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Guatemala is a surprisingly diverse country, with topographies ranging from black sand beaches on its Pacific coast to 30 + volcanic peaks in the central / western highlands to several beautiful lakes, equally beautiful rivers, a tropical Caribbean coast and dense jungles.

Next to Mount Wellington, a volcanic peak in Auckland, a beautiful primary school, Stonefields School, focuses on developing a learner's assessment capabilities.

Not exact matches

With an ideal geographic allocation close to the equator, high peaks and volcanic soils, the tea plant is thriving in Indonesia, but is not profitable enough compared to other cash crops.

Réunion, about 500 miles east of Madagascar, is volcanic in origin and extremely mountainous, with peaks over ten thousand feet high.

Over the course of time, this may have led to peaks in deep mantle melting and possibly to major volcanic events at the Earth's surface.

«Arsia Mons was creating about one volcanic vent every 1 to 3 million years at the peak, compared to one every 10,000 years or so in similar regions on Earth.»

«We estimate that the peak activity for the volcanic field at the summit of Arsia Mons probably occurred approximately 150 million years ago — the late Jurassic period on Earth — and then died out around the same time as Earth's dinosaurs,» said Jacob Richardson, a postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.

Over the history of the planet, there have been many sudden peaks in CO2 related to volcanic eruptions, releases from hydrothermal vents, and other natural events.

The height of exploration may have occurred at the peak of cooling: Starting in the late 16th century, a series of volcanic eruptions likely chilled the Northern Hemisphere by as much as 1.8 degrees Celsius below the long - term average, White says.

The study, published online today in Nature Communications, used sophisticated climate model simulations to show that El Niño tends to peak during the year after large volcanic eruptions like the one at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines in 1991.

At its peak, Cantona, located in a dry, volcanic basin (La Cuenca Oriental) east of today's Mexico City, was one of the largest cities in the New World, with 90,000 inhabitants.

Recent inspection of the sulfate records from the European project for ice coring in Antarctica's dronning maud land (EDML) ice core reveals sulfate peaks that have been correlated to presumed YTT sulfate peaks in the North Greenland ice core project (NGRIP) and GISP2 ice cores; however, once again no volcanic material has been identified (18).

One example that I wasn't previously aware of, were the climate events of 536 AD — «dry fogs», crop failures, «dim suns» and yellow snow etc. — features consistent with a large volcanic eruption, possibly near the site of Krakatoa — and which correlates with evidence of a sulphate peak in the North GRIP ice core at the same time.

Constraining ECS from the observed responses to individual volcanic eruptions is difficult because the response to short - term volcanic forcing is strongly nonlinear in ECS, yielding only slightly enhanced peak responses and substantially extended response times for very high sensitivities (Frame et al., 2005; Wigley et al., 2005a).

The San Francisco Peaks are a volcanic mountain range in north central Arizona, just north of Flagstaff and a remnant of the former San Francisco Mountain.

Oregon's spectacular landscape includes rugged Pacific coastline, deep forests, volcanic peaks and fertile farmland, and is home to stunning Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the U.S..

Visiting the Azores means getting in touch with nature, seeing gorgeous volcanic landscapes with glistening lakes at the bottom of green - lined calderas, dangerous peaks that fall into the sea, intriguing caves that hide surprising secrets, lava tunnels that lead deep into the heart of the earth and awe - inspiring mountain trails that guide you to otherworldly craters.

Just 10 km away, from Granada is this moody volcanic mountain, whose peak is shrouded in cloud forest.

In contrast to the volcanic peaks and lush green vegetation of the majority of the archipelago, Sumba has a landscape of mainly dry and arid limestone hills, and the best time to visit is during the dry season between May and September.

Then take in the rugged beauty, dramatic volcanic peaks and tumbling waterfalls of our World Heritage Site, the Pitons, Cirques and Ramparts of La Réunion.

In addition to an abundance of local crafts and traditions for travellers to discover, there are breath - taking natural environments to explore including lush rainforest and the island's famous two volcanic peaks, the Pitons.

Guest of La Iguana Perdida are able to learn to dive in a volcanic lake, swim or kayak, study Spanish with local teachers, hike to waterfalls, or scale volcanic peaks.

Formed by underwater volcanic activity, the island is roughly triangular in outline and emerges from the ocean as a giant, twin - peaked mesa with steep cliffs.

Caldera de Bandama is a volcanic crater that is 1000 metres in diameter, 200 metres deep and its highest peak is an enormous 569 metres high.

Bali: Spa Village Tembok This secluded luxury spa in beautiful Bali blends exquisitely into the island's natural landscape of lush vegetation, spectacular volcanic peaks, and a unique black - sand beach.

* Lake Atitlan, a huge crater lake that's considered by many to be the most beautiful lake in the world and which is dotted by lakeside villages and rimmed by volcanic peaks.

Along the way, spot koalas, kangaroos and even whales, zip - line your way through a treetop canopy, climb to the peak of a volcanic crater, and relax in one of the many beach and Cliffside restaurants.

The rugged coastlines rise up to vaulting volcanic peaks that make the soil as fertile as anywhere in Fiji.

Two of the most rugged, remote and uncrowded wine regions in California stretch from the crashing surf of the Pacific Ocean in Mendocino to the high desert - like volcanic peak Mount...

Two ebony volcanic peaks tower over a treasured blue - green lagoon in this island of pure earthly perfection.

Slash the waves, reach the volcanic peaks, explore the luscious jungles, Yoga and when the day ends fall into a deep slumber in your beach house!

Amongst its draws: it is English - speaking, with nonstop flights from North America; the island is gorgeous, with rainforest - carpeted volcanic peaks; the food, chocolate, and rum are delicious, And here's the point of this story: one of Saint Lucia's greatest appeals is its luxury hotels, perched in amidst mountains and beach.

These rooms have views looking out either over the gardens or the volcanic peaks which surround the area and make for an amazing view as well as the feeling in the outskirts of being in a mountainside village.

During a private cruise on beautiful Lake Taupo, take in views of the volcanic peaks of Tongariro National Park and perhaps try fishing for the lake's abundant trout.

Guatemala is rich in culture, history and natural beauty and like Belize offers Caribbean beaches and tropical rainforest as well as colourful market towns and volcanic peaks.

For those who enjoy a challenging climb, the Peak of Teide (Pico de Teide) is the highest volcanic mountain in Spain and the highest point in the Atlantic Ocean.

Hiking is another of the main attractions here, with some excellent trails in the nearby canyon of Las Angustias, as well as inland amid the stunning volcanic peaks of the Caldera de Taburiente national park and the Cumbre Vieja nature reserve.

In Banjo - Tooie there was a world called Hailfire Peaks, which had an icy side and a volcanic side, and here's the music to the icy side!

This can become difficult since the ice chronologies can only be checked by finding and definitively identifying tephra (volcanic glass shards) that can be attributed to these key eruptions; sulphate peaks in the ice are not volcano specific.

Another confirmation test would be to use a time series of stratospheric temperature as a proxy in this regard, since the stratosphere warms at volcanic eruption peaks due to the absorption of longwave radiation from below and also near - IR absorption.

One example that I wasn't previously aware of, were the climate events of 536 AD — «dry fogs», crop failures, «dim suns» and yellow snow etc. — features consistent with a large volcanic eruption, possibly near the site of Krakatoa — and which correlates with evidence of a sulphate peak in the North GRIP ice core at the same time.

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I assumed that large volcano eruption certainly an peak event in terms of the global weather - so volcanic eruption has cause it snow in summer - big global weather change.

In short high altitude areas like the Himalayas, Andes, and the Rockies and a few volcanic peaks are «short circuits» in the troposphere, where energy absorbed by the ground from solar heating can be almost immediately radiated back to deep space directly from the grounIn short high altitude areas like the Himalayas, Andes, and the Rockies and a few volcanic peaks are «short circuits» in the troposphere, where energy absorbed by the ground from solar heating can be almost immediately radiated back to deep space directly from the grounin the troposphere, where energy absorbed by the ground from solar heating can be almost immediately radiated back to deep space directly from the ground.

ENSO is short - term, and so they're seeing the predicted mid-tropospheric amplification there (if you do a tropical cut you'll see a greatly enhanced amplification for the ENSO / volcanic short - term peaks and troughs in the satellite data vs surface).

If you look at the 45N - 65N SST you can see the peak volcanic impact ~ 1918 and the more rapid recovery peaking in ~ 1940 while the SH lagged 20 years.