Sentence examples for latitude rather than from inspiring English sources

Within this giant continent, what is now North America was much closer to the Equator; specifically, the American Southwest was in the tropics, between 5 and 15 degrees north latitude, rather than in its present position of 30 to 40 degrees north.

Whatever the number of loci we considered, the increase of the correlation coefficient was larger when including latitude rather than longitude in the regression model.

Results were similar for a parallel analysis using the actual latitude rather than a categorical measure (data not shown).

Additional analysis of job strain suggested that its impact on claim filing mainly represented the control component (decision latitude) rather than the demand component.

For birds, we only included species that have breeding ranges exclusively above or below |40°| latitude, rather than using an area-weighted centroid.

Spencer notes that Io's biggest eruptions--including this event--have struck at the moon's high latitudes, rather than near its equator.

For this reason, it has often been deemed preferable to use only scalar data at high latitudes rather than use vector components that are more sensitive to high latitude current systems.

Based on our compilation of the available evidence, shark species richness was shown to peak at mid-latitudes, rather than at the tropics.

ND3 genetic distance was also associated with latitude, which is likely to be due to the variation in temperature at different latitudes rather than a spatial effect, as there was no indication of isolation by distance in this gene.

Previous studies investigating migratory patterns of peregrine falcons in North America using banding records or satellite telemetry have also documented peregrines passing through Padre Island that originate or finalize their migration in northern high latitude areas rather than further south in southern Canada and continental U.S. ([11], [32], [33]; see also Fig. 2 in [31]).

The new measurements also show that when the fast wind leaves the sun it blows from a wide range of latitudes, rather than just near the poles.