Sentences with phrase «weather these cycles of»

This is one of the reasons that squirrels, scrub jays, and acorn woodpeckers store seed as a way to weather these cycles of abundance.

This volume reproduces her epic treatment of the four seasons, inspired by the weather cycles of Rio, where winter registers as a change in mood rather than in temperature: «it's still hot, but nobody goes to the beach, simply because it is winter.»

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But she still thinks «old money tech» — like Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL)-- «that historically have been able to weather any rise in interest rates will be direct beneficiaries of this capital expenditure spending cycle that we anticipate as we move into 2015 and 2016.»

One of the main contributing factors to farm cycles is the weather.

There are a number of factors behind this seasonal weakness, including harsh winter weather, idiosyncrasies in the corporate capital expenditures cycle and the timing of monetary policy changes since the crisis.

Establishing an account early allows savings to be invested over the course of multiple market cycles, giving assets time to grow and weather market swings.

The issues that have dominated news cycles in recent weeks — North Korea, along with extreme weather in the southern United States — should not obscure the robust underlying fundamentals of the US economy, in our view.

A wintry sort of spirituality does not literally trace the cycles of the seasons and is not a weather report or an observation on the climate.

This time around, I think the combination of having to set aside plans repeatedly due to weather, feeling trapped at home, and the end of a successful training cycle and race (my first marathon), all culminated in a bit of feeling glum and fearful about the what's next — as I inevitably tend to be fearful that there's no way I can possibly live up to my own expectations in each new year.

In addition to giving their patrons plenty of TLC, independent operators should stay on top of industry developments so they are better prepared to weather its inevitable up - and - down cycles.

During a standard week I will cycle down to the river for a couple of morning sessions, where I'll check the river and weather conditions, and that the clubs are being safe and fair, as we have 36 college boat clubs all sharing the same short stretch of river, which three external clubs also use.

The first game introduced a full day / night cycle to the series for the first time, but Horizon 2 goes further, throwing dynamic weather into the mix, meaning the game's new location of the Cote d'Azur will be lashed by rain and shrouded in mist as well as providing beautiful sunsets and starry night skies.

With each passing day, each passing week, my emotional weather went through it's ongoing cycle of fear and gloom, then hope and serenity.

You should also note that some of these ovulation test predictor kits can be affected by other external and internal stimuli in your body like weather and illness, same as ovulation cycle.

One of us wore baby Allie in the Baby Carrier One Outdoors almost every day of the trip — including while cycling on a tricked - out pedicab, searching for street art in Penang's 100 - degree weather, monkeying around with primates in Bali, hiking up the 1200 - year - old stone steps of Borobudur, and so much more.

Awareness of extreme weather rises Ray Gaesser, chairman of the American Soybean Association, said farmers were sometimes reluctant to talk about climate change because they saw variations in weather on a regular basis and current weather patterns could be part of cycle that would eventually fix itself.

They also used a physically based computer model of the hydrologic cycle, which takes daily weather observations and computes the snow accumulation, melting, and runoff to estimate the total snowpack in the western U.S.

Seasonal weather fluctuations also depend on factors such as proximity to oceans or other large bodies of water, currents in those oceans, El Nino / ENSO and other oceanic cycles, and prevailing winds.

«These observations will hopefully help us better understand the life cycle of solar prominences and their connection with the rest of the heliosphere, ultimately providing a better insight into how to protect ourselves against damaging space weather,» Labrosse says.

Field measurements of tree death since last year's drought are also needed to refine the estimate of the weather event's impact on the carbon cycle.

Charlie's research told him that during El Niño weather cycles, the surface seawaters in the Great Barrier Reef lagoon, already heated to unusually high levels by greenhouse gas — induced warming, were being pulsed from a mass of ocean water known as the Western Pacific Warm Pool onto the reef's delicate living corals.

During the last three years, though, the sun's cycle of activity has hit a trough, and as Murtagh observes, space weather is temporarily calm.

According to researchers at Aalto University, Finland, large - scale weather cycles, such as the one related to the El Niño phenomenon, affect two - thirds of the world's cropland.

For example, the deep sea is a key player in our planet's carbon cycle, capturing a substantial amount of human - emitted carbon which impacts both weather and climate.

Researchers recently demonstrated that the 11 - year cycle of solar activity influences weather in the tropical Pacific Ocean.

This year seemed like a perfect opportunity for the brant population to thrive but the only problem was that this fortuitous weather cycle also coincided with a dramatic drop in the lemming population which cycles every 3 - 4 years and which are the other main food source of the Arctic fox.

Derived from a Spanish word meaning «direct» or straight ahead,» it describes a forward - moving band of turbulent weather that feeds on the warm, moist air in front of it, creating a cycle of warming and cooling that can whip up violent winds and drive itself for hundreds of miles in a single direction.

«Philippine coastal zone research reveals tropical cyclone disruption of nutrient cycling: How cycads weather the storms.»

Astronomers at the University of Toronto, York University and Queen's University Belfast used measurements of the phase variations of six exoplanets obtained by the Kepler space telescope to forecast their daily weather cycle.

«We determined the weather on these alien worlds by measuring changes as the planets circle their host stars, and identifying the day - night cycle,» said Lisa Esteves, a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, and lead author of the study published today in The Astrophysical Journal.

Those changes may include the loss of Arctic summer sea ice, the collapse of ice sheets in Greenland and western Antarctica, dieback of the Amazon rainforest and changes in the jet stream and the pattern of El Niño and La Niña weather cycles.

Titan is the only other body in the solar system to show evidence of an active weather cycle, where liquid evaporates from lakes to form clouds, and rains back down to the surface, forming rivers and channels.

Predicting how increasing atmospheric CO2 will affect the hydrologic cycle, from extreme weather forecasts to long - term projections on agriculture and water resources, is critical both to daily life and to the future of the planet.

The National Weather Service outlooks, and most climate models, focus primarily on the connection between El Nino / La Nina (cycles of warmer and cooler water temperatures in the tropical Pacific Ocean) and weather in the continental U.S..

My co-authors and I have argued in previous papers that climate cycles on early Mars could have been driven by oscillations in the carbonate - silicate cycle, which would have provided transient warming from the accumulation of greenhouse gases by volcanoes and subsequent loss by weathering.

But despite that steady climb, not every year is warmer than the one before it, thanks to the vagaries of weather, the influence of natural climate cycles, and the effects of events like volcanic eruptions.

Although a significant natural influence on weather patterns, the temperature effects of the cycle smooth out over years and decades, and aren't linked to the overall warming trend.

Plants are major contributors to the chemical weathering of continental rocks, a key process in the carbon cycle that regulates Earth's atmosphere and climate over millions of years.

The U.S. press is either woefully ignorant of the state of the science, or is deliberately trying to find explanations for various regional weather and climate changes that don't involve any mention of «global warming» — and that approach relies on the «natural cycle» argument.

Although Frank J. Schwartz, a shark biologist with the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, says there's too much natural variability in weather cycles to blame the recent shark attacks on global warming, George H. Burgess, the director of the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

El Niños are part of a recurring weather cycle that is beyond the control of humanity and appears to have occurred for millennia.

Although it may be too soon to say definitively whether there is a link between climate change and ENSO, the research points towards an intensification of the cycle, bringing more extreme weather to many regions of the globe.

It is important to note that any potential effects will be spatially and temporally variable, depending on current forest conditions, local site characteristics, environmental influences, and annual and decadal patterns of climate variability, such as the El Niño - Southern Oscillation cycle, which can drive regional weather and climate conditions.

It's also where the jet stream influences weather and the water cycle over most of the world's population.

This new group of scientists find some weather disturbances were not from the El Nino, La Nina cycle, but apparently regulated by conditions in the Arctic — things like low sea ice, low or shorter season snow cover, and even «sudden stratospheric warming».

I'm looking at the winter temps from 80 N this year (continuing toasty, relatively), and thinking about ENSO — neutral is now favored through spring — and remembering a) that the weather last year was rather unremarkable for melt and b) we're still at the height of the solar cycle, more or less.

Surfing has made me aware of the weather, water temperature, tides, the cycles of the moon, shifts in the sand, and wildlife in the water.

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I personally cycle through many kinds of exercise that I enjoy, and like to keep it fresh by trying new things all the time — but body weight workouts are something I have relied on my whole life to keep me in the game during interim periods, when the weather was bad, when I was traveling, or as a simple, low - maintenance way to just get my shred on when the gym felt too far away.

«In situations like New York has had this year --[with cold and warm weather alternating instead of a gradual progression to warmer temperatures]-- trees will bloom because they're dependent on the light cycle, not the temperature,» Ponda explained.