Sentences with phrase «over land or water»

✓ Loss from a stranded, sunk, burned, derailed, or from a collision of a transport when an insured vehicle is being carried over land or water

It's because both land and ocean surfaces are heated by shortwave solar radiation and where aerosols reflect SWR equally well over land or water and where greenhouse gases work by retarding the rate of radiative cooling which is not equal over land and water.

A versatile, tireless hunting dog capable of hunting feathered and furred game, pointing or treeing as necessary, retrieving to hand over land or water, and tracking wounded game.

A debate now exists as to precisely when humans first colonized the Americas and if those first routes were over land or water.

They descend from cumulonimbus (thunderstorm) clouds, which can be over land or water.

By holding that an act can only attract the «future act» processes if it occurs over lands or waters where a determination of native title has already been made, this decision ensures that the future acts regime would never operate in regard to registered native title claimants.

Not exact matches

«Everything we fight over — whether it's land or it's fresh water, whether it is energy — is in abundance in space.»

Across most of the region — in Sudan, Somalia, Niger, Senegal, Nigeria's Niger Delta area, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia — the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization in 2006 identified tension or outright violence over the use of water - rich land or water itself.

nice question — there was indeed a global ocean in earths history and it was salt water — according to modern science when the plates moved and enclosed land creating a land locked ocean which over time turn to fresh water by leaking the salt into the bedrock... or something like that — i have rough understanding.

Mostly I was on flying vessels over large stretches of land or even larger stretches of water.

In addition, by paving over previously open space — or farming previously reserved lands — communities in these watersheds contribute to record high waters through increased runoff.

The environment in the UK has been improving over the last 10 or 15 years — I'm thinking about air and water quality and looking after our land.

Those that form or move over water are called waterspouts and tend to be much weaker than tornadoes over land.

The effect was easier to see over water than land because, in general, the atmosphere above the oceans is relatively low in aerosols — tiny liquid or solid particles that float in the air.

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

And when he climbs onto an old tire swing for an arc or two over a lake, the tiresomely predictable break that lands him in the water ruins the scene as gentle nostalgia while landing too clunkily to work as comic relief.

When they share the screen, on land or in water, their passion washes over the audience like a cleansing rain.

A cornerstone of our safety policy is ensuring that transportation providers across all modes — on roads, rails, water, or in the air, over land and underground — employ operators who are 100 percent drug - and alcohol - free.

When it is around water, it grows very quickly and tends to take over agricultural lands, landscaped properties, and other areas where the vegetation has been cut down or uprooted.

/ ~ pion dog or bitch in the United States, The only restriction on contestants for ~ the title being that they must have previously placed first, second, third or fourth during the calendar year, in a Trial for the breed in this country where championship points are awarded, It is the purpose of this Trial to determine the best Springer of the year under the usual and customary trial procedures» but «covering more trial days and more series per dog, in order that consist ant, outstanding, dog work over the entire trial may be demonstrated and the element of luck eliminated as nearly as possible in the final judging of all contestants, Thus no trick or unusual tests WIll be allowed and the dogs will be tested in a manner approximating a rough days, shoot adjoining water as closely as is possible with planted game, There will be a minimum of five land series and two water series and the winning and placing dogs will be required to complete all series to receive an award, The trophy for the best amateur handler in the trials will be awarded only in the event that the recipient is able = to complete all series required of the winning and placing dogs.

The area has always been a magnet for the adventurous, whether coming to surf the cold waters of the rugged beach breaks, to storm watch on winter weekends, land a massive halibut or salmon in peak summer season, kayak through pristine tranquil waters, or escape to a relaxing spa in one of the areas glamorous resorts, Tofino has something for all who are willing to make the trek over the mountains from Port Alberni.

Guest accommodations are located near the beach, either on land or over the water, providing relaxing ambiance and fabulous views.

Comprehensive armory including over 300 weapons, units and fully usable armed or unarmed vehicles of all air, land and water classes.

Most TS losses occur from the storm surge, the water pushed over the land, or inland flooding caused by huge amounts of rainfall often generated by lesser tropical storms hung up over coastlines.

I have not made up my mind yet: We know so little about a climate that over a billion years has at times been hot enough to boil water or create and destroy life in uncountable cycles, that has sent glaciers down to cover temperate lands and then has melted the glaciers so that life could return.

If you think these are rational rebuttals, then prove the Sun is a laser and / or that there is a huge magnifying glass over the equator intensely heating land and water to give us our great equator to poles winds and dramatic weather systems.

Our direct air capture approach has several advantages over other carbon removal technologies: it does not require water or depend on arable land; has a small physical footprint; and is scalable.

This may be me advertising my ignorance but if the OHC is of interest as against the SST why do we use a parameter of «global temperature» which is an amalgam of SST and air temperature over land rather than a total heat content or a temperature normalised say for mass or thermal density (normalise to the properties of water say)?

The mere interest is that it shows that La Nina episodes can dump lots of water on land, and this water rapidly makes its way back into the sea over the following 18 months or so.

Once river levels were controlled, more water stayed in the river with some of it pumped out when the farmers needed it as opposed to washing over the land during floods, whether you needed it or not.

With climate change leading to further decreases in already scarce resources like arable land and water, poor populations are going to be pushed further to, or even over, the edge.

You notice a similar thing with summer, or noontime heat over land versus water.

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Shorelines change over time due to the water rising or falling (scientifically called eustasy), or the land rising or falling (called isostasy).

However, soil isn't homogeneous with regard to water; different areas of land may flood or not flood given the same flow over them due simply to different substructure.

Based on the understanding of both the physical processes that control key climate feedbacks (see Section 8.6.3), and also the origin of inter-model differences in the simulation of feedbacks (see Section 8.6.2), the following climate characteristics appear to be particularly important: (i) for the water vapour and lapse rate feedbacks, the response of upper - tropospheric RH and lapse rate to interannual or decadal changes in climate; (ii) for cloud feedbacks, the response of boundary - layer clouds and anvil clouds to a change in surface or atmospheric conditions and the change in cloud radiative properties associated with a change in extratropical synoptic weather systems; (iii) for snow albedo feedbacks, the relationship between surface air temperature and snow melt over northern land areas during spring and (iv) for sea ice feedbacks, the simulation of sea ice thickness.

2) greenhouse warming by atmospheric gases is insignificant except over dry land because downwelling IR, which will insulate rocks or ice, does not insulate water very well.

Passive microwave data may show ice where none actually exists due to signal variation between land and water along coastlines, or because of atmospheric interference from rain or high winds over the ice - free ocean.

The impact of land use change on the energy and water balance may be very significant for climate at regional scales over time periods of decades or longer.

To produce, from incident Energy within Infrared (region) Radiation (IrR) such a rise in median temperature that could present a total rise allowing for this current ~ 0.7 degree C residual (after Conduction / Convection), with notice of the actual materials involved, would require more ENERGY to be presented within IrR than can be either observed, or survived by land surface life (over 90 % saline water) as it is seen bio-formed.

Eyewitness accounts about the time any water entered the house, the level it rose, where it came from, how it first entered the house (for example, through toilets and showers or over land), the colour of the water and whether the water increased in stages or at a steady and uniform rate.

In discussing the issue, the court noted that neither Yorta Yorta86 nor Western Australia v Ward87 suggest that using the land and waters or exercising rights over them are crucial to proving continuity.

The Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands hold exclusive native title rights over most of the claimed area - approximately 187,000 sq km in Western Australia, stretching from the Gibson Desert Nature Reserve to the South Australian border.47 The Peoples of the Ngaanyatjarra Lands also hold non-exclusive rights over an unvested reserve in the claim area including rights to: enter and remain on reserved land; take flora and fauna; take water for personal, domestic or non-commercial communal purposes; take other natural resources such as ochre, stones, soils, wood and resin; and care for and protect sites of significance.

parties who hold an interest in relation to land or waters, at the time the agreement is being made, in any part of the area over which the determination is being made; and

It is not necessary to gain the agreement of parties to proceedings whose interests in land or waters is outside of the area over which parties have agreed to a determination of native title (even where the interest is within the wider claim area).

It is difficult to understand, time consuming to submit to all the different agencies, if we had one regional agreement or treaty over our traditional lands and waters which goes over two states then we would be able to access these departments and have a proper plan that brings in all our aspirations for our people including economic development.

Claimant application means an application made by Aboriginal people or Torres Strait Islanders under the Native Title Act 1993 (Cth)(Native Title Act) for a determination that native title exists over a particular area of land or waters (Native Title Act, s 61 (1)-RRB-.

However, a sUAS may be operated from a moving land or water - borne vehicle if the sUAS is: 1) flown over a sparsely populated area; and 2) not transporting another person's property for compensation or hire.

We have to pause here and take stock and take the time to think this through as a society... or we could end up with thousands of giant industrial wind turbines over great swaths of prime agricultural land and beautiful countryside and we don't know enough about what this could mean in terms of human health, agricultural land health, animal health, water table health, wildlife health, property value health, property tax health and so on.

Texas allows licensed real estate brokers to use a drone to capture property images in connection with the marketing, sale, or financing of real property, and insurance company employees or affiliates may capture images using an unmanned aircraft in connection with an insurance policy or claim regarding real property or a structure on property.14 In Louisiana, the use of a drone for the purpose of spying upon others or otherwise invading the privacy of others is a criminal offense.15 Use of a drone in the space above property with intent to conduct surveillance constitutes «remaining in or upon property» or «entering upon immovable property» under the offense of criminal trespass.16 South Dakota passed a law making it a misdemeanor to land a drone on lands or water of another resident.17 The owner or lessee of the drone is liable for damage resulting from a forced landing of the drone.18 In Oregon, a property owner may bring a claim for invasion of privacy against a drone operator who flies over their property without permission (unless the drone operator complied with FAA requirements).19