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Reservoir masses here represents carbon stocks, measured in Pg C. Carbon exchange fluxes, measured in Pg C yr −1, occur between the atmosphere and its two major sinks, the land and the ocean. The black numbers and arrows indicate the reservoir mass and exchange fluxes estimated for the year 1750, just before the Industrial Revolution. The red ...
At the 60th parallel, the air rises to the tropopause (about 8 km at this latitude) and moves poleward. As it does so, the upper-level air mass deviates toward the east. When the air reaches the polar areas, it has cooled by radiation to space and is considerably denser than the underlying air. It descends, creating a cold, dry high-pressure area.
Continental and superior air masses are dry, while maritime and monsoon air masses are moist. Weather fronts separate air masses with different density (temperature or moisture) characteristics. Once an air mass moves away from its source region, underlying vegetation and water bodies can quickly modify its character. Classification schemes ...
The sizes of bobcats' home ranges vary significantly from 0.596–326 km 2 (0.23–126 sq mi). [38] One study in Kansas found resident males to have ranges of roughly 21 km 2 (8 sq mi), and females less than half that area. Transient bobcats were found to have home ranges of 57 km 2 (22 sq mi) and less
Bobcats: No. Bobcats are a native species with a legal hunting season in Florida that runs from Dec. 1 through March 31. Bobcats may be taken by rifle, shotgun, pistol, muzzleloader, air gun ...
A marine layer is an air mass that develops over the surface of a large body of water, such as an ocean or large lake, in the presence of a temperature inversion. The inversion itself is usually initiated by the cooling effect caused when cold water on the surface of the ocean interacts with a comparatively warm air mass. [1]
“How in the world did that bobcat let him get that close?”
Bobcats are likely the biggest predator that Tuscarawas County will ever get, he said. Wolves and mountain lions, which roamed the area in the early 1800s, won't be returning.