It's humid.

Hot and humid weather makes us lazy.

It is less humid today than it was yesterday.

It is extremely hot and humid in Bali in December.

Many factories have inadequateventilation, greatly exacerbating the already hot and humid climate. Most

Sustainable Management of Soil Resources in the Humid Tropics, by Rattan Lal, UNU Press

So inside it's cool and humid, which means the plants need less water to grow.

The air surrounding Greenland and Antarctica has recently become warmer and more humid. Warm and humid air will increase melting of ice in low regions at the edges of the ice sheets while boosting snowfall over cold high regions in the interior.

It gets very humid here in the summer. In the winter, on the other hand, it gets very dry.

Background The Desertification Convention Desertification is the degradation of land in arid, semi arid, and dry sub humid areas.

Formally, the MA definition encompasses all lands where the climate is classified as dry sub humid, semi arid, arid or hyper arid.

Attention should be paid to the implications of each of these farming types in relation to semi arid and dry sub humid ecosystems.

At the time of the Eleventh Congress, the weather is expected to be warm and humid, around 34 35o C (93.2 95o F).

(ii) Regional Coordination Centre for Research and Development of Coarse Grains, Pulses, Roots and Tuber Crops in the Humid Tropics of Asia and the Pacific

32. UNESCO and UNU, together with the Third World Academy of Sciences, promoted the South South Cooperation Programme on Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics.

Moreover, the Ramsar Secretariat has added to its list of Ramsar sites several significant sites in arid, semi arid and sub humid areas in Algeria, Morocco, Mali and Niger.

The majority of the country area is desert and contains little or none of the land classified as arid, semi arid, or dry sub humid that makes up drylands.

The Convention on Biological Diversity, based on the programme of work on the biodiversity of dry and sub humid lands, will collaborate with the secretariats of United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change to organize in 2006 regional synergy workshops in Asia or Latin America and the Caribbean to implement the programmes of work on dry and sub humid lands and agricultural biodiversity.

In Asia, cooperation under TPN 2 on agroforestry and soil conservation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas continued through a workshop that was organized in January 2005 in India.

The proper management of natural resources in semi arid, arid and sub humid zones based on sustained, long term investments must be considered as a major indicator of economic and social development.

Desertification is defined by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification as land degradation in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas resulting from various factors, including climatic variations and human activities .

Reasserting its commitment to promoting desertification control, eradicating extreme poverty, promoting sustainable development in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas and improving the livelihoods of people affected by drought and or desertification,

It is expected to result in successful compilation of information on the status and trends of biodiversity in dry and sub humid lands, and identification of lands of particular value and or under threat.

The stakeholders and institutions of the affected countries have not yet succeeded in adopting innovative and attractive approaches for medium and long term investments in their arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas.

Cornelius Osgood, an American anthropologist, attributed Korean extremism to the peninsula s weather. He observed that the Korean temperament is a product of long, harsh Siberian winters and hot, humid summers, with only short springs and autumns.

During 2005 the two secretariats have collaborated on work programme elements relating to the status and trends of biodiversity in dry and sub humid lands and the development of criteria and indicators for specific areas of value.

It has a total area of 318 million hectares which represents 6 per cent of the world apos s arid, semi arid and dry sub humid lands (ASALS) and 25 per cent of Africa apos s ASALS.

In the great majority of regions featuring arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas, one of the major weaknesses of the monitoring evaluation systems is that they are not always designed to make optimum use of the existing equipment.

193. UNESCO and UNU, together with the Third World Academy of Sciences, promote the South South Cooperation Programme on Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics, within which a workshop was organized in December in Yunnan Province, China.

In addition, traditional knowledge is an important component of the thematic programmes of work on agricultural biodiversity, forest biological diversity, marine and coastal ecosystems, inland waters, and dry and sub humid lands established by the Conference of the Parties to the Convention.

81. A joint initiative of UNU, UNESCO and the Third World Academy of Sciences, the South South Cooperation Programme for Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics was established in 1992 following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development.

The number of families without adequate accommodation in Republika Srpska (without water, heating, electricity), as well as the number of those who are living in overcrowded, humid wet, unsafe and in other ways inadequate conditions, is 94,570, which is a worrisome piece of information.

It may be noted in the reports that the forestation reforestation issue is not considered a priority in arid and semi arid countries this is because forests attract much more attention in more humid zones owing to the biodiversity aspect and their economic value.

USGS has also been cooperating with NASA plus the Universities of New Hampshire and Maryland to produce similar three date time series Landsat data sets for the Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project, which is studying the tropical forest regions of the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.

(a) The transfer of techniques for establishing narrow shelterbelts systems which were developed in the arid Xinjiang and Gansu Provinces and play a large role in preventing farmland from wind hazards and sand disasters, should be carried out in semi arid and dry sub humid areas in the regions where the physical conditions are similar

It is also noted that in a context of a sustained population dynamic in arid, semi arid and dry sub humid dry areas, the strategies to be devised must take account of the characteristics of the land that can be exploited in a sustainable way, so as to support the populations' lifestyles and ways of making a living.

The Executive Secretary of the CBD, in close collaboration with the Executive Secretaries of the UNCCD and the UNFCCC and in consultation with the Secretariat of the Global Environment Facility (GEF), convened a Regional Workshop for Africa on Synergies in implementing the Programmes of Work on Dry and Sub humid Lands and Agricultural Biodiversity, in Gaborone, Botswana.

Many difficulties nevertheless remain, in areas as diverse as ensuring consistency between decision making centres, coordination of institutional levels of action, choice of priorities for development and the challenges of combating desertification, expertise with technical tools suited for arid, semi arid and dry sub humid areas, conditions for making financial resources available, and enhancement of the capabilities of stakeholders on the ground.

The IPF concluded that restoration of arid, semi arid and dry sub humid zones should not focus narrowly on afforestation, but deal with broader aspects of forest ecosystem management, including social and economic issues, and urged Low Forest Cover Countries (LFCCs) to promote regeneration and restoration of degraded forest areas, including the involvement of indigenous peoples, local communities, forest dwellers and others.

Since the entire country is located in the tropical zone, its climate should be hot and humid however, the existence of various geographical accidents and features the Andes, high pressure movement of air masses from the South Pacific, Humboldt Current, etc. makes the Peruvian territory geographically complex, not only from a climatic standpoint, but also from the morphological, geological, ecological and economic standpoints.

The CBD based on the Joint Programme of Work on the Biodiversity of Dry and Sub humid Lands would collaborate with the UNCCD and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariatsS to hold in 2006 a regional synergy workshop in Asia or Latin America and the Caribbean in 2006 so as to implement the Pprogrammes of Wwork on Ddry and Ssub Hhumid Llands and Aagricultural Bbiodiversity.

In order to assist in closing the gap between developed and developing countries in the use of remotely sensed data, mainly because of lack of information on the availability of data, the GRID facility at Sioux Falls has compiled an exhaustive list of such data sets, such as NASA Pathfinder projects, the North American landscape characterization and the humid tropical forest inventory, as well as the NASA data grant program.

The meeting took place along with the workshop on Multiple Resource and Land Use Planning in Biosphere Reserves and Similar Managed Areas as Subjects for Eco development, which was hosted by the Chinese National Committee for Man and the Environment and organized as part of the South South Cooperation Programme on Environmentally Sound Socio Economic Development in the Humid Tropics of the UNESCO UNU Third World Academy of Sciences.