continentality

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continentality

[‚känt·ən·en′tal·əd·ē]

(climatology)

The degree to which a point on the earth's surface is in all respects subject to the influence of a land mass.

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Gradients of continentality and moisture in South Patagonian ombrotrophic peatland vegetation.

Nomenclatural revision and syntaxonomical proposal for wetland peat vegetation in the Valdivian-Magellanian region/Revision nomenclatural y propuesta sintaxonomica de la vegetacion de humedales turbosos de la region Valdiviano-Magallanica

In addition, Conrad's and Rasins' continentality indices were analysed.

Analysis of some limiting ecological factors on the example of the distribution of the genus Tilia L. cultivated in Latvia

When the above mentioned elements are met, another variable could intervene to guide the evolution of fuel load, the continentality.

Spatial distribution of forest fires analysis based on human activities and ecological and biophysical factors-forest of Maamora-Morocco

Column heading abbreviations: MAT, Mean Annual Temperature; MAP, Mean Annual Precipitation; GDD, Growing Degree Days; GSL, Growing Season Length; XMT, 30-year extreme minimum winter temperature (event year in parenthesis); CNT, Continentality (mean annual temperature range).

Geology and Wine 11. Terroir of the Western Snake River Plain, Idaho, USA

In the Sahara, temperatures vary greatly with latitude, altitude, and the degree of continentality.

The hot tropical deserts and subdeserts

Continentality indices: methodological revision and proposition.

Influences of large-scale climatic variability on episodic tree mortality in Northern Patagonia

In addition, the two dominant species gradients at the state scale were associated with continentality and growing season moisture stress, climatic gradients that integrate elements of both temperature and moisture.

Regional gradient analysis and spatial pattern of woody plant communities of Oregon forests

The great extent of this territory, with N, S, and E exposures, causes appreciable changes in thermotypes, ombrotypes, and continentality.

Bioindicators and bioclimatic data as essential tools towards a consistent biogeographic district typology of Sierra Nevada National Park (Spain)/Bioindicadores y datos bioclimaticos como herramientas esenciales para una tipologia biogeografica distrital consistente en el Parque Nacional de Sierra Nevada (Espana)

At the same time the domination of fractions of the evrivalent fractions of plants is noted--on the scales of continentality of climate, cryoclimatic, richness of soil's nitrogen, and illumination-shading.

Methods of analysis of environmental diversity of plants

This is due to the decrease of the influence of marine, generally colder waters, and the effect of continentality.

Study of physico-chemical parameters of water quality in the Kannar river (Stehate-Chefchaouen, morocco)

As the explanatory variables the mean Ellenberg values (light, temperature, continentality, moisture, reaction, nitrogen) (Ellenberg et al.

Phytosociology and dynamics of calcareous grasslands in Kemeri National Park, Latvia/Lubjarikaste rohumaade futosotsioloogia ja dunaamika Kemeri rahvuspargis (Lati)

According to Vianello and Alves (2006), the phenomena related to atmospheric dynamics and geographical factors, such as topography, continentality and maritime, are the main determinants of the climatic characteristics of southern Brazil.

Mathematical modeling and simulation of hourly precipitation through rectangular pulses/Modelagem matematica e simulacao da precipitacao horaria por meio de pulsos retangulares