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  • noun Any latitude roughly half way between the equator and a pole

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  • The past few years of carbon monitoring at the Harvard Forest have shown that the so-called midlatitude forests of the United States (the forests stretching up from the Carolinas into New England and Canada and the Midwest) are reducing the global increase in carbon by more than 10 percent.

    Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming RSS Newsfeed 2009

  • CO2 exchange between air and water in an Arctic Alaskan and midlatitude Swiss lake: Importance of convective mixing.

    Effects of climate change on landscape and regional processes and feedbacks to the climate system in the Arctic 2009

  • Rethinking reactive halogen budgets in the midlatitude lower stratosphere.

    Future changes in ozone in the Arctic 2009

  • Uzbekistanmostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east

    Climate 2008

  • Climate: mostly midlatitude desert, long, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid grassland in east

    Uzbekistan 2008

  • The presence of carbonates indicates that Mars had neutral to alkaline waters when the minerals formed in the midlatitude region more than 3.6 billion years ago.

    Martian Carbonates Suggest Past Life on Mars Staq Mavlen 2008

  • Climate: midlatitude continental, hot summers, mild winters; semiarid to polar in Pamir Mountains

    Tajikistan 2008

  • The presence of carbonates indicates that Mars had neutral to alkaline waters when the minerals formed in the midlatitude region more than 3.6 billion years ago.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Staq Mavlen 2008

  • However you feel about polar bears not having floating platforms from which to hunt seals, the vanishing ice will shift wind patterns in a way that intensifies midlatitude storms, increasing wintertime precipitation over Western and Southern Europe, but reduces rainfall in the American West.

    Curbing Emissions Won't Be Enough 2007

  • The difference between precipitation of evapotranspiration has a clear equatorial peak that is associated with convective cloud systems, whereas the secondary maxima (near 50°N and °S) are the result of extratropical cyclones and midlatitude convection.

    Global material cycles 2007

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