Sentences with phrase «summer as the continents»

An inverse type of flow develops in the summer as the continents heat more rapidly than their adjacent oceanic areas.

Not exact matches

Yes — I don't really understand AFCON — not only is it held at least twice as often as other big international sporting events, and sometimes more, if they decide they want to change the schedule, to not interfere with something else (not the players club obligations, who pay their wages, perish the thought), but it is always held at the peak of the league season, as they say it maybe raining in summer, which I also don't get, as it rains here all the time — I'm sure there are parts of Africa which have reasonable weather during the summer — it's a big continent — South Africa must be fairly clement at that time.

The Canadian - born midfielder spent most of his best days across the continent plying his trade in the Bundesliga, where he spent the good part of six years as a first - team regular at Bayern Munich before joining Manchester United for a hefty fee of # 17 million in 2007; the same summer that saw a certain Thierry Henry swap Arsenal for Barcelona for # 900,000 less.

Tedesco warns that as the Antarctic ozone hole heals in the coming decades, the winds that seal the continent from warm air will weaken and it will become much warmer in summer.

As the short Antarctic spring ends and long summer days approach, geoscientists are flocking to the frozen continent to start a new kind of exploration.

AS Argentinian scientists in Antarctica last week raced to clear an 80 000 - litre spill of fuel oil before the summer thaw, international negotiators failed again to reach agreement on making polluters on the icy continent liable in law for cleaning up their messes.

Even though participants may be scattered all over a large continent, notes French, NSF regards the summer institute as a group activity, starting with the orientation program and continuing, in some programs, with other group activities throughout Australia's winter.

There is still some discussion about how exactly this starts and ends ice ages, but many studies suggest that the amount of summer sunshine on northern continents is crucial: if it drops below a critical value, snow from the past winter does not melt away in summer and an ice sheet starts to grow as more and more snow accumulates.

In a new study, Box and a team of researchers describe the decline in ice sheet reflectivity and the reasons behind it, noting that if current trends continue, the area of ice that melts during the summer season is likely to expand to cover all of Greenland for the first time in the observational record, rather than just the lower elevations at the edges of the continent, as is the case today.

The inversion acts as a barrier to vertical convection and is largely responsible for the aridity and high frequency of fog found along the west coasts of the subtropical continents, especially in summer.

I also find it entertaining how we can have entire continents with record - breaking cold winters, summer heat is isn't even as high as the 1930s, yet somehow, each year is almost the «hottest year ever».

By the CIA's count, the human population of the fifth - largest continent swells to over 4,000 in the summer as researchers and support crews launch missions from Antarctic research stations.

Spend five glorious weeks in its barely mitigated heat, as I did last summer, then return home and refrigerate yourself in the relentless mono - temperature now anesthetizing the continent.