Sentence examples for drier region from inspiring English sources

The Columbia acts as a conduit for moisture-laden coastal air to replace the warmer air rising in the drier region east of the Cascades, creating steady winds that first attracted windsurfers to Hood River in the early 1980s, followed in recent years by kiteboarders.

If we compare an atmospheric column over a moist humid region with one over a drier region we will find that the relationship of air pressure (and temperature) with altitude differ.

This difference in pressure with altitude generates circulation such that the moist column (where most condensation is occurring) will draw in low-level air from the drier region, and return air to it at a higher-level.

In the drier regions low shrubs and scrub predominate, but grasslands and dense rainforests occur where there is heavier precipitation.

Much of the group is covered by dense rain forest, but drier regions have patches of savanna grassland.

Well-watered regions (temperate and humid tropical areas) are characterized by permanent streams and large, permanent rivers; drier regions are characterized by temporary streams.

Such turtles, including box turtles, wood turtles, spotted turtles and tortoises, plod between wetlands and drier regions during the year.

The breeding season lasts from July to December, more often occurring after rain in drier regions.

Found in drier regions across much of the continent, it inhabits scrub and open woodland.

Triaenops menamena is a bat in the genus Triaenops found on Madagascar, mainly in the drier regions.

The white-eared titi is found in tropical humid forests, preferring drier regions to more humid ones.