Sentences with phrase «annual precipitation amounts»

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The tree rings indicate the minimum amount of annual precipitation necessary to grow corn was exceeded only 2.5 percent of the time during that time period.

Communities can receive up to 18 points depending on the amount of annual precipitation, the number of rainy and snowy days each year, and how often the temperature dips below zero.

In other words, there is a tendency for rarer 1 - day annual extreme precipitation amounts to occur later in the temporal record.

(Top) Distribution of linear trends of annual land precipitation amounts over the period 1901 to 2005 (% per century) and (middle) 1979 to 2005 (% per decade).

Conversely, precipitation totals at the higher end of the spectrum typically only contribute a small amount to the annual totals.

When a dendro can point to a tree ring and say «Based on this ring, formed in 1657, we know the annual temperature for the region, the precipitation, the natural fertilization rate and the amount of sunlight the tree received,» they have got something!

Average annual precipitation varies by about 20 inches throughout the Northeast with the highest amounts observed in coastal and select mountainous regions.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

A number of the comments here focus on the amount of annual precipitation as of an increase in mean precipitation means more water will be available to meet human needs.

At climateological time scales, the amount of readily available surface water is basically mean annual precipitation minus mean annual evaporation / transpiration.

Site environmental variables in 2007 — 13: daily precipitation (annual amounts noted); daily mean soil water content at 30 cm below surface (SWC); daily maximum vapor pressure deficit (VPD); daily mean air temperature over the forest canopy (Ta).

Basic theory, climate model simulations and empirical evidence all confirm that warmer climates, owing to increased water vapour, lead to more intense precipitation events even when the total annual precipitation is reduced slightly, and with prospects for even stronger events when the overall precipitation amounts increase.

Despite the key role meltwater plays in people's livelihoods and on the region's ecosystem services, such factors as annual amounts of ice and snow melt, its seasonal and spatial variability, as well as the contributions of precipitation to these basins, have not been clearly enumerated (24).

«s. Based on a range of emissions scenarios (B1, A1B, A2), a 1 - in - 20 year annual maximum daily precipitation amount is likely to become a 1 - in - 5 to 1 - in - 15 year event by the end of the 21st century in many regions.

This means that precipitation effects are dependent on precipitation frequency as well as annual amount.

Wastewater or sludge storage lagoons are designed, in part, based on statistical probability of annual precipitation and evaporation amounts.