Diamond's geohistorical approach certainly clarifies continental-scale history.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Guns, Germs and Steel" on PBS] Reference

The mutual interaction between continental-scale ice sheets and atmospheric stationary ….    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabett Run] Reference

Out of their 52 human populations, 49 fell distinctly into one continental-scale cluster or another.    From Wordnik.com.  [More revelations about the genetics of race] Reference

It illustrates how continental-scale land/sea/air phenomena come together to make large winter storms.    From Wordnik.com.  [tingilinde:] Reference

The Chinese government is planning a continental-scale system of canals to bring water from the south to the arid north.    From Wordnik.com.  [China’s Silver Lining] Reference

He's not going to lose New York just because it includes part of the same continental-scale mountain range that goes through West Virginia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsweek: Obama's Appalachia Problem Is Real] Reference

In contrast, as recently as 20 ky (thousand years) BP, the Arctic was in the grip of intense cold and continental-scale glaciation was at its height.    From Wordnik.com.  [Arctic climate variability prior to 100 years BP] Reference

As to the existence of a "fairly stable" climate: I presume that Benestad includes the development of continental-scale glaciers over Toronto within "fairly stable".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cohn and Lins [GRL 2005] « Climate Audit] Reference

We use a terrestrial biosphere simulation model to assess continental-scale changes in primary productivity during 2003, and their consequences for the net carbon balance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Keenan's Comment on Chuine « Climate Audit] Reference

Anyone doubting the influence of drought on tree growth can look at the recent data coming from Europe on continental-scale reductions in leaf area and rates of photosynthesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bristlecones, Foxtails and Temperature « Climate Audit] Reference

This number comes from a 1972 study by Richard Lewontin of 17 blood types, comparing variation between continental-scale races and between national-scale racial groups e.g., Swedes vs.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT: "A Family Tree in Every Gene"] Reference

In general, Europeans appear to be the most homogenized of all the continental-scale racial groups, so I suspect that customers are typically going to be underwhelmed by the findings: E.g.    From Wordnik.com.  [AncestrybyDNA] Reference

As I discussed recently in VDARE.com, there's nothing ultra-special about "continental-scale racial groups," such as Caucasians than makes them the only size of racial group worth discussing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-06-12] Reference

“The hydrostatic mesoscale model presented by Anthes and Warner 1978 has been employed to investigate meteorological phenomena on a wide range of scales ranging from continental-scale cyclone development to local valley flows.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Exponential Growth in Physical Systems « Climate Audit] Reference

The combined effect of grid-box sampling errors will be small for any continental-scale or hemispheric-scale average though the lack of global coverage introduces an additional source of sampling error, this is discussed in section 6.1.    From Wordnik.com.  [HadCru Temperature « Climate Audit] Reference

In general, Europeans appear to be the most homogenized of all the continental-scale racial groups, so I suspect that customers are typically going to be underwhelmed by the findings: E.g., "You're 50% NOR, 35% MED, 10% MIDEAS, and 5% SA.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-01-16] Reference

Should the current positive AMO (warm North Atlantic) conditions persist into the upcoming decade, we suggest two possible drought scenarios that resemble the continental-scale patterns of the 1930s (positive PDO) and 1950s (negative PDO) drought.    From Wordnik.com.  [YTD Hurricane Activity « Climate Audit] Reference

"We're seeing continental-scale evidence of warming," Veblen said.    From Wordnik.com.  [IPS Inter Press Service] Reference

Tennessee, so this is quickly becoming a continental-scale problem.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

It illustrates how continental-scale land/sea/air phenomena come together to make large late winter storms.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

It illustrates how continental-scale land/sea/air phenomena come together to make large early springtime storms.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Experts have found a '' black mat '' of soot a few centimetres thick thought to be left by continental-scale wildfires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest news, breaking news, current news, UK news, world news, celebrity news, politics news] Reference

The Met Office says that it does not expect "any substantial changes in the resulting global and continental-scale multidecadal trends".    From Wordnik.com.  [Top stories from Times Online] Reference

'The period, known to geologists as the Eocene-Oligocene transition, culminated in the rapid development of a continental-scale ice sheet on Antarctica, which has been there ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [India eNews] Reference

Their results provide no evidence for continental-scale fires, but support the fact that the increase in large-scale wildfires in all regions of the world during the past decade is related to an increase in global warming.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

The initial phase in Spring 2007 will establish a continental-scale network focused on phenological observations of a few regionally appropriate native plant species and nationally-cultivated indicator plants (e.g., lilacs).    From Wordnik.com.  [Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group News] Reference

"This is further evidence that we're really seeing continental-scale effects of the warming, which should make us rethink many of our resource management policies," said study co-author Dr. Thomas Veblen of the University of Colorado.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories - Google News] Reference

Each has its benefits: the satellite provides regular, continental-scale coverage of Greenland and hard-to-reach regions like Antarctica, while the aircraft can make more detailed surveys of areas where scientists expect to see rapid change.    From Wordnik.com.  [RxPG News : Latest Medical, Healthcare and Research News] Reference

In 2001 and 2002, the Census of Marine Life funded a small pilot project, originally named the Pacific Ocean Salmon Tracking Project, to demonstrate the feasibility of a permanent, continental-scale telemetry system on the west coast of North America.    From Wordnik.com.  [Earth News, Earth Science, Energy Technology, Environment News] Reference

The authors present "a first analysis of a new data set of daily discharge records from 138 small to medium-sized unregulated rivers in northern Eurasia," focusing on providing "a first continental-scale assessment of low-flow trends since the 1930s.".    From Wordnik.com.  [New Content on CO2 Science] Reference

They explain that this unreliability means that an electrical generation system with greatly increased use of wind turbines would still require backup generation even if continental-scale power lines enabled electrical transmission from windy to non-windy areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

We're getting ourselves into an area-I consider myself an expert in the global ecological system-where we're not only talking about ecosystem collapse of a community or maybe a region, but we're talking about continental-scale and global-scale ecological collapse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mongabay.com News] Reference

"These findings, together with related work on continental-scale river runoff, zonal mean rainfall, and surface specific humidity, suggest that there is an emerging anthropogenic signal in both the moisture content of earth's atmosphere and in the cycling of moisture between atmosphere, land, and ocean," they conclude.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prison Planet.com] Reference

A comet impact initiated continental-scale wildfires at 12.9 ka; the data do not support this idea, nor are continent-wide fires indicated at any time during deglaciation.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

The Germans and Austro-Hungarian understood that Russia’s control of Ukraine made them a continental-scale power like the United States, China, or India, if any or all of these three became and stayed united and independent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Strategic Significance] Reference

"The period, known to geologists as the Eocene - Oligocene transition, culminated in the rapid development of a continental-scale ice sheet on Antarctica, which has been there ever since.    From Wordnik.com.  [R&D Mag - News] Reference