California coastal area

Figure 3. Average hourly solar radiation on a horizontal surface August through December, Southern California coastal area...

In desert areas of southern California fruit are often injured but leaves are seldom injured by sulfur dust. In coastal areas fruit burn is less marked but leaf burn may be acute. Where the air-vapor density is high, leaf temperatures in the sun may sometimes become higher than fruit temperatures. The leaf, a better absorber of radiation and a better radiator than the fruit, has a higher surface-mass ratio and appears to be very sensitive to the heat trap effect of high vapor density its temperature changes with great rapidity, but fruit temperature may lag until the danger period is passed (18). 

Malo-Lacttc Starter Culture. This must be monitored with great care and precision. Most California wineries don t use Leuconostoc starter cultures for malo-lactic fermentations because the organisms are generally so unpredictable and difficult to control. Where used, in the cooler coastal areas, the results are worth the effort, but it must be stressed that this is not for amateurs. Precise control is absolutely essential. See Pilone and Kunkee (10), Tchelistcheff et al. (II), and earlier papers by Kunkee. 

In 1977, 2,341,000 tons were crushed in California in the following districts Interior Valley, 2,052,300 tons, and coastal areas (including southern Californa) 288,700 tons. 

The breakdown of varieties for the Interior Valley was as follows wine, 1,205,900 tons raisin, 569,800 tons table, 277,100 tons making a total of 2,052,300 tons. The breakdown of varieties for the Coastal areas (including southern California) was wine, 265,600 tons raisin, 21,200 tons table, 1900 tons making a total of 288,700 tons. 

The southern maidenhair fern tends to be found on shady, moist slopes with calcium-rich soil in the Southeastern and Gulf states and the Rockies as far north as Utah and west to California. Northern maidenhair fern occurs most abundantly in Virginia, though scattered collections are known from other coastal areas, as well as from woodlands within North and South Carolina and Georgia, and as far north as Ontario. Western maidenhair is also known as five finger maidenhair, due to the appearance of the leaves at the ends of the stalks, and it is native to western North America. Species of maidenhair ferns can also be found in Europe, around the Mediterranean and in Japan. 

On the eastern side of the subtropical anticyclones the inversion is strengthened by the southerly flow of cool, dry air (recall that in the Northern Hemisphere the rotation in an anticyclone is clockwise). Particularly in coastal areas the low-level air is cooled by contact with the cold ocean, an exchange that tends to strengthen the inversion. Since the air aloft, as well as the southbound low-level flow, is warming, there is little precipitation in these regions. Thus on the west coasts of continents it is common to find arid, desert-like conditions, such as the deserts of southern California, the Sahara in North Africa, the desert in western Australia, and the coastal plains of South America. 

About 140,000 short tons are produced annually in the United States, largely in the coastal area of California. 

Methyl parathion and methyl paraoxon concentrations were measured in the condensate from coastal fog in California. Levels ranged from 0.046 to 0.43 pg/L methyl parathion and from 0.039 to 0.49 pg/L methyl paraoxon. The authors noted that the transformation of the methyl parathion to the methyl paraoxon appeared to take place during atmospheric transport of methyl parathion away from the agricultural areas (Schomburg et al. 1991). 

The coastal race conforms to P. menziesii var. menziesii, whereas the inland races accord well with P. menziesii var. glauca (Beissn.) Franco, the form known from the Rocky Mountains. There is no established morphological equivalent to the Sierra Nevada race trees from that area are usually referred to var. menziesii. Zavarin and Snajberk (1975), however, sununarized differences between trees harvested in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and those harvested in northwestern California with regard to commercial applications, particularly in the manufacture of plywood or the production of composite materials (particle board). Differences in such factors... 

Red tides (and some with other colors as well) occur with some regularity in certain coastal waters of New England, Alaska, California, and several other areas. If it is the type of tide that can produce PSP or other toxins, public health officials typically quarantine affected areas to prevent harvesting of shellfish. In some areas of the Gulf of Alaska, large reservoirs of shellfish cannot be used as food because of a persistent PSP problem. 

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