Sentences with phrase «vegetated surface»

With a curvy green roof — somewhat similar to the one seen at Birchway Eco-Community — Wave House has a double - skin polycarbonate glass facade and a vegetated surface to shield against summer heat and winter cold.

We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

We show that fire weather seasons have lengthened across 29.6 million km2 (25.3 %) of the Earth's vegetated surface, resulting in an 18.7 % increase in global mean fire weather season length.

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

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.

Not exact matches

The resulting maps provide a complete characterization of how traits vary within and among over 50,000 50 km x 50 - km cells across the entire vegetated land surface.»

To - date the city counts more than 500 vegetated rooftops, totaling a surface of more than 5.5 million square feet.

A band ratio was used on the imagery to identify active mining operations and to discriminate bare surfaces from vegetated land.

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.

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.

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.

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.