Sentences with phrase «tropical atmosphere of»

The swimming - pool available in each villa is a place where you can relax with your soul mate while enjoying the warm of tropical atmosphere of Bali Island.

Relax and soak up the tropical atmosphere of Broome from the

The tropical atmosphere of the home was very nice.

The units capture the relaxed tropical atmosphere of the island and are designed to suit all accommodation needs.

The wonderful, tropical atmosphere of St. Barts» compliments the timeless, subtle elegance of the estate.

It is also the perfect place to relax, unwind and enjoy the tropical atmosphere of this magical destination.

Set on the Yui Rail located at the southernmost point of Japan, players operate a train traveling along an elevated monorail amidst the tropical atmosphere of Okinawa.

Not exact matches

Whether it is the sprawl of deserts or the loss of tropical forests as the world's poor cut trees for firewood and clear land for agriculture, or the ineluctable warming of the planet as vehicles and factories deposit millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, «economic pressures lie behind them all» (Tolba 1991, p. 10).

After the Reef's world debut in Milan last May, the prestige paper innovator will bring the tropical sea atmosphere also in the halls of Packaging Innovations and Luxury Packaging London, taking place from 13 - 14 September at Olympia in London.

For a tropical country like Ghana, the reduction of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere involves reducing deforestation, reforestation, and exploring affordable and sustainable alternatives to fuel wood.

Considered, until now, a source of greenhouse gas emissions, capturing the CO2 fixed by the tropical forest through the soils of the watershed to release it into the atmosphere, the Amazon River actually has a balanced carbon footprint.

As trees die and decompose, the concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will increase, potentially speeding up climate change during tropical droughts.»

Betts has performed new calculations to show how many parts per million of CO2 (and CO2 equivalent for other greenhouse gases) will end up in the atmosphere if tropical forests were totally deforested.

This deep convection, the most conspicuous feature of the tropical circulation, in the company of precipitation transports latent heat from the earth's surface to the upper atmosphere.

Found along the edges of much of the world's tropical coastlines, mangroves are absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at an impressive rate.

The research shows that a one degree rise in tropical temperature leads to around two billion extra tonnes of carbon being released per year into the atmosphere from tropical ecosystems, compared with the same tropical warming in the 1960s and 1970s.

The model was developed recently by the US government's National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to make use of new sea and wind data collected from instruments moored across the Pacific as part of the international Tropical Ocean / Global Atmosphere (TOGA) research programme.

Destruction of tropical rain forests, however, would significantly increase the concentration of carbon dioxide — the most important greenhouse gas — in the atmosphere by 26 percent.

A few research years later and after the involvement of other colleagues came confirmation: Markus Rex and his team on board the «Sonne» had tracked down a giant natural hole over the tropical South Seas, situated in a special layer of the lower atmosphere known as the «OH shield.»

A surprising recent rise in atmospheric methane likely stems from wetland emissions, suggesting that much more of the potent greenhouse gas will be pumped into the atmosphere as northern wetlands continue to thaw and tropical ones to warm, according to a new international study led by a University of Guelph researcher.

Although the distribution of these emissions is still uncertain, measurements have indicated that the tropical oceans could be major sources, lofting them into the atmosphere where they can ultimately contribute to reactions that control tropospheric and stratospheric ozone.

The next step was see how those factors were influenced by ENSO; while El Niños and La Niñas are defined by how much warmer or colder than normal tropical Pacific ocean waters are, they trigger a cascade of reactions in the atmosphere that can alter weather patterns around the globe.

The researchers have predicted that increasing smog would prevent as much as 263 billion metric tons of carbon from being taken out of the atmosphere by plants over the past and coming century, though this depends on how tropical plants respond to O3 pollution.

But the local warming is just part of an intricate set of changes in the ocean and atmosphere across the tropical Pacific, which covers a third of the Earth's circumference.

«The tropical Pacific ocean - atmosphere system has been called a sleeping dragon because of how it can influence climate elsewhere,» said lead author Aradhna Tripati, a UCLA assistant professor in the departments of Earth, planetary and space sciences, and atmospheric and oceanic sciences.

The scientists investigated the waters near Guam last winter using three different high - tech aircraft to collect air samples and examine the abundance, distribution and transformation of various gases in the tropical atmosphere.

One theory is that heat from tropical rain warms parts of the Earth's upper atmosphere in ways that favor the formation of the classic «wavenumber - 5» pattern that has alternately drenched and dried parts of California.

«Our estimates revealed that each year about 0.3 to 1.4 megatons of nitrous oxide are emitted to the atmosphere from the oxygen minimum zone in the tropical Southeast Pacific.

With the rise of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere, understanding the climate of tropical forests — the Amazon in particular — has become a critical research area.

It is produced naturally by soils, with agricultural and tropical rain forest soils being the main sources of N2O to the atmosphere.

This work has been supported by the NOPP project «Advanced coupled atmosphere - wave - ocean modeling for improving tropical cyclone prediction models» (PIs: Isaac Ginis, URI and Shuyi Chen, UM) and by the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) Consortium for Advanced Research on the Transport of Hydrocarbons in the Environment — CARTHE (PI: Tamay Özgökmen, UM).

El Nino is a disruption of the ocean - atmosphere system in the tropical Pacific with important consequences for weather around the globe.

A detailed, long - term ocean temperature record derived from corals on Christmas Island in Kiribati and other islands in the tropical Pacific shows that the extreme warmth of recent El Niño events reflects not just the natural ocean - atmosphere cycle but a new factor: global warming caused by human activity.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Without this elastic property of the atmosphere, the temperatures in tropical regions would be higher than we observe since the volume of the atmosphere would would be less as described by PV = nRT.

«If we don't stop burning fossil fuel and cutting down our tropical forests — all those human activities that maintain our society — we're going to reach incredibly high levels of carbon dioxide in our atmosphere.

Tropical rainforests absorb huge amounts of carbon dioxide, but because slash - and - burn deforestation releases so much of the greenhouse gas into the atmosphere, the tropics are a wash for carbon, according to a new study.

However, radiation changes at the top of the atmosphere from the 1980s to 1990s, possibly related in part to the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon, appear to be associated with reductions in tropical upper - level cloud cover, and are linked to changes in the energy budget at the surface and changes in observed ocean heat content.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

Despite consistently warm waters, tropical cyclones in the Arabian Sea typically don't reach the higher end of the hurricane scale because winds in the upper atmosphere tend to cut them off.

Dr Pep Canadell, from the Global Carbon Project and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, says in the journal Science that tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon each year into the atmosphere.

«If by 2050 we slow deforestation by 50 per cent from current levels, with the aim of stopping deforestation when we have 50 per cent of the world's tropical forests remaining, this would save the emission of 50 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere.

Scientists report in the journal Science that tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon each year into the atmosphere.

Now we have a number for the amount of carbon lost from tropical forests to the atmosphere each year: 425 million metric tons.

They found increases in sea surface temperature and upper ocean heat content made the ocean more conducive to tropical cyclone intensification, while enhanced convective instability made the atmosphere more favorable for the growth of these storms.

The world's tropical forests are releasing their masses of carbon into an already over-loaded atmosphere.

Forests and other land vegetation currently remove up to 30 percent of human carbon dioxide emissions from the atmosphere during photosynthesis, but thanks to this latest study, experts now know that we have tropical forests to thank for a great deal of this work - absorbing a whopping 1.4 billion metric tons of CO2 out of a total total global absorption of 2.5 billion metric tons.

The Tropical Atmosphere Ocean (TAO) array consists of approximately 70 buoys deployed in a grid across the equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean.

Some things we might do if we got desperate enough: scrub greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere technologically, geo - engineering to create cooling effects to offset greenhouse heating, [SLIDE 42] lots of adaptation policies, cropping patterns, heat drought and salt - resistant crops, strengthen public health and environmental engineering defenses against tropical disease, new water projects for flood control and drought management, dyke storm surge barriers, avoiding further development on flood plains in near sea level.

Injecting particles into the atmosphere would deflect some of the sun's incoming radiation, but a new study predicts it would also likely alter tropical storm patterns in the Atlantic and increase the risk of drought in Africa.