Sentences with phrase «during dry years»

During dry years it takes over the sand bars, but floods in wet years clear things out and produce new sand bars.

«And it never failed that during the dry years the people forgot about the rich years, and during the wet years they lost all memory of the dry years.

The Nordic market is becoming increasingly dependent on imports from outside Scandinavia during dry years.

For example, snowpack is expected to continue to decrease over the coming decades, reducing surface water supplies in the Western US [5] In such a situation, groundwater becomes particularly critical, providing a buffer during dry years that helps protect water supplies and ensures a reliable food supply [6].

During dry years, when bay waters remained salty, one invader dominated above all others: the invasive tunicate Ciona robusta.

Additionally, he said, «we should be exploring ways to store excess run - off in groundwater aquifers so that we can use that water during dry years for human and environmental needs.»

Crops like almonds can not be left fallow during dry years without jeopardizing the trees, which during droughts require extensive irrigation in the California Central Valley.

Unlike row crops, tree crops can not be left fallow during dry years without jeopardizing the trees, and hence future crops.

During the dry year, the bats tended to come out relatively early, and hotter days meant even earlier starts, she found.

A dog hangs around an abandoned farmhouse in February near Bakersfield, California, during the driest year on record.

Not exact matches

Because closed - end fund managers have a fixed timeframe during which they have to spend their dry powder, strong fundraising should help prop up demand for real estate in the years to come.

If the Social Security Trust Fund runs dry sometime during the next 30 years as projected, revenues from tax collections would be sufficient to pay only about three - fourths of scheduled benefits.

Results from the Bain Private Equity Survey indicate that GPs sitting on a mountain of dry powder may not have been giving fund - raising their full attention during the year.

Is using dehydrator, «cook» until crispy (this will vary depending on your humidity level, it is quite dry during this time of year in my apartment so it took about 2 hours).

During a series of wet years or successful watering events, demands (agriculture and environment) for water are low, while extended dry conditions commonly result in high demands.

Just like irrigators, environmental water holders and manager plan for the likelihood of reduced water allocations by deliberately using carry over (where it is available) from the previous water year, to support the environment during a forecast dry year.

As far as last year I believe that Alexis also struggled during a dry patch where our attack was stagnant.

Question: After a four - year tournament dry spell, during which he stands, in his words,» 0 for 80,» why doesn't dapper Dave Marr just quit golf?

Duncan remained at the core through it all, seeing San Antonio through that dry spell — a dry spell during which the team kept winning 50 games a year, mind you — and into the next period of real title contention.

I may get a tube since I'm addicted to lip gloss during this time of year (cold, dry weather).

We finally just got the 3 year old potty trained during the day time, and now I am trying to figure out how to get him to stay dry while asleep so that he will be completely pull up free.

Being able to stay dry through the night may not happen for months, or even years, after a child is potty trained during the day.

Especially during drier months throughout the year, humidifiers are a great way to help get rid of and prevent dry skin and chapped lips for your baby.

Through breastfeeding three kids (tandem nursing both times) continually for the past 5 + years, I have discovered that I seem to have a relatively uncommon tendency toward eczema, actually, that appears on the areolas during the cold, dry winter months.

Learn why staying dry at night can take your child years longer than staying dry during the day — and why it's completely...

Most kids are able to stay dry during the day by age 4, but staying dry at night can take months — or even years longer.

Children who were fed other milk or solids during their first 4 months in addition to breast milk had an increased risk of wheezing, shortness of breath, dry cough and persistent phlegm during the first 4 years, compared to children who were exclusively breastfed for their first 4 months.

Even though your child may be clean and dry all day, it could take several more months or years for them to stay dry during naps or all night.

«Lassa fever use to occur only during dry season but now we are contending with an all year transmission of Lassa fever.

The risk of civil war in tropical countries increases during hot, dry El Nino years, perhaps due to food shortages.

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

This decreases natural storm runoff during high - flow winter months while contributing proportionately more water to streamflows during the drier months that make up about 80 percent of the region's calendar year.

Sheth said that the 2010 - 2014 study, which began while she and Angert were at Colorado State University, occurred during record hot and dry years in California.

Still, Turtle has seen no evidence of year - round rivers, suggesting Titan might resemble the deserts of the US Southwest, where river channels are dry most of the year but carry water during rare rains.

«During very dry years, it doesn't matter what vegetation you have on a landscape, whether a tall tree or a small shrub,» Bart said.

But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.

Freshwater is now available all year round to the snails, whereas previously saltwater used to flow upriver during the dry season.

Amphibians are not necessarily known for their architectural acumen, but a new study shows that during the driest parts of the year some frogs take advantage the moist habitat offered by a ball of elephant poop.

Roughly 14 million years ago during the Middle Miocene Climate Transition, ice stopped melting in Antarctica's southern Dry Valleys.

The rice loss is particularly strong during the dry season, the higher yielding of the year's two crops.

Geological evidence pointed to the springs being active during the driest periods of climate fluctuations that occurred around 1.8 million years ago, a critical period for hominin evolution.

Brawn's team looked at the relationship between population growth rates and the length of the dry season during those 33 years, then simulated another 50 years with an average of a 10 percent change in the rainfall pattern in Panama's dry season.

Wildfires are an annual occurrence during the dry season in Indonesia and are responsible up to 10 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions each year.

And 150 years ago, seems like it was a tough summer in London because [the] Thames, well let me just read what we wrote in June of 1860: «Last year during three months of very dry weather, old father Thames, that once - classic stream, became a huge sewer sending forth fetid odors over all the British metropolis.

JUNE 1860 WHIFFY THAMES — «Last year, during three months of very dry weather, old Father Thames — that once classic stream — became a huge sewer, sending forth foetid odors over all the British metropolis.

For the past two years, however, some parts of the country have had little respite from a destructive deluge during what are traditionally drier times of year.

For example, in years that had more than average burning during the dry season, measurements of soil moisture, evaporation and vegetation greenness — all of which help to trigger rain — decreased in the following wet season.

The results, which include information during the last glacial and interglacial periods, showed that relief from the current dry spell across the interior of the Middle East is unlikely within the next 10,000 years.

The nuclear spent fuel produced during 14 years of operation at Rancho Seco was kept cool in a water pool on site and is now in protective dry storage.

Mission team members hope that observations the spacecraft makes during its one - year prime mission will yield insights about Mars» shift from a relatively warm, wet world in the ancient past to the cold, dry planet it is today.