Sentences with phrase «precipitation levels determine»
Precipitation levels determine not only how much water we have to drink but also the performance of entire economic sectors, from agriculture to recreation to tourism.
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She and her colleagues wanted to determine how Upper Colorado River Basin winter precipitation, March - July temperatures and November soil moisture levels influence annual streamflow at Lees Ferry, Arizona.
In a paper published last month in the SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, author Jonathan A. Sherratt uses a mathematical model to determine the levels of precipitation within which such pattern formation occurs.
As noted by Reager (2016) in A Decade of Sea Level Rise Slowed by Climate - Driven Hydrology, researchers had determined the seasonal delay in the return of precipitation to the oceans causes sea levels to oscillate by 17 ± 4 mm [~ 0.7 inches] per year.
Changes in lake levels are determined primarily by changes in river inflows and precipitation onto and evaporation from the lake.
It determines how much of the radiation delivered to land goes into warming the near - surface atmosphere compared with how much is released as latent heat fuelling precipitation at higher levels.
Precipitation is an essential element in determining the availability of drinking water and the level of soil moisture.