Sentences with phrase «after a drought occurs»

«After a drought occurs, managers may have a couple of years to do something to prevent declines from causing a tree's death,» Berdanier said.

Not exact matches

The 2002 drought came after several years of good rainfall (averaged across the country), rather than during an extended period of low rainfall such as occurred in the 1940s.

One noteworthy after effect of the 2010 - 2011 La Niña could be the drought in the Horn of Africa — which occurs in an ENSO - related cycle as well.]

Now consider the flip side, the Sahel drought that often occurs a few decades after the expansion.

The first major historically recorded drought in the Sahel occurred around 1640, and a major drought after generally wet conditions occurred, based on the reports of European travellers, [10] during the 1680s.

If after five years of filtered sunlight a disaster occurred — a drought in India and Pakistan, for example, a possible effect in one of the modeling studies — we would not know whether it was caused by global warming, the solar filter or natural variability.

Because much of the cost will be realized after the emissions occur, the funds would have to be invested in order to produce resources in the future to compensate or make the best of conditions then; this can be investment in infrastructure (aquaducts and flood water management planning) and such things as R&D for drought / flood resistant crops, efforts to save ecosystems (those parts that will survive the climate change, or otherwise planting trees, etc, where they will do well in the future, or otherwise reducing other stresses so that ecosystems will be more resilient to climate change)(remember that ecosystems provide us with ecosystem services), etc, and / or investment in the economy in general so that more resources will be available in the future to compensate for losses and pay for adaptation.

«Our results indicate that since 1963, drought - induced water stress has led to a weakening of the biomass carbon sink across a large area of the western Canadian boreal forest, with the largest reduction occurring after 2000,» the authors write, only to warn that «western Canada's boreal forests may become net carbon sources if the climate change — induced droughts continue to intensify.»