How To Use High-altitude In A Sentence
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High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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In the Serra da Bocaina, plants grow along the edges of montane forests, as well as in well drained high-altitude grasslands and temporary swamps that arc flooded in the summer months.
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For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the great belt of dry, high-altitude polar winds - the so-called circumpolar vortex-that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.
SOLO - Sense of Life Objectivists
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First, to help their guests through the shock of all that unaccustomed high-altitude exercise.
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Objective To observe the clinical effectiveness of Oculotect gel in the treatment of actinic cheilitis at high-altitude area.
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The two were reportedly practicing high-altitude autorotations at 6,000 ft near the northern Italian air force base at Rimini.
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Reportedly, at present, many manufacturers of hydraulic lifting platform car high-altitude performance through the test, which is attached to the lifting device not type test.
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High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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First, to help their guests through the shock of all that unaccustomed high-altitude exercise.
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Heinlein did not serve actively in the military in WWII, as he was medically discharged in 1934 with tuberculosis, but he did serve in the fashion he was allowed, working on high-altitude pressure suit research and other avionic work.
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An analysis showed what doctors had long suspected -- that high-altitude climbers have incredibly low levels of oxygen in their blood, normally seen only in patients close to death.
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Geoff was once asked at a slide show what qualities were essential to becoming a high-altitude mountaineer.
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This site can only be compared with one other known high-altitude geothermally-influenced ice-free area near the summit of Mount Erebus.
Maudlandia Antarctic desert
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The pilots are trained in conditions simulating high-altitude flights
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Each of his 300 ewes will need a health "passport" to go on her high-altitude summer break and their shepherd, Mr. Sarres, will have his personal belongings winched down to a mountain hut by helicopter.
I Think, Therefore I Am Happy
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The Fire Rainbow happens when you have high-altitude sunlight (58 degrees or higher) hitting special types of ice crystals known as hexagonal plate crystals, found naturally in very-high altitude cirrus clouds.
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It's principally a high-altitude tourist resort and the prices can be as high as the mountains.
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It's this type of use, or misuse, of water for high-altitude crops, and ones with only an indirect return, getting processed through a cow (or worse, fed to somebody's pet horse), rather than direct human benefit crops such as dryland or semi-dry spring wheat or pinto beans, that Marc Reisner decried in "Cadillac Desert.
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Today, they contend, those qualities have been eclipsed “by the hypertrophied commercial individualism of the age of extremes” — as high-altitude adventure has become high-tech, it has become compromised, disputatious, even nihilistic.
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To sustain this kind of stamina, they are exquisitely adapted to the rarefied mountain air of their high-altitude stomping grounds.
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As the trek ascends and descends on a switchback ascent, an ever-present extra hazard is high-altitude sickness brought about by the ‘thinning’ air
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The cooler-than-normal water temperature is thought to trigger dry weather in the southern United States by reducing the amount of moisture that is picked up by the sub-tropical jet stream, a high-altitude air flow that serves as a highway for storms.
Midwest Storms Delay Crucial Planting Season
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Airlines outside the U.S. have run fuel surcharges up to high-altitude levels and charge them, plus taxes and government fees, even when you redeem miles for frequent-flier awards.
Why 'Free' Tickets Cost So Much
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It's an exhilarating experience: crisp, high-altitude air, fresh powder, the search for grip as the snow makes a skyward plume in your wake.
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High-altitude clouds—cirrus, cirrocumulus, and cirrostratus—reside between three and seven miles above sea level.
MY EMPIRE OF DIRT
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Inspired, Kumar flung himself into high-altitude mountaineering and began racking up notable achievements.
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Available horsepower at sea-level and high-altitude fields are nearly equal.
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The water is trickling down and filling up huge, high-altitude lakes, which are now threatening to burst their banks and flood the populated valleys below.
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Mountain enthusiasts can choose to feel the chill of high-altitude lakes or brave the rapids of the unspoilt river.
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In two high-altitude rocket flights of thin-walled Geiger tubes at geomagnetic latitudes 64° and 74°N, a considerable intensity of soft radiation has been encountered above 50 kilometers altitude.
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Was this the fabled yeti, terrorizing another doomed high-altitude expedition?
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You might call it tilting at windmills, but don’t say that to Neal Saiki, who holds a masters degree in aeronautical engineering and worked as a project manager at NASA developing high-altitude research vehicles, before founding Zero Motorcycles.
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This would let the jet stream high-altitude winds run through Europe and help to steer the storms away from our shores.
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When he sent weather balloons high into the atmosphere he was surprised to find them blown away by powerful high-altitude winds sweeping eastwards.
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Auguste Piccard conceived the bathyscaphe in the 1930s but became distracted by the allure of high-altitude ballooning.
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They distributed 350 sheep to farmers living in high-altitude resettlements who lost their livestock during the conflict.
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High-altitude cirrus, cirrostratus and middle-altitude altostratus clouds are found well in advance of the front.
Air masses and frontal transitional zones
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The report of the review board concludes unequivocally that the accident was caused by a high-altitude aerial explosion of an asteroidal body.
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Dominating U.S. military UAV procurement in 2009 will be the Global Hawk high-altitude, high-endurance UAV, and the Predator reconnaissance and attack UAV.
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As part of the unique package, he would receive training in freefall parachuting, high-altitude decompression, basic radio procedures and reusable launch vehicle systems operation.
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The group was on a high-altitude tour combining skiing and hiking, close to the Great St Bernard Pass, when it was swept away by a snow slide.
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During the conflict, frostbite, sun-burn, and other high-altitude sicknesses caused large numbers of casualties.
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This would let the jet stream high-altitude winds run through Europe and help to steer the storms away from our shores.
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For instance, a trough can dip down into the tropics to bring high-altitude winds blowing from the West.
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During that time away, he decided to quit his photography job and pursue a Ph.D.—a decision his wife attributed to high-altitude oxygen deprivation.
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Another scientist reported grizzlies flipping over rocks to lick up army cutworm moths, a fat-bodied insect that hides by day in the high-altitude talus slopes in the Rockies.
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Fourth, within ITRDB, the growth increase in high-altitude sites collected by Graybill is MUCH higher than a very slight growth increase in high-altitude sies collected by all other researchers.
Bunn et al. [2005] – 20th century tree growth in the Sierra Nevadas « Climate Audit
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We investigated the importance of snowmelt as an organizing factor for epilithic microalgae in a high-altitude montane stream during 3 yr of differing melt characteristics.
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The sacred lake didn't look any different from a thousand other inhospitable high-altitude tarns found everywhere in Tibet.
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For one thing there has been a noticeable expansion of the green belt of dry high-altitude polar winds - the so-called circumpolar vortex - that sweep from west to east around the top and bottom of the world.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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A failed high-altitude nuclear launch left a legacy of low-level plutonium contamination, and an old Agent Orange storage site caused some residual contamination as well.
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Today, the USP could be as unusual as ‘high-altitude unblended coffee, cultivated over 3,500 ft above the mean sea level’.
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Not content with this bit of high-altitude aptitude, the equilibrist re-crosses the falls, first blindfolded, then on a bicycle, then on stilts, then pushing a wheelbarrow while carrying a man on his back.
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Other birds that are typical of these high-altitude ecosystems and can be used as focal species for conservation management planning include the blood pheasant (Ithaginis cruentus), western tragopan (Tragopan melanoephalus), Satyr tragopan (Tragopan satyra), and Himalayan monal (Lophophorus impejanus), which inhabit the shrubby ground cover, and the large avian predators, lammergeier (Gypaetus barbatus), golden eagle (Aquila chrysaetos), and Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis).
Western Himalayan alpine shrub and meadows
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They were here to defend the heavens against high-altitude spy planes.
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But temperatures have risen again as the persistent high-pressure system that brought the freeze was shunted away by a high-altitude jet stream.
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Commission ornithologist Karen Rowe said the birds showed physical trauma, and she speculated that "the flock could have been hit by lightning or high-altitude hail.
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ED VIESTURS From a boy who grew up on the flatlands of Illinois, Ed has established himself as the premier high-altitude mountaineer in America.
Undefined
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The arc isn't a rainbow in the traditional sense - it is caused by light passing through wispy, high-altitude cirrus clouds.
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In 1958, he got schooled by the locals on epic high-altitude climbs.