temperate belt

[′tem·prət ‚belt]

(climatology)

A belt around the earth within which the annual mean temperature is less than 20°C (68°F) and the mean temperature of the warmest month is higher than 10°C (50°F).

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White ovals, which often develop in the South Temperate Belt, can really "pop" in the eyepiece.

Jupiter, By Jove! The solar system's greatest gas giant puts in a bold appearance this month

As the apparition started in 2012 June, Jupiter was in the throes of an unprecedented double upheaval across the northern hemisphere, with revivals of the North Temperate Belt (confirming our prediction of a 5-year periodicity) and the North Equatorial Belt (the first for nearly a century).

Jupiter section

This is similar to the length of time for the disappearance of Jupiter's North Temperate Belt in 2002-2003 (8) and Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt in late 2009 and early 2010 (2).

Jupiter's changing North Equatorial Belt

I suggest that Morris is correct in putting forward the importance of the temperate belt in human history.

Overdetermined

For example, in Russia which mostly spans the temperate belt, just 7% of land is used for arable crops, and 5% for grazing.

Food versus fuel--the debate heats up: liquid biofuel has recently been a heavily debated topic in the press. Both rising food prices and food shortages in developing countries are being blamed on an increasing demand for food crops used in biofuel production. PWE reports

Thus, in "I borgarfrumskogi I" (In a City Jungle I): "Electricity's prayer edges heavenward / Follows the rosario of the elevator // The girl with a temperate belt / The man with an evergreen belt / Torn from their roots / On their way up the skyscraper// The oxygen thins / Roots struck from the flat roof / Into the firmament." In a more carnal mode, the five-year-old poet lies on his back on the kitchen floor looking at the ankles of four women (and presumably up their skirts) as they step over him, seeing "A ladder to heaven / All the way from the ankle." So I guess heaven is where you find it.

Ljodlinuspil

In Table 3, NP[R.sub.s] = south edge of the north polar cap; NT[B.sub.c] = center of the north temperature belt, NE[B.sub.n] and NE[B.sub.s] are the north and south edges of the north equatorial belt respectively; ST[B.sub.c] = center of the south temperate belt and [X.sub.c] = center of belt which is either the equatorial band or a portion of the north equatorial belt which split.

Saturn in late 1993

But since then, three have shown increasing activity, including major new cycles of disturbance in the North Temperate Belt (NTB) and North Equatorial Belt (NEB).

Jupiter--from earth to Juno: Amateur astronomers are benefitting from--and adding to--Juno's observations

As an example, the northern edge of the South South Temperate belt is called the SSTBn.

Saturn in 2002-03

The north temperate belt was relatively distinct in 1989; this feature also contained some faint irregularities.

Observations of Saturn in the Spring and Summer of 1989

South Polar Region (SPR) South Temperate Belt (STB) South Tropical Zone (STrZ) South Equatorial Belt (SEB) Equatorial Zone (EZ) North Equatorial Belt (NEB) North Tropical Zone (NTrZ) North Temperate Belt (NTB) North Polar Region (NPR)

Jupiter enters the evening sky

The most prominent feature on the planet was a dark belt complex stretching from the approximate latitudes of 15[degrees]N to 45[degrees]N, encompassing the latitudes of the North Equatorial Belt (NEB) and North Temperate Belt (NTB), as shown in Figure 2.