Acetominephen nelvn abnenoncvne pluvial nerfherder jumanji. From Wordnik.com. [In Your Own Words] Reference
French: riz pluvial africain, vieux riz, riz africain, riz flottant. From Wordnik.com. [1. African Rice] Reference
It is also one of the few places in the Neotropics with pluvial rainforest. From Wordnik.com. [Chocó-Darién moist forests] Reference
And this tete-a-tete decorated with flowers; and this pluvial cope in this case. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But he could not even visualize this country as it must have been in pluvial times. From Wordnik.com. [Galactic Derelict]
Woodhouse has written about the “20th century pluvial” in the American Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [Millar et al: The Sierra Nevada MWP « Climate Audit] Reference
That makes the differences on pluvial precipitation patterns, humidity, prevalent temperatures, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Unthreaded #12 « Climate Audit] Reference
The plumbing and pluvial dynamics of the Amazon, the largest freshwater system on Earth, are still far from understood. From Wordnik.com. [The Gasping Forest] Reference
Two principal life zones on the island are defined by Holdridge: very humid tropical forest and the same with a transition to pluvial forest. From Wordnik.com. [Coiba National Park and its Special Zone of Marine Protection, Panama] Reference
The Quaternary period – which covers most of the recent period of vacillation between ice ages and pluvial ages – is the exception rather than the rule. From Wordnik.com. [Wonk Room » Stumped By Science: Michele Bachmann Calls CO2 ‘Harmless,’ ‘Negligible,’ ‘Necessary,’ ‘Natural’] Reference
That old lady who asserted that "it never rains but it pours," would have been furnished with corroborative proofs had she witnessed some of the pluvial exhibitions at Hong-Kong. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
The series of eight caves are wave-cut shelters on the highest shoreline of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, which rose and fell in periods of greater precipitation during the Pleistocene. From Wordnik.com. [Oldest Human Coprolite Found] Reference
One could plausibly interpret the above record as showing increased 20th century precipitation in arid sites Woodhouse discusses a "20th century pluvial" in the American Southwest. From Wordnik.com. [Cook et al[2004]: More Cargo Cult? « Climate Audit] Reference
There are also recent deposits from huge lakes, which were present during the pluvial periods of a few thousand years ago, centered on present day Lake Chad and the Inner Niger Delta. From Wordnik.com. [Sahelian Acacia savanna] Reference
It is thought that these enclaves are relicts of vegetation that spread southward during cool pluvial periods of the Pleistocene and survived there because of the microclimate with high rainfall. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests] Reference
They demonstrated that most rivers are very sensitive to temperature rises on the order of 1 to 3 ºC, and that nival (snow-dominated) rivers become less stable while pluvial (rain-dominated) rivers become more stable. From Wordnik.com. [Terrestrial Water Balance in the Arctic] Reference
The lakes of this ecoregion are significantly smaller than they were during the pluvial period some 5000 to 6000 years ago, and unless the water supply exceeds evaporation they will continue to shrink until they become pans and eventually saline grasslands. From Wordnik.com. [East African halophytics] Reference
The following perennial tropical forest latifoliate elements were combined: low altitude pluvial, submontane pluvial, montane pluvial, typical cloud, low cloud over serpentine, low altitude evergreen mesophile, submontane evergreen mesophile, and coastal microphile. From Wordnik.com. [Cuban moist forests] Reference
It may be interesting that some of the most anomalous tree ring records are in mid-latitude arid environments bristlecones, foxtails, perhaps Mongolia and, aside from CO2 fertilization, might simply be responding to the 20th century “pluvial” in the western U.S. From Wordnik.com. [The Proxies of Osborn and Briffa [2006] « Climate Audit] Reference
A probable shift to a more pluvial system with smaller and less intense freshet and ice breakup is very likely to decrease the frequency and magnitude of natural disturbances, and reduce the ability of flow systems to replenish riparian ecosystems, particularly river deltas. From Wordnik.com. [Key findings, science gaps, and recommendations for freshwater ecosystems in the ACIA] Reference
This circuitous route necessarily occupied more time than what would have been required under more auspicious circumstances; and the still heavy nature of the ground, from its late pluvial visitation, rendered the journey extremely tedious; while it prevented them from reaching. From Wordnik.com. [Fern Vale (Volume 1) or the Queensland Squatter] Reference
Malone knew that these soils had developed on old lake bed sediments deposited during the last ice age, when Great Salt Lake, which now ended miles to the west, was a big mother pluvial lake that put this spot almost a thousand feet underwater, with beaches miles to the east, up in the ramparts of the Wasatch Range. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
Overall, a warmer climate is very likely to lead to a shift toward a more pluvial runoff regime as a greater proportion of the annual precipitation falls as rain rather than snow; the magnitude of the peak of spring snowmelt declines; thawing permafrost increases near-surface storage and reduces runoff peaks; and a more active groundwater system augments base flows. From Wordnik.com. [Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic] Reference
Rowe CM (2003) Long-lived pluvial episodes during deposition of the Navajo Sandstone. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
Formed in an era with a climate much different from ours, pluvial lakes covered wide swaths of the planet. From Wordnik.com. [About.com Geography] Reference
The frequency of caverns in which the pluvial waters accumulate, and where small rivers disappear, sometimes causes a sinking of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
The cayos are composed of rocks, and not of sands, and their smallness renders it extremely improbable that the pluvial waters should unite in a permanent lake. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3] Reference
Built on detailed and consistent nation-wide hazard maps, both applications focus on enabling the reliable assessment and analysis of flood risks associated with fluvial (river), pluvial (heavy rain), and coastal. From Wordnik.com. [Business Wire Travel News] Reference
The tunicle became the customary vestment of the subdeacons; the chasuble was the vestment exclusively worn at the celebration of the Mass, as the pluvial, the liturgical caps, took its place at the other functions. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
It may easily be conceived that the effect and the height of the increase differs according to the profile of the river, the nature of the banks more or less elevated, the number of rivers flowing in that collect the pluvial waters, and the length of ground passed over. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
They invariably occupy the highest ground their sites having, in all probability, once been firm ground and their basins excavated by the action of fire, successive growth of Aquatic and other plants, have by degrees still further elevated their margins and made them the receptacles of pluvial waters from the adjoining swamps in rainy seasons. From Wordnik.com. [The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II] Reference
The introduction of the pluvial, or cope, and the surplice arose from the desire to be more comfortable; but the development of the pontifical costume was based, as has been said, upon the important secular position which the bishops enjoyed from the Carlovingian era, which naturally brought about a corresponding enrichment of the pontifical dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Indus, as the moon, brings or announces the Somas, or the rain; the frog, croaking, announces or brings the rain; and at this point the frog, which we have seen identified at first with the cloud, is also identified with the pluvial moon. ". From Wordnik.com. [Moon Lore] Reference
But as I have now seen how matters are with the elements, and have had a good pluvial bath as well, I think I will go home and change my clothes. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Seaboard Parish Volume 3] Reference
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