Sentences with phrase «less evapotranspiration»

That gives a decrease in stomatal area / density, so gives LESS evapotranspiration.

Not exact matches

«Our observation that plants use roughly the same amount of water regardless of water availability suggests that a warmer or longer growing season may have a relatively small effect on evapotranspiration and thus could affect landscape water balances less than we previously thought,» Hamilton said.

Hence, in determining evapotranspiration there is a trade - off between less solar radiation and increased surface wetness, with the latter generally dominant.

Without such action, deforestation rates could well accelerate for another six years — by which time it will certainly be too late for many millions of hectares of Amazon forest — and there will be considerably less rain evapotranspiration to sustain the rest.

Islands smaller than the spatial resolution used in global climate models (GCMs)-- including French Polynesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Lesser Antilles — are difficult to assess because GCMs can only provide estimates of precipitation there, not potential evapotranspiration.

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

Plants response to higher CO2 levels result in less water utilation for photosynthesis (esp C4) which results in large gains of leaf growth (more growth for same water)-- forcing evapotranspiration to increase.

We found in our analyses that, for such things as evapotranspiration and runoff, year - to - year leaf variations are less important than year - to - year variations in meteorology.