Sentences with phrase «annual monsoon»

On the other hand, the fact that Arizona averages less than 13 inches of rain per year, most of which comes during the short period of the annual monsoon, also opens homeowners in Arizona to a unique threat that they need to address through homeowner's insurance: wildfires.

The Yamuna herself is fed by melting snows of the Himalayas, while the catchments of the floodplains act as a drain for the annual monsoon rains.

The resulting annual monsoon might have an effect on energy balance too.

Add a four - month annual monsoon season and top off with a climate change - driven sea level rise and more frequent, powerful tropical cyclones, and you're looking at catastrophic flooding.

Emissions produced by human activity have caused annual monsoon rainfall to decline over the past 50 years, a study suggests.

Because the model only describes the rainy season and does not capture the annual monsoon cycle, abrupt transitions in the bistable regime can only be interpreted intraseasonally, e.g., a month of heavy rain followed by a month of extraordinarily weak precipitation.

Climate: Cambodia enjoys warm to hot year round weather and owes its changes to the annual monsoon with alternating wet and dry seasons.

Now it's the turn of the Indian Ocean, where pollution from the subcontinent has been wafting over the Bay of Bengal, cooling the sea surface and weakening the annual monsoon.

In Indonesia, meanwhile, the annual monsoon rains are becoming more intense over shorter periods, often knocking the flowers off the cacao trees, thereby preventing pod formation.

Statistical analysis revealed a pattern: Each documented introduction of plague in Europe was preceded by a significant climate event in Asia, such as a sudden shift in the annual monsoon pattern in the mid-14th century, which pushed the northern border of activity from China to Siberia.

The western state of Gujarat and other parts of India are waiting for the annual monsoon rains to cool down the triple - digit temperatures.

In South Asia, for example, black carbon disrupts annual monsoons and accelerates the melting of the Himalayan - Tibetan glaciers, threatening water availability and food security for millions of people.

Not exact matches

This knowledge could be very important for the 600 million people living on the Indian subcontinent who rely on the monsoon, which provides the area with 75 percent of its annual rainfall.

The Indian Summer Monsoon accounts for up to 80 percent of the annual rainfall in the Indian subcontinent.

In some parts of the country, the torrents of rain that characterize monsoon season account for more than 90 percent of the total annual precipitation.

At the heart of the unrest were starvation and famine in the Ptolemaic Kingdom, where grain harvests were critically dependent on annual flooding of fertile plains by the East African monsoon.

Annual values of the East Asia summer monsoon index derived from MSLP gradients between land and ocean in the East Asia region.

In 2015, the monsoon made its annual onset over Kerala on June 5th, just a few days later than normal.

Rainfall during the Indian monsoon season, which runs from June to September and accounts for about 70 % of annual rainfall, exhibits decadal variability.

The cooling clouds and precipitation that come with annual return of the North American monsoon promise to break the record heat in the Southwest and temper things a bit (relatively speaking anyways) through the rest summer.

Monsoon season runs from June to October and brings with it around 75 % of Cambodia's annual rainfall!

The annual summer monsoon that drops rain onto East Asia, an area with about a billion people, has shifted dramatically in the distant past, at times moving northward by as much as 400 kilometers and doubling rainfall in that northern reach.

The rains during the 4 - month - long monsoon season (June to September)-- accounting for more than 80 % of India's annual rainfall — are crucial for the agricultural economy.

Models disagree on annual mean precipitation changes in the NA monsoon region.

Roughly 1.7 billion people rely on the annual Indian summer monsoons for water to drink, grow crops, and raise livestock.

Last year, the subcontinent's annual summer monsoon arrived months late, parching farms and causing widespread blackouts by reducing hydroelectric supplies.

Black carbon (BC) and organic carbon (OC) concentrations in the Zuoqiupu ice core for the monsoon (June - Sept) and non-monsoon (Oct - May) seasons, and the annual mean.

About five times the size of Texas and as much as eight km high in places, the Tibetan Plateau greatly influences Asia's weather, including the annual deluge of rain and strong winds that come with monsoons.

Though the Tibetan earthquake was going to happen at some time, it is possible that changes in ice loading on Himalayan glaciers, changes in water volume outflows in the annual Asian monsoon, and sea level rise adding pressure to the geological plates below coastlines — especially in low - lying Bangladesh — had an impact.

The Australian monsoon covers the northern third of continental Australia and surrounding seas and, considering its closely coincident location and annual evolution, is often studied in conjunction with the monsoon over the islands of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

«It is found that the climate of southwest Australia bears a strong seasonality in the annual cycle and exhibits a monsoon - like atmospheric circulation, which is called the southwest Australian circulation (SWAC) because of its several distinct features characterizing a monsoonal circulation: the seasonal reversal of winds, alternate wet and dry seasons, and an evident land — sea thermal contrast.

Around 80 percent of India's annual rainfall comes from the Indian summer monsoon, spanning...

This is different in Andhra Pradesh state rainfall that receives rainfall during the southwest and northeast monsoons and cyclonic activity presented 132 year cycle in annual precipitation.

Cyclones in Bay of Bengal follow 56 years cycle similar to Andhra Pradesh Northeast Monsoon rainfall [Southwest and Northeast Monsoons rainfall follow opposite pattern but annual rainfall presents a 132 year cycle];

But a new discussion paper, «The role of glaciers in stream flow from the Nepal Himalaya,» (Alford and Armstrong, The Cryosphere Discuss., 4, 469 - 494, 2010) concludes that glacial runoff contributes only about 4 % to the total annual stream flow of the Ganges system; the great majority is contributed by monsoon rains.