Sentences with phrase «accompanied by drought»

A powerful El Niño is accompanied by drought and forest fire on the western side of the Pacific, and torrential rain and floods on the normally dry eastern Pacific coasts.

Quite the contrary: If warmth is accompanied by drought, the soil animals eat even less.

Not exact matches

The rise in temperature will be accompanied by erratic rainfall and increasing drought, the likes of which have already been seen in the country, according to the report.

In the nation's heartland the searing heat was accompanied by a ruinous drought that ravaged crops and prompted talk of a dust bowl to rival that of the 1930s.

The outbreaks were accompanied by explosions in a tick - borne disease fueled by exceptional droughts, according to a new study.

15 N ‰), (c) Index of atmospheric purity evaluated by biodiversity and the cover of bryophytes, (d) Increase of drought stress accompanying urbanization evaluated by the distribution of drought - sensitive bryophyte species.

shows us a flock of maddened, thirsty sheep careering down a hillside stripped of grass by drought, accompanied by rollicking sheepdogs and cowboy shepherds on horses.

1868: a prolonged drought in the northern regions was accompanied by devastating fires in various regions.

In the course of the last 15 years, governments and authorities the world over have been warned loudly and repeatedly that global warming could be accompanied by a greater risk of severe weather - related events: floods, heatwaves, ice storms, typhoons and droughts.

There is a troublesome drought in Texas, but this we predict will be accompanied by a severe brainstorm and the loss of groundwater, clean air and any hope of stopping the next business - fracking!

For example, as an accompanying News & Views article by Prof Sonia Seneviratne and Dr Philippe Ciais points out, the study doesn't include some of the non-climate impacts of drought on ecosystems.

The first rain gauges in the Sahel date from 1898 and they reveal that a major drought, accompanied by large - scale famine, in the 1910s, followed by wet conditions during the 1920s and 1930s reaching a peak with the very wet year of 1936.

The reasons cited (see also the accompanying Nature article by Lars Hedin) for the tree mortality are: a) the faster the trees grow, the quicker they die; b) drought periods, as we saw in 2010; and c) possible limitations of N and P nutrients.

The Dust Bowl drought was atypical for a North American drought in many ways, most notably the fact that it was centered over the Great Plains rather than in the southwest and was accompanied by large scale dust storms that were unprecedented in the historical record.

Fig. 2 gives an example of a QRA − HPA event that began as a QRA event with 10 August 2012 as the central date, followed, with a lag of 5 d, by an HPA event during the strong heat waves in the western and eastern United States, accompanied by severe flooding in the central United States that occurred simultaneously with destructive flooding in central China and severe droughts in eastern and western China (44).

The QRA event with 10 August 2012 as the central date, followed, with a lag of 5 d, by the observed HPA event during heat waves in the western and eastern United States and severe flooding in the central United States, accompanied by flooding in central China and droughts in eastern and western China (44).

The Physical Science Basis, Cambridge, 996 pp, 2007), climate models project a fast rate of southwestern warming accompanied by devastating droughts (Seager et al. in Science 316:1181 — 1184, 2007; Williams et al. in Nat Clim Chang, 2012).

Southwestern droughts are, typically, accompanied by above average temperatures because of factors such as subsidence, a lack of cloud cover, drying soils, and reduced evapotranspiration (e.g., 11 — 13).

It is worth noting that droughts of the 1950s and of recent years were both accompanied by cool Pacific and warm Atlantic SSTs (37).

The recent «non-winter» effect in much of the real Upper Midwest has been accompanied by isolated «snow droughts» (2002 - 03, last year... jury still out on this one), but otherwise normal, near - normal, and above - normal levels of snowfall.

Even more severe droughts occurred much longer ago, accompanied by salt deposits up to 150 feet (45 meters) thick, researchers said at the meeting.