Sentences with phrase «over arid»

Wang, J., Chen, F., Jin, L. & Bai, H. Characteristics of the dry / wet trend over arid central Asia over the past 100 years.

The Fifth Assessment Report, issued by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013, synthesized the available scientific studies and reported that increases in evaporation over arid lands are likely throughout the 21st century.

scattered over the arid plains.

Tour along the rugged mountain ranges with panoramic views over the arid plains to the coast (only accessible by four wheel drive vehicle)..

Depart William Creek and fly over one of the world's largest inland lakes, Lake Eyre then over the arid Simpson Desert and Birdsville.

Flying low to the ground, the plane skims over arid bushveld and grazing herds of impala and springbok before arriving at the lodge, where staff welcome guests with traditional Setswana songs and trays of fruity cocktails.

The wind blows over arid environments creating a fresh canvas at the light break of the sun.

It unforgettably captured the fragile beauty of our living planet as it hovered in stark contrast over the arid sterility of the lunar horizon: a precious droplet of life — perhaps the only one we could ever know — in the velvety darkness.

But as she walks over an arid patch of Hell Creek, she perks up again at the prospect of discovery.

Two initially did the hard work of tracking and pursuing over the arid grassland and woodland terrain, while the other held back.

Not exact matches

Our whole life happens within its wordless void, on its arid slopes that drain the life from us as we wander in circles learning the same old lessons over and over.

Any man who wanders in a scant span of 15 miles from rain forest into arid plains of cactus and algarroba and sees snow crests standing over tropic water naturally comes to wonder about the excitements of this varied land.

Last week, it found itself at odds with the Institute for Fiscal Studies on this very point, in an arid war over methodologies.

A new study chronicles how central Asia dried out over the last 23 million years into one of the most arid regions on the planet.

As a reddish sky gave way to sunrise over the San Andres Mountains, I crossed a stretch of arid wilderness so harsh and unforgiving that 17th - century Spanish explorers called it the Jornada del Muerto: the Journey of the Dead Man.

And as an epilogue to this unforgettable adventure, you can opt to fly over Peru's arid southern coast to view the stunning Nazca Lines from the vantage point of the gods.

Over the past 200 years, almost half of all extinctions worldwide have occurred in Australia, most in the arid zone.

Over the past 200 years, more than half the mammal species that once graced the arid grasslands and billabongs of central Australia have disappeared, landing the region with an unwanted world record in extinctions.

It explores the diversity of its landscape from the seas to the arid interior, the effects of flood, drought and bushfire and the impact of over 200 years of European settlement on the land, its plant and animals.

The story is darker than the first, though, and the gripping journey brings Arid more questions than answers, as Over the Moon Games prepares to bring this trilogy to a close.

This scene is contrasted with the arid landscape of Somalia, where young men are stood over by armed thugs and ordered to steal a boat.

A high, thin whisper of impending doom slowly took over at the base of my skull, painting lurid scenes of our bleached bones being strewn across the arid expanses of West Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona by coyotes.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

John Woinarksi: Australian mammals did suffer a wave of extinctions initially in semi-arid then arid Australia leading up to about the 1960s, and we thought that might be the end of the problem but in fact over the last two to three decades in northern Australia, the same sorts of species that went extinct elsewhere in Australia seem to be disappearing rapidly from that northern Australian landscape as well.

Ecologist Dr John Read has dissected the gut of almost a thousand feral cats that he's caught over the past 25 years in the South Australian arid lands.

It's the very elements that provided such challenges over the centuries that make a visit to NT a uniquely enriching experience: endless, arid deserts; rust - red canyons and gorges; bird - rich wetlands; «roos, wallabies and — yes — crocs.

The New World Desert and indoor succulent collections (in the Arid House) include many specimens from South America, with over 1,100 taxa of cactus alone.

Developer Over the Moon Games is planning to continue ARID's journey and her search for answers later this year, and I can't wait to jump back into this world to find out what challenges await our delightful AI friend.

While regional climate modelling may have started off to study tropical or arid regions, it is perfectly legitimate to apply regional climate models over Greenland too, as long as you adapt the model to the specific circumstances.

Given the prevalence of drought over North Carolina and much of the southeast, this was a strong benefit for me, and I believe small aquaponic systems hold great promise for addressing nutritional needs in poor, arid countries.

If CO2 in the Anthropocene atmosphere contributes to re-vegetating currently arid areas as it did post-LGM, we should expect an even greater warming feedback from CO2 than is assumed from water vapor and albedo feedbacks, due to decreased global dust - induced albedo and increased water vapor from transpiration over increased vegetated area.

After a period of hype and over enthusiasm, investments have dried up, somewhat like the promise of oil from arid land.

«Rains storm persisted for a couple of weeks over the Indus delta and adjoining areas experiencing arid climatic conditions.

A fragmentation of the cultural landscapes in the arid and semi-arid lands of Mongolia has increased vulnerability and reduced the adaptive capacities to climate variability of traditional pastoral systems, which have evolved over thousands of years.

Over the past three decades, however, hundreds of thousands of farmers in Burkina Faso and Niger have transformed large swaths of the region's arid landscape into productive agricultural land, improving food security for about 3 million people.

Once again water vapor (H2O) does exactly the same thing; only moreso than carbon dioxide; and it is also much more abundant in the atmosphere; even over the most arid deserts.

Deserts «greening» from rising carbon dioxide: Green foliage boosted across the world's arid regions Date: July 8, 2013 Source: CSIRO Australia Summary: Increased levels of carbon dioxide have helped boost green foliage across the world's arid regions over the past 30 years through a process called carbon dioxide fertilization, according to new research.

The exported moisture makes its way to the African Sahel, where it soaks the arid land and gradually builds up soil moisture over the course of three months.

Brazil's setting aside of more than 500,000 square miles (1.25 million square kilometers) of rainforest in protected areas over the past decade may effectively buffer the Amazon from the effects of climate change, preventing Earth's largest rainforest from tipping towards arid savanna in the face of ongoing deforestation and rising temperatures, argues a new paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Satellite measurements show that the increase of CO2 over the last few decades has already caused a pronounced greening of the planet — especially in arid regions.

We established this empirical «short method» at all our arid mountain stations and accumulated over 9000 days of solar - constant mean daily measures between 1923 and 1952.

And since humidity is constrained by temperature, an unstable mid level temperature also implies an arid over humid profile.

Subtropical highs intensified over the ocean waters of the Southern Hemisphere and probably insulated the arid climate of Western Australia.

It is a culturally diverse society with a population of more than 22 million.21 Australia's population includes Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) peoples and migrants from some 200 countries with Indigenous Australian peoples representing 2.5 % of the total population.22 In over 60 years of planned post-war migration, Australia has accepted more than 6.5 million migrants and in the most recent census (2006), 3.1 million people (16 % of the population) were reported to speak a language other than English at home.23 The majority of the population lives in the cities mainly located around the coast; however, many live in rural and remote areas ranging from dry arid land to tropical and a few live in what are arguably some of the most remote and untouched areas of the world.

Establishing landuse / cover change patterns over the last two decades and associated factors for change in semi arid and sub humid zones of Tanzania