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high and southern
The high southern and eastern plateaus, rarely falling below, have a mean elevation of about.
The southern and western parts of the country have a Mediterranean climate while inland areas and areas with high elevation experience short, cool summers and long, severe winters.
Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.
There is no evidence of mass extinction of these organisms, and there is support for high productivity of these species in southern high latitudes as a result of cooling temperatures in the early Paleocene.
While Centaurus now has a high southern latitude, at the dawn of civilization it was an equatorial constellation.
In southern California, coyotes frequently kill gray foxes, and these smaller canids tend to avoid areas with high coyote densities.
* Vaccinium erythrocarpum or Oxycoccus erythrocarpus ( Southern Mountain Cranberry ) native to southeastern North America at high altitudes in the southern Appalachian Mountains, and also in eastern Asia.
The artisans and blacksmiths of Iberia in what is now southern Spain and southwestern France produced various iron daggers and swords of high quality from the 5th to the 3rd century BC, in ornamentation and patterns influenced by Greek, Punic ( Carthaginian ), and Phoenician culture.
Many ENSO linkages exist in the high southern latitudes around Antarctica.
Freyja's name appears in numerous place names in Scandinavia, with a high concentration in southern Sweden.
The most important formations are the Cretaceous Chalk, exposed as the high ground in the north and west of the county, forming the Chiltern Hills and the younger Palaeocene, Reading Beds and Eocene, London Clay which occupy the remaining southern part.
May, June and July are the sunniest months, with upwards of 200 hours of bright sunshine being recorded on average, southern Bute benefiting from a particularly high level of sunny days.
Summer extremes reach as high as in the southern Gobi region and in Ulaanbaatar.
* 2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 ; eight of the deaths are at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama.
These were used to manufacture early tools and weapons, for example, high quality flint found in northern France and southern England was used to create flint tools.
Above the bhabhar belt, the Siwaliks rise to about with peaks as high as, steeper on their southern flanks because of faults known as the Main Frontal Thrust.
The southern region of Nigeria experiences a double rainfall maxima characterised by two high rainfall peaks, with a short dry season and a longer dry season falling between and after each peaks.
With the Intertropical Convergence Zone ( ITCZ ) swinging northward over West Africa from the Southern Hemisphere in April, heavy showers coming from pre-monsoonal convective clouds mainly in the form of squall lines also known as the north easterlies formed mainly as a result of the interactions of the two dominant airmasses in Nigeria known as the Maritime tropical ( south westerlies ) and the Continental tropical ( north easterlies ), begins in central Nigeria while the Monsoons from the south atlantic ocean arrives in central Nigeria in July bringing with it high humidity, heavy cloud cover and heavy rainfall which can be daily occurrence lasting till September when the monsoons gradually begin retreating southward to the southern part of Nigeria. Rainfall totals in central Nigeria varies from in the lowlands of the river Niger Benue trough to over along the south western escarpment of the Jos Plateau.
However, the overall column amounts are greater in the northern hemisphere high latitudes than in the southern hemisphere high latitudes.
HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, is currently a pandemic, with infection rates as high as 25 % in southern and eastern Africa.
Three main long-distance footpaths run the length of the mountain range ; the GR 10 across the northern slopes, the GR 11 across the southern slopes, and the HRP which traverses peaks and ridges along a high altitude route.
Rock Bridge High School is a public high school located in southern Columbia, Missouri.

high and hemisphere
Chile developed a good export economy, including the export of fruits and vegetables to the northern hemisphere when they were out of season, and commanded high prices.
Temperate needleleaf forests mostly occupy the higher latitude regions of the northern hemisphere, as well as high altitude zones and some warm temperate areas, especially on nutrient-poor or otherwise unfavourable soils.
Thus, clockwise air circulation is characteristic of high pressure weather cells in the northern hemisphere.
Increased level of right hemisphere activation has also been found in people who have high levels of paranormal beliefs and in people who report mystical experiences.
The taiga in the river valley near Verkhoyansk, Russia, at 67 ° N, must deal with the coldest winter temperatures in the northern hemisphere, but the extreme continentality of the climate gives an average daily high of 22 ° C in July.
The high level gases reflect sunlight and cause the widespread cooling ( known as a volcanic winter ) and heavy rains of 1816, causes snows in June and July in the northern hemisphere, widespread crop failures, and subsequently famine, which is why 1816 is later known as the Year Without a Summer.
The high plains found on Triton's eastern hemisphere, such as Cipango Planum, cover over and blot out older features, and are therefore almost certainly the result of icy lava washing over the previous landscape.
Monsoon troughing in the western Pacific reaches its latitudinal zenith in each hemisphere above and below the equator during the late summer when the wintertime surface high pressure ridge in the opposite hemisphere is strongest.
Growing from 20 to 45 m tall, they are native to much of the cooler temperate northern hemisphere, on lowlands in the north and high on mountains further south.
The school district came into effect in the northern hemisphere fall 2008 ; at the time Saraland Elementary and Adams Middle were now a part of the city district, but high schoolers had to attend county schools because Saraland High School was not yet open.
Stars ( and constellations ) that are circumpolar in one hemisphere are always invisible in the high latitudes of the opposite hemisphere, and these never rise above the horizon.
For a single high explosive lens to generate a concave wave that envelops an entire hemisphere, it must either be very long or the part of the wave on a direct line from the detonator to the pit must be slowed dramatically.
The climate is cold, wet and windy with average high temperatures between and in July, the southern hemisphere winter.
When the Mothership returns to Kharak, the entire northern hemisphere is blackened, with fires visible from high orbit and no life left on the planet.
Like the eutherian ruminants of the northern hemisphere ( sheep, cattle, and so on ), macropods have specialised digestive systems that use a high concentration of bacteria, protozoans, and fungi in the first chamber of a complex stomach to digest plant material.
The projection effect can be used in architecture to design buildings that are cool in summer and warm in winter, by providing large vertical windows on the equator-facing side of the building ( the south face in the northern hemisphere, or the north face in the southern hemisphere ): this maximizes insolation in the winter months when the Sun is low in the sky, and minimizes it in the summer when the noonday Sun is high in the sky.
The coriolis force caused by the Earth's rotation is what gives winds within high-pressure systems their clockwise circulation in the northern hemisphere ( as the wind moves outward and is deflected right from the center of high pressure ) and anticlockwise circulation in the southern hemisphere ( as the wind moves outward and is deflected left from the center of high pressure ).

high and latitudes
Although the lowest salinity values are just north of the equator ( because of heavy tropical rainfall ), in general the lowest values are in the high latitudes and along coasts where large rivers enter.
The coldest zones are in high latitudes, with the coldest regions corresponding to the areas covered by sea ice.
At high latitudes, north of the main zone of boreal forest or taiga, growing conditions are not adequate to maintain a continuous closed forest cover, so tree cover is both sparse and discontinuous.
Galileo is intended to provide horizontal and vertical positions measurements within 1 meter precision, and better positioning services at high latitudes than other positioning systems.
This enabled the passage of more UV light into the body at high latitudes, facilitating the natural human body-process of manufacturing vitamin D ( which is essential for bone development ) in response to said light.
During solar proton events, ionization can reach unusually high levels in the D-region over high and polar latitudes.
( Think high latitudes in summer: long days, short to no nights.
These were diffuse filamentary clouds that are visible at high galactic latitudes ( looking out of the plane of the galactic disc ).
At high latitudes, the magnetic field lines are push backwards and over the polar regions.
** Light level reduction of 0 % in low latitudes to 90 % in high smoke injection areas
While most of the ozone is indeed created over the tropics, the stratospheric circulation then transports it poleward and downward to the lower stratosphere of the high latitudes.
The high ozone concentrations at high latitudes are due to the accumulation of ozone at lower altitudes.
Very light snow is known to occur at high latitudes on Mars.
A competing theory to explain the presence of ice on the equatorial continents was that the Earth's axial tilt was quite high, in the vicinity of 60 °, which would place the Earth's land in high " latitudes ", although supporting evidence is scarce.

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