Sentences with phrase «vegetated liveroof»

Personal: we loved the screened porch / marsh view; granddaughters (7 & 10) read all the decor plaques (loved «Beach Your Children Well»); vegetated on the inlet beach = dolphins & small jumping fish appeared every day.

Green roofs are defined by the GSA as vegetated roofs consisting of «a waterproofing membrane, growing medium (soil) and vegetation (plants) overlying a traditional roof.»

The other evening I vegetated on the couch to catch up on a few old programs I'd TiVo'd.

Property owners who are challenging the Norfolk Wetlands Board's recent demand that they obtain a permit in order to continue mowing vegetated wetlands on their property can not have the court determine the wetlands boundaries on their property, and the Norfolk...

One example of the German groups is the Deutscher Dachgartner - Verband (German Roof - Gardening Association), which has been advocating greenroofs since 1984 and provides up - to - date information on new developments in vegetated roof cover design in Europe to its many members.

In addition to incorporating usual green components like solar panels and wind turbines, it also features greenroofs, above and below grade treatment cisterns, and most notably, vegetated street treatment swales.

An international team of 32 authors from 24 institutions in eight countries led the effort, which involved using satellite data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer instruments to help determine the leaf area index, or amount of leaf cover, over the planet's vegetated regions.

Largely off topic but maybe relevant: From some recent reading I have done, I understand that in the BC era Spain, Italy, and Greece were heavily forested and vegetated, and had a wet sub tropical climate.

Barriers between the traffic and the garden, such as thickly vegetated areas or buildings, reduced the levels of cadmium, chromium, lead, and zinc found in the vegetables.

Contrary to our experience on Isabela, Fernandina is sparsely vegetated, and by mostly mangroves in a ring around the island.

There is a large annual cycle of CO2 over vegetated areas, so looking at one month, it is easy to be fooled.

A green roof, often called vegetated roofs or rooftop gardens, has become an increasingly popular choice for aesthetic and environmental reasons.

Looking strictly at the economic costs and benefits of three different roof types — black, white and «green» (or vegetated)-- Berkeley Lab researchers have found in a new study that white roofs are the most cost - effective over a 50 - year time span.

The maximum occurs over vegetated areas at the beginning of the growing season, so in the NH that would be May, and in the SH, November.

Over vegetated regions, the effect on Tb of an eastward drift is a combination of tropospheric warming and surface cooling and is difficult to detect for a few hours of orbit drift in the daily average.

And our products speak for themselves with successful green roof projects on vegetated rooftops covering more than 11 million square feet.

Loss of vegetated coastal habitats should lead to a decline in pH, whilst loss in the cover of corals and oyster reefs and regime shifts towards a great dominance of macroalgae may lead to increased pH (Anthony et al. 2011).

In the tropics the more vegetated conditions inferred from pollen records in the now dry sub-Saharan regions indicate wetter conditions due to enhanced summer monsoons (see Braconnot et al., 2004 for a review).

Often referred to as grey infrastructure alternatives, these practices include the design, installation and maintenance of vegetated green roofs and walls, bioswales and infiltration gardens (rain gardens, etc.), urban forests, green streets and pervious pavements.

In the real world, we would expect the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to be nearly eliminated and replaced by partially vegetated surfaces already at 2 × CO2 (620 ppm) equilibrium climate.

A particularly instructive example is the Sahel region of Africa, which switched from vegetated land that supported cattle to unproductive desert within 5 years beginning about 1965, causing widespread famine and an international crisis in the region that continues to be a problem today.

Measurements of the temperature under each type of roof, as well as the ambient outdoor temperature are collected at 4 minute intervals throughout the day, to develop a profile of how the roof membranes perform relative to each other, as well as in comparison to the vegetated roof.

A rainwater catchment system is connected to the irrigation system for the vegetated roof, as well.

Part of the decision was based on what would work structurally with the existing building roof, so the lightest weight vegetated systems were placed where the roof could only support the lighter weight, and deeper, heavier vegetated assemblies were then placed in other areas where there was additional support capacity.

Instead of just adding insulation to improve thermal performance and using a single roofing system to cover it, the roof on A3C's building is an experimental lab to study a variety of roofing options, including both flat roof membranes and vegetated roof systems.

Ancient pollen samples suggest that the landscape was a bit like today's Chilean Andes: grassy tundra dotted with small trees.This vegetated period peaked during the middle Miocene, when atmospheric carbon dioxide levels were around 400 to 600 parts per million.

Most of the energy transfer from the surface of this rather wet globe is accomplished by evaporation, and heavily so in vegetated areas on land.

Satellite surveillance has shown that a significant portion (between a quarter and half) of the world's vegetated areas are becoming notably greener.

GreenScaped Buildings installed a built - up vegetated roofing assembly and planted with a combination of sedum tiles and plugs typical of extensive green roofs.

With a great cost - to - benefit ratio and significant stormwater retention, this system supports hardy succulents, vegetated blankets or pre-vegetated mats, and may require irrigation depending on the depth of the growth media.

In the article and subsequent aimiable exchange with Nordhaus, Dyson touted no fewer than three possible crackpot mega-schemes as contingency «low - cost backstops» against global warming: «carbon - eating trees» covering fully a quarter of Earth's vegetated land mass, «carbon - eating phytoplankton in the oceans», and «snow - dumping in East Antarctica» (via «a giant array of tethered kites or balloons so as to block the westerly flow on one side only.»)

The original video showed Myneni reporting 20.5 % of the Earth's vegetated land had «greened», something Ridley himself indicated in a January 4, 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal.

Ridley said Myneni had found that 31 % of the Earth's vegetated land had «greened» between 1982 and 2011, and that there had been an increase in gross productivity by 14 %, about half of which could be attributed to carbon dioxide fertilization.

In addition, Ridley did not make it clear that Myneni had suggested that 42 % of the 14 % increase in annual productivity «can be attributed to relaxation of climatic constraints to plant growth,» with «57 % to other «anthropogenic factors»,» whereas the paper published in the journal «Nature Climate Change» in April 2016 did not present a figure for annual productivity, instead concluding that 25 % to 50 % of the Earth's vegetated area had greened, with about 70 % of this trend attributable to carbon dioxide fertilization.

Where clouds are absent, darker surfaces like the ocean or vegetated land absorb heat, but where clouds occur their white tops reflect incoming sunlight away, which can cause a cooling effect on Earth's surface.

Scientific studies had, for instance, revealed an «overall expansion of desert and contraction of vegetated areas» on that continent.

A green roof — also known as a «vegetated roof,» «living roof», or «eco-roof» — is an extension of an existing roof which involves a high - quality waterproofing and root repellent system, a drainage system, filter cloth, lightweight growing medium, and plants.

However due to the effects of landscape changes and differently vegetated surfaces, local temperatures often respond very differently and the minimum temperatures are especially sensitive to different surface conditions.1, 2

We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25 % to 50 % of the global vegetated area, whereas less than 4 % of the globe shows decreasing LAI (browning).

15 - 17 lbs / sf saturated and vegetated LiveRoof Standard Module Saturated Weight: Appx.

National Research Canada has published a Wind - Roof Calculator on Internet for vegetated roofs to calculate roof cladding wind loads and vegetated roof assembly design parameters based on the National Building Code of Canada 2015.

15 Using an infrared thermometer, I have observed the dawn temperatures within vegetated areas are 10 to 20 °F cooler than surfaces just 20 feet away on paved and gravel country roads, instrumentally confirming that cooler tree ring temperatures are more accurately measuring natural climate change.

27 - 29 lbs / sf saturated and vegetated.

60 - 65 lbs / sf saturated and vegetated, when filled with LiveRoof Engineered Soil

As everyone knows who has heard him speak, the soft - spoken yet highly engaging Swiss researcher is renown the world over for his detailed studies of birds — in particular lapwings (Vanellus vanellus)-- beetles (hundreds), and others insects on vegetated roofs — and he has made many friends along the way for his passion, belief, and promotion of designing a better living roof to encourage biodiversity.

The LiveRoof system is typically vegetated with a palette of deciduous, semievergreen and evergreen «base mix» and «accent plants» that are exceptional «water conservers».

The Canadian Standards Association (CSA) launched CAN / CSA A123.24 - 15 in 2015 as a testing standard to determine response of a vegetated roof assembly (VRA) to Wind Pressure and Wind Flow.

The results confirm that the Earth is greening: «Between 1982 and 2011, 20.5 % of the world's vegetated area got greener, while just 3 % grew browner; the rest showed no change.»

The standard defines a VRA as the modular vegetated system (pre-grown vegetation in the form of modules, blankets or mats, growth media, root barrier, pavers and drainage system) and the roofing system (deck, membrane, vapor barriers, insulation coverboard, etc.).

«The Development of Revolutionary Large Scale Vegetated Infrastructure Projects in Latin America and the Foundation of a New Industry» by Pablo Atuesta.