Sentences with phrase «lack of rainfall in»

The lack of rainfall in October and November came as a blow to farmers because September — just before the planting season — was tantalizingly wet.

They also concluded that the lack of rainfall in southeast Brazil in 2014 and 2015 while unusual was not unprecedented, with similar dry periods occurring before, with the most recent in 2001.

Lack of rainfall in recent months has left soils completely dry and unable to release moisture that would take up heat from the air through evaporation.

Not exact matches

The drought in California does not appear to have had a major effect on this years» crop, but many fear that continuing lack of rainfall could have a large impact on 2015 results.

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

This is because future arid cities will remain water - limited due to the lack of permeable surfaces in cities, while their rural neighbors are projected to be no longer «dry» due to higher rainfall.

The researchers examined the drought in terms of lack of rainfall, water availability, and water demand.

Rising temperatures, a lack of rainfall and fewer storms allow pollution to gather and stagnate, and that in turn could have detrimental effects on public health.

If this is the NYT article you are thinking of http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/earth/extreme-heat-is-covering-more-of-the-earth-a-study-says.html then Hoerling apparently has not read the paper he in commenting on since «Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.»

It is estimated that more than 62 thousand families have been affected by the lack of rainfall with over half the municipalities in the region having enacted a state of emergency.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

«In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.&raquIn summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.&raquin a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.&raquin drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century.»

The report, titled Climate Change in Pakistan, forecast low agricultural productivity from lack of water for irrigation and erratic rainfall.

A drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period during which there is not enough water to meet the needs of people, animals, and plants.5 Drought is not simply the absence of rainfall — it also includes a lack of surface moisture and irrigation water at critical points in the growing season for crops.

Drought always causes higher temperatures, but curiously they also reported that given the lack of rainfall the high temperatures were not as high as expected writing, «The scatter plot shows that 2012 was the driest summer in the historical record, though the temperature anomaly of +2 °C was exceeded by two prior summers — 1934 and 1936.

Even modest changes in seasonality of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.

In terms of practical interest (as opposed to scientific interest) the main concerns relate to out - 0f - season rainfall, lack of seasonal rainfall (drought) and floods.

For example, people sometimes refer to trends / lack of trend in the average annual rainfall for Australia, which has several climate zones.

Cellulosic ethanol proponents have pushed the idea of using farm waste as a way to boost biofuel production without impacting food crops, but such conversion may carry a hidden cost in areas with insufficient rainfall or lacking irrigation, warns a soil scientist from Washington State University.

Drought occurs when there is a lack of rainfall over a long period of time, resulting in water shortages for groups of people, activities or the environment.

the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (lack of rainfall) since the middle of the 20th century, owing to lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies of inferred trends on the index choice.

This comes in terms of the lack of water from glacial melt, or changes in disease vectors, or rainfall patterns, or the lodge pole pine being killed off by beetles in million - acre swaths.

According to the Texas Forest Service, as many as 500 million trees in the state — roughly 10 percent of the forests there — have been killed within the last year alone as a result of 2011's bizarre lack of rainfall.

However, back in the MDB — Cai and Cowan's paper has provided some evidence that reductions in rainfall alone are not fully responsible for the lack of runoff with high drought temperatures being a contributing factor.