low-latitude

This change, he writes, "may signal that the climate system has exceeded a critical threshold and that most low-latitude, high-altitude glaciers are likely to disappear in the near future."

The Most Endangered Glaciers 2010

"The continuing retreat of most mid to low-latitude glaciers, many having persisted for thousands of years, signals a recent and abrupt change in the Earth's climate system."

The Most Endangered Glaciers 2010

For the first time, four spacecraft flying in constellation the ESA Cluster mission, have provided unambiguous evidence of anti-parallel reconnection at high latitude on the dayside magnetopause, occurring quasi-simultaneously with a period of low-latitude component reconnection detected by the Sino-European Double Star TC-1 satellite.

Cluster Satellite Detects Rifts in Earth's Magnetic Field | Universe Today 2010

There are two generalizations that may be made from studies on latitudinal variation in growth rates: high-latitude fish populations often attain larger maximum body size than conspecifics at lower latitudes; and, although lower temperatures often reduce activity and constrain individuals to grow more slowly, they compensate by accelerating growth rate or larval development time relative to low-latitude conspecifics when raised at identical temperatures.

Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

Fish living in low-temperature, high-latitude locales would therefore be expected to compensate by increasing metabolic and growth rates at a given temperature relative to fish in high-temperature, low-latitude locales.

Approaches to projecting climate change effects on arctic fish populations 2009

Their analysis indicates that since 1997 there has been a slowdown in mid - and low-latitude stratospheric ozone losses at altitudes of 35 to 45 kilometers (km).

Future changes in ozone in the Arctic 2009

Trees are not as tall here as in low-latitude rainforests; leaves are usually smaller and more leathery, and the leaf canopy less dense.

Outer Coastal Plain Mixed Forest Province (Bailey) 2009

If diseases of the poor, low-latitude regions of the world began to reach developed countries, large amounts of capital would flow into the pharmaceuticals sector as the affluent began to demand protection — so it could prove profitable to be holding pharmaceutical stocks, although exactly which shares to buy would be influenced by laboratory discoveries that are impossible to predict.

A 401(k) for a Warming World 2007

During years in which planetary waves penetrate effectively to the stratosphere, the waves enhance the meridional Brewer-Dobson circulation, which brings more ozone from the low-latitude middle and upper stratosphere to the polar region and then down to the arctic lower stratosphere.

Factors affecting arctic ozone variability in the Arctic 2009

High-latitude, low-altitude species and populations are more sensitive (fewer protective mechanisms) to enhanced levels of UV-B radiation than low-latitude, high-altitude species and populations (more developed defense mechanisms), reflecting natural levels of exposure to UV-B radiation [12].

Effects of ultraviolet-B on forest vegetation in the Arctic 2009