This is the case for the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitudes, including the United States.
For example, many applications are now annotating their data with geographic information: latitudes and longitudes, addresses.
NPR's Julie McCarthy discovered that Brazil is churning out award-winning wine at unlikely latitudes.
The glow is usually best seen from northern latitudes like Norway, Alaska, Iceland and northern Scotland.
In the temperate regions it doesn't produce results, and in the high latitudes it's really counterproductive.
Solar eruptions trigger aurorae on Earth, filling the night sky at high latitudes with dancing lights.
The researchers tell Nature that this dynamic thinning, as they call it, now covers all latitudes in Greenland.
The models suggested that precipitation would increase in the northern and middle latitudes, and crop yields would grow.
Mid-continent warming will be greater than over the oceans, and there will be greater warming at higher latitudes.
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For rice, warming brought a clear benefit for crops at higher latitudes and some losses in warmer places.
That's very exciting because these occur at latitudes that humans - or robotic explorers - could get at.
In the case of the current mid-latitude chill, it is the high latitudes that are seeing the warming.
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Harper sold 1.2 million copies of "Pirate Latitudes, " a 17th-century pirate novel that Mr. Crichton had finished before he died.
The space agency said observers at latitudes north of 51 degrees south should be able to see the meteor shower.
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Best viewing will be in the northern hemisphere, but the shower can be seen at latitudes north of 51 degrees south.
An economy until recently dependent on peasant farming in harsh latitudes has shaped a stoic national character and an appetite for self-improvement.
The "long arm of the MJO" even extends into the middle latitudes.
The best time of year to see them is during winter, when darkness in the upper latitudes stretches up to 24 hours.
The aurora, commonly known as the northern and southern lights, is a ghostly light show seen most often at high latitudes on Earth.
Attempts have been made to correlate other disease states with the relative deficiency in vitamin D that is still common in high latitudes.
This study suggests that the impact of natural fires at high latitudes must be taken into account in determining the causes of pollution.
Furthermore, the pattern of warming globally doesn't resemble the pattern of urbanisation, with the greatest warming seen in the Arctic and northern high latitudes.
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And there's been an increase in rainfall at higher latitudes as a consequence because the atmosphere can hold more water if it's a little bit warmer.
They prospered for another 3, 000 years, until a shift in the monsoon belt to lower latitudes steered potential rains away from the continent, causing catastrophic droughts.
Many coral reefs are found within the region of increasing temperatures, and most of the reefs within these latitudes have experienced bleaching over the past 10 years.
They make aurorae visible at far lower latitudes than usual.
As noted in the Third Assessment Report, changes up to 1C may be beneficial for a few regions and sectors, such as agriculture in the mid to high latitudes.
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The main source of vitamin D is sunshine and women living in northern latitudes such as Scotland often do not get enough to ensure healthy growth of the foetus.
The discovery that the inner Sun spins at different rates at different latitudes is consistent with earlier studies showing that the surface of the Sun also rotates at different speeds.
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