Sentences with phrase «scale for vegetation»
This document sets out the detailed scientific approach to evaluating the contribution of Commonwealth environmental water at the Basin scale for Vegetation.
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«We will evaluate these responses for the first time at a regional scale using remotely sensed indicators of vegetation condition and fire - induced tree mortality to measure the response of floodplain forests to inter-annual flood variability and extreme climate events,» said Marcia Macedo, a research associate at the Woods Hole Research Center.
A botany researcher at New Zealand's University of Otago and colleagues have developed a new system to map the world's «biomes» — large - scale vegetation formations — that will provide an objective method for monitoring how vegetation reacts as climate changes.
«The Illinois State Museum is deeply respected in the scientific community for the expertise of its curators and for its irreplaceable collection of archaeological, cultural, and paleontological artifacts,» says paleoecologist Jack Williams of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, who has used the Neotoma database to explore vegetation change over the past 20,000 years on a continental and global scale.
This scale of information can also be useful for applications research on the effects of droughts on natural vegetation; for example, for identifying which types of trees are most vulnerable to dying first.
The highest potential for a causal mechanism of fairy circles probably lies in some form of landscape scale, self - organizing process similar to those proposed by Rietkerk et al., Couteron and LeJeune, and Tlidi et al. [11]--[16] as patterning vegetation in a range of landscapes, especially arid ones.
As you can see below in screen captures of the graphics menu, Mass Effect: Andromeda gives you options for Ambient Occlusion, Anti-Aliasing, Chromatic Aberration, Effects Quality, Film Grain, Lighting Quality, Mesh Quality, Post-Process Effect Quality, Resolution Scaling, Shader Quality, Shadow Quality, Terrain Quality, Texture Filtering Quality, Texture Quality, and Vegetation Quality.
> very few mechanisms in nature can drill for oil or mine coal Or burn off vegetation on the scale of continents.
And compare that to the CO2 levels for the same days at Mauna Loa (or you can take data from anyware, away from local sources): Note: while we used the same scale as for Diekirch, the MLO data are the raw hourly CO2 levels, without pre - or postprocessing, thus including local influences of upwind conditions (depleted by vegetation at about -2 ppmv).
The meeting will mainly cover the following themes, but can include other topics related to understanding and modelling the atmosphere: ● Surface drag and momentum transport: orographic drag, convective momentum transport ● Processes relevant for polar prediction: stable boundary layers, mixed - phase clouds ● Shallow and deep convection: stochasticity, scale - awareness, organization, grey zone issues ● Clouds and circulation feedbacks: boundary - layer clouds, CFMIP, cirrus ● Microphysics and aerosol - cloud interactions: microphysical observations, parameterization, process studies on aerosol - cloud interactions ● Radiation: circulation coupling; interaction between radiation and clouds ● Land - atmosphere interactions: Role of land processes (snow, soil moisture, soil temperature, and vegetation) in sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) prediction ● Physics - dynamics coupling: numerical methods, scale - separation and grey - zone, thermodynamic consistency ● Next generation model development: the challenge of exascale, dynamical core developments, regional refinement, super-parametrization ● High Impact and Extreme Weather: role of convective scale models; ensembles; relevant challenges for model development
We also obtain an empirical estimate of f = 2 - 4 for the fast feedback processes (water vapor, clouds, sea ice) operating on 10 - 100 year time scales by comparing the cooling due to slow or specified changes (land ice, CO2, vegetation) to the total cooling at 18K.