Encyclopedia entry: latitude

Article: FEATURE/On Earth Day, Latitude to Conduct Business ...
Business Wire;  April 18, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... driving and flying on Earth Day Responding to those choking facts, Latitude Communications Inc ... in-person. After Earth Day, Latitude, which provides discounted ... in conjunction with Earth Day, Latitude will also announce a ...

Article: The Equator Equation; Changes in Attitude, No Changes in ...
The Washington Post;  October 23, 1988 ;     700+ words ... ... with blue tiles and carried an inscription fashioned from pieces of magnesium: EAST + LINE OF THE EQUATOR + MACAPA + BRAZIL + LATITUDE 00'00'00 + WEST. Around the wall was the Garden of the Equator, featuring aloe plants sprouting from the center of automobile ...

Article: EARTH PALEOENVIRONMENTS: RECORDS PRESERVED IN MID- AND ...
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society;  January 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...EARTH PALEOENVIRONMENTS: RECORDS PRESERVED IN MID- AND LOW-LATITUDE GLACIERS L DeWayne Cecil ... from glaciers in mid- and low latitudes, where the glaciers tend to ... for climate analysis of low-latitude glacier ice cores is significant ...

Article: Joint force logistics: understanding location basics: in the ...
Army Logistician;  March 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... these concepts. Latitude. The Earth has a circumference ... poles. Since the Earth is nearly round ... reference points. Latitudes are horizontal lines ... designated as 0 degrees latitude. In the WGS, minutes ... in the circular Earth. There are 60 minutes ...

Article: Northern high latitude terrestrial climate during the ...
M2 Presswire;  June 15, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Centre: Northern high latitude terrestrial climate ... critical period in Earth's history(C ... in northern high latitudes at the Eocene-Oligocene ... profound shift in the Earth's climate from ... School of Ocean and Earth Science based at ... first northern high latitude terrestrial ...

Dictionary definition: latitude
A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units;      700+ words ... ... the value of the common latitude as well as their distinct ... two points of different latitude but identical longitude depends only on their latitudes. Because Earth is not a true sphere, the angle of latitude differs as to whether ...

Article: High clouds may soon light U.S. sunsets. (prediction that ...
Science News;  June 18, 1994 ;     662 words ... ... residents of the far northern latitudes have witnessed a strange ... gases accumulating in Earth's atmosphere, according ... to form in the coldest latitudes. Greenhouse gases will ... mesosphere, even as they warm Earth's surface. The temperature ...