Freshwater biomes typically develop around small ponds, creeks, rivers, lakes, marshes and wetlands. Marine biomes often mistakenly get included in the freshwater biome, but they don't belong in them because they contain salty sea water. Like in the Florida Everglades, many freshwater biomes meet...
Though some use the terms interchangeably, there are many differences between “climate” and “weather.” Climate refers to the average pattern of weather in a specific place over several years, while weather encompasses the natural events happening in the atmosphere each day, including temperature ...
at which the sun hits the Earth, different areas of Earth are affected differently by the sun's rays. Areas near the equator receive more direct sunlight, so temperatures are higher, while higher latitudes have the same amount of sun spread over a larger...
Large-scale distributed watershed models are data-intensive, and preparing them consumes most of the research resources. We prepared high-resolution global databases of soil, landuse, actual evapotranspiration (AET), and historical and future weather databases that could serve as standard inputs in So...
biome. Most temperate forests are located in the Northern Hemisphere, but some temperate forests exist in New Zealand, southern Australia, South Africa, and southern Chile and Argentina. Rainforest can be found along some coastal areas in the temperate zone, such the Pacific coast in North ...