topography
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El Niño events can accelerate this process, while local factors such as cloud cover, snowfall and mountain topography influence its pace.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
Geologists have determined the sounds are from shifting tectonic plates, creating underground rumblings that are amplified by the topography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
The OS first started mapping Britain 230 years ago and has since documented the changes in the country's topography.
From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026
To get a sense of the topography, walk 10 minutes from the center of town up to the Citadelle, a fortress where peacocks roam and you’ll have panoramic views over the Gulf of St. Tropez.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
But no, it would just sink to the bottom and I’d know how far, but not the depth, not the topography.
From "Paradise on Fire" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
It takes a thoroughly empirical approach to California’s four seasons and their manifestation across its myriad topographies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2024
University of Washington scientists who combined sea-level projections with topographies along Washington’s coast found some parts of Seattle and other areas will be permanently underwater if worst-case projections are realized.
From National Geographic ● Feb. 9, 2024
But the impacts of climate change are uneven, Beissinger said, and the Pacific Northwest’s varying topographies and climates make it challenging to predict exactly how birds will adjust, Beissinger said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 28, 2021
With the probing, restless spirit of the flâneuse, Sycamore traces topographies of hurt and want during long walks on Seattle streets mapped with the same precision shown to Boston in her third novel, “Sketchtasy.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2020
A third advantage of the Fertile Crescent’s Mediterranean zone is that it provides a wide range of altitudes and topographies within a short distance.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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