Sentences with phrase «regions near the poles»

A new study has revealed that ozone levels in the heavily populated lower latitudes don't seem to be recovering as well as regions near the poles.

The total amount CO2 as solid could cover the Earth almost 100 meter thick, but liquid and solid CO2 would limited to regions near the poles.

The number of species increases exponentially from the regions near the poles across the moderate latitudes and to the equator.

Not exact matches

As Titan lacks its own magnetic field the same thing can occur over wider regions, not just near the poles.

TESS will mostly search for planets elsewhere in the sky away from Proxima Centauri, near the ecliptic poles, regions directly above and below our solar system that are easy to continuously monitor with most space telescopes.

This image, shot September 11 as Cassini swung past the moon at a distance of about 119,049 kilometers, shows Titan's lake region near its north pole.

A dark region near its north pole, dubbed Mordor, might be the result of gases from Pluto's atmosphere condensing on the moon's surface.

Conditions near Earth's poles can be pretty harsh, but the storms over Saturn's polar regions blow them away.

Among other things, giant cell circulation helps transport energy from the sun's polar regions to its equator, where material rotates around the sun about 10 days faster than it does near the poles.

Regions at the planet's equator seem once to have been near a pole; possibly the entire lithosphere has shifted in relation to the axis of spin.

Powerful solar storms can charge up the soil in frigid, permanently shadowed regions near the lunar poles, and may possibly produce «sparks» that could vaporize and melt the soil, perhaps as much as meteoroid impacts, according to NASA - funded research.

The team was especially interested in regions near the north and south poles, because the polar ice caps are the planet's largest known reservoir of water.

The idea that Mercury might have frozen water emerged in the 1990s, when Earth - based radar telescopes detected highly reflective regions inside several craters near Mercury's poles.

Comparing these two images, it can be seen that the terrain near the south pole is more heavily cratered while some of the region near the north pole shows less cratered, smooth plains material, consistent with the general observations of the poles made by Mariner 10.

Bertie, who belongs to a vacationing colleague, investigated the nether regions of a corgi mix near the bank, relieved himself briefly on a light pole while approaching the post office and performed an impressive tree - side No. 2 — complete with vigorous hind leg back kicks — as a grand finale toward the journey's pooper scooper end.

Satellite altimetry measures the level of the entire ocean, except for regions near coastlines on near the poles, where satellites can not measure,

As the cycle builds the opposing flux which is left over from the sunspot polarity region that is closest to the pole (spots are always tilted), builds towards the poles before they cancel out near cycle max then build again with an opposite polarity.

As the diverted air in the troposphere moves toward the poles, it tends to retain the angular momentum of the near - equatorial region, which is large as a result of Earth's rotation.

By contrast, air temperatures over the Antarctic region for the same period were above average in some areas, such as the Antarctic Peninsula and near the pole, but below average in others.

Winds created aloft circulate around a large region of upper - level low pressure near each of the poles.

In 1946 British physicists Alan Brewer and Gordon Dobson [3] devised a model of very slow, convective, stratospheric ozone transport from the equator to the poles (Fig 1), explaining why more ozone is found in polar regions than near the equator where more solar radiation occurs.

Observations from these regions show much less glacial amplification than near the poles but do exhibit similar nonlinear relationships with greatly enhanced fluxes for extreme glacial temperatures (Figs. 1 and 3).

There are thriving ecosystems in the frigid regions near the earth's south pole, but what would happen if the entire globe became that climate in one century or even several?

-- Tropical — occur near the equator, in low latitudes — Temperate — occur about halfway between the equator and the poles, in the middle latitudes — Polar — occur near the poles, in the high latitudes — Dry — occurs at many different latitudes — Highland — occurs at many different latitudes Geographers divide some climate zones into more specific climate regions.