Sentences with phrase «quite high latitudes»
The tree rings used for temperature are from trees at quite high latitudes, where temperature has historically been the limiting factor.
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Furthermore, the relatively high «sensitivity» from glacial to interglacial is largely driven by the change in the orbit relative to the Sun, which changes the distribution of incident solar energy into the system quite dramatically (more energy is distributed to the higher latitudes in the NH summer, in particular).
Given how global warming from CO2 is delivered prefentially over land, high latitudes, in the winter 1.1 C should be quite welcome even before considering that plants will grow faster using less water and have a longer growing season in which to do it.
As a slight variant on this, some deciduous trees that grow at high latitudes are not quite so dark and have bigger water fluxes.