Regional-scale estimates of snow water equivalent (SWE) are challenging in alpine regions, particularly in areas of high accumulation and dense forest cover, suggesting efforts to improve these estimates may benefit from an evaluation of existing gridded products.
The concrete bears hardly challenge Sky's alpine skills and she may be too old for the swings, but she obliges me by going off to them anyway.
The detection of clinically ill animals in rigorously vaccinated herds and the health monitoring of livestock kept on alpine pastures are challenging.
The second reason for the strong simplification is the non- uniform distribution of geological information in the Alps, especially for deeper parts, which renders a three-dimensional representation of the Alpine area with high resolution mostly challenging.
Workman was challenging a masculine realm; her obituary in The Alpine Journal alluded to the challenges she faced, saying that she "felt that she suffered from 'sex antagonism'".
For Alpine towns like Grindelwald, the changes are challenging.
Large rock avalanches constitute a critical process modulating the evolution of alpine landscapes; however, the relatively infrequent occurrence of these high-magnitude events makes identifying underlying process controls challenging.
It is also clear the Americans are not yet ready to challenge the world skiing powers in Alpine events.
Freeze-thaw cycles in early spring may challenge the soil invertebrate fauna, especially in alpine or sub-arctic regions [ 38].
Should their country reach the final, to be held on July 13th, they will have a busy day in front of the TV: the Sunday falls on the second weekend of the Tour de France, when riders, Mr Quintana probably among them, typically face their first big alpine challenge.
