Sentences with phrase «ethiopian highlands»

Some examples thereof follow, and then it states: «However, not all changes in climate and climate variability will be negative, as agriculture and the growing seasons in certain areas (for example, parts of the Ethiopian highlands and parts of southern Africa such as Mozambique), may lengthen under climate change, due to a combination of increased temperature and rainfall changes (Thornton et al., 2006).

KIM I would have found myself saying the same thing but for the fact that the mass of water allowed to flow thru the dams varies the same as the principle rainfall (Ethiopian Highlands & Blue NIle flow) above the dam.

The Nile Flood evapotransporting back onto the Ethiopian Highlands from where the flood originates.

In contrast, model agreement on increases at +7 °C becomes less widespread than at lower warming, with the Tibetan Plateau, the Ethiopian Highlands, northeastern Siberia, and southwestern Canada still consistently experiencing higher.

All tours start in the town of Mek» ele in the Ethiopian highlands.

A sense of sheer joy is coupled with the ever - present danger posed by predators in a less - colourful, but no less spectacular, image of spirited gelada baboons as the sun sets on the Ethiopian Highlands [Additional file 3].

Sulfurous gases released into the atmosphere impacted monsoon rainfall in the Ethiopian highlands, weakening the rain belt system and, as a result, depleting the flow of water to the river.

«You must have rain in the Ethiopian highlands to irrigate the Nile valley, so if monsoon rains are disrupted, the usual floods would have been lost,» says Ludlow.

«You must have rain in the Ethiopian highlands to irrigate the Nile valley, so if monsoon rains are disrupted, the usual floods would have been lost,» says Francis Ludlow at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland, the team's climate historian.

There are more than 150 species of beetles in the genus Calathus, 17 of which have only been found in the mountains of the Ethiopian Highlands.

Hunter is an expert on geladas, the grass - eating primates he studies on the Ethiopian highlands.

For one thing, he thinks the team should have compared the results of their climate simulations with real - world data such as tree - ring data from the Ethiopian highlands.

But those rulers may have had more to blame than just bad luck: According to a new study, volcanic eruptions around the ancient world likely suppressed the Nile's annual floods — critical for agriculture — by altering rainfall upriver in the Ethiopian highlands several times from the third to first centuries B.C.E..

In May, they reported that 90 percent of the Atlantic storms followed a period of above - average lightning activity over the Ethiopian Highlands.

If the aerosols are dispersed primarily in the Northern Hemisphere, the greater cooling in this hemisphere can also diminish the summertime heating that drives the northward migration of monsoon winds over Africa up to the Ethiopian highlands where the Blue Nile is supplied with its summer floodwaters.

«Our models showed Hopi corn could grow well in the Ethiopian highlands where one of their staple foods, the Ethiopian banana, has been afflicted by emerging pests, disease and blasts of intense heat,» Bocinsky said.

In the Ethiopian highlands, where the legend of Kaldi, the goatherd, originated, coffee trees grow today as they have for centuries.

Not exact matches

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — In the Amharic language, Addis Ababa, named when the Ethiopian capital moved to the highland city at the end of the 19th century, means «new flower.»