosive fires consumed millions of acres of vegetation and thousands of homes and other buildings this summer.

Also in other regions of the Mediterranean, like Greece and western Turkey — and the western Mediterranean (Spain and northern Morocco) this was a relatively dry period in the climatological record.

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Precipitation patterns will change, with some regions getting much wetter and others much drier.

Some analyses of long - term historical weather data for the region show a drying trend, and others no change in rainfall at all (Hulme et al. 2001; Christensen et al. 2007; Funk et al. 2008; Williams and Funk 2011).

Therefore, they may not alleviate dry season problems if the extra water is not stored and would not ease water stress in other regions of the world.