Sentences with phrase «as rainfall»

Areas recently denuded by extreme wildfires such as Santa Barbara are threatened by debris flows as rainfall amounts of 1 - 6 inches (up to ten inches locally) are predicted.

However, Pakistan water experts believe that poor land management, outdated irrigation systems, and logging are at least as much to blame as the rainfall.

[11] However as rainfall is concentrated into extreme precipitation flood risk increases.

The map (above) shows predicted changes in the annual number of days of extreme rainfall (defined as rainfall totals in excess of the historic 98th percentile) across the United States by 2041 - 2070 as compared to 1971 - 2000 if greenhouse gases continue to increase at a high rate (A2 scenario).

Yet even as rainfall occurs in heavier events, the periods between these extremes are likely to become longer, warmer, and drier.

«These forests support the livelihoods of 1.4 billion of the world's poorest people, and offer services critical to humanity's survival, such as rainfall generation and maintaining half of all life on Earth — benefits we all need but do not yet pay for.»

Once this La Nina faded, sea levels rebounded sharply, and that rise might have been incorrectly interpreted as some rapid acceleration in the long - term sea level rise, when in fact, mass was shifting back from land to ocean as rainfall patterns changed once more, but also much of the excess water on the land was draining back to the oceans.

Daily, the sun supplies large quantities of energy as rainfall, winds, radiation, etc..

This increases the amount of water going into the atmosphere and returning as rainfall.

Climate models that include these aerosol - cloud interactions fail to include a number of buffering responses, such as rainfall scavenging of the aerosols and compensating dynamical effects (which would reduce the magnitude of the aci cooling effect).

For example, you can identify it as the rainfall maximum.

In the seasonal and longer - term mean, this gives essentially the same result as the rainfall maximum.

Does it state what the impact of the warming will be on other factors such as rainfall?

The latter would have the most profound long - term impact, as rainfall variability and hence extreme fire conditions will increase in all modelled scenarios29.

Neither driver completed a lap at speed as the rainfall steadily increased.

Neither completed a lap at speed as the rainfall increased, and the team elected to sit out the remainder of the initial two - hour evening session.

This species needs moisture for optimal development, as well as some rainfall evenly distributed throughout the year.

Their main flavonoid content now differs depending on conditions such as rainfall and temperatures in the area where they are planted, as well as on the genetic differences that have occurred over time.

The various techniques have been used to confer the existence of significant relations between the number of Sunspots and different terrestrial climate parameters such as rainfall, temperature, dewdrops, aerosol and ENSO etc..

However, the effects of introducing these particles are not expected to be the same across the globe, and the offsetting of human - induced changes in other quantities such as rainfall and weather patterns may not work as well as for temperature.

The study bolsters the idea that Mars once had a warmer climate and active hydrologic cycle, with water evaporating from an ancient ocean, returning to the surface as rainfall and eroding the planet's extensive network of valleys.

In her analysis, the climate scientists made use of measured data compiled solely on land, such as rainfall, actual evaporation and potential evaporation.

Since at least the 1700s, scholars have argued that geographic differences such as rainfall, air temperature, and soil quality can have a major impact on economic development.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

Agriculture in the region was impacted such that the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared more than 1,000 counties in 26 states natural disaster areas as rainfall dropped an average of roughly 26 inches down to just over 13.

Ravens, rodents and rattlesnakes are moving to new locales as rainfall and temperatures shift over time (ClimateWire, Dec. 14, 2011).

In particular, I predict an abrupt shift in pattern formation as rainfall is decreased, which dramatically affects ecosystems,» says Sherratt.

UNEP has devised a «water exploitation index», which measures the amount of water a country uses as a percentage of its renewable water resources such as rainfall and river flows.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

The data set provides daily high and low temperatures, as well as rainfall, the world over.

You can also try playing calming music or sounds such as rainfall or waterfalls.

There are apps available which offer sounds such as rainfall or waves, which can be really useful in calming down a baby who won't stop crying.

This moisture - laden air then precipitates as rainfall during a hurricane, dissipating the heat energy from the water.

Not exact matches

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

President Donald Trump visited Texas on Tuesday to survey damage from the first major natural disaster to test his leadership in a crisis, as record rainfall from Tropical Storm Harvey lashed Houston and tens of thousands of people fled deluged homes.

Irma is not expected to linger over the U.S. mainland as long as Hurricane Harvey, a phenomenon that led to record rainfall and storm surge in areas of Texas and Louisiana.

As a result, the company emphasizes its up - to - the - minute start and stop times for rainfall.

That means the full accounting for the rainfall from Harvey, Irma, and Maria could take months to deliver as meteorologists piece together their models with the measurements they have.

Clearly, music as well as sonic cues have been used in marketing for decades, from the snap - crackle - pop of Rice Krispies and the fizz of Coca - Cola to the jungle - like rainfall heard before produce is misted at the grocery store.

As a tropical storm, Harvey dropped 40 - 61 inches of rainfall in southeast Texas and southwest Louisiana.

«As the planet warms, we have a good basis to think that the extreme rainfall should increase.»

Agricultural output subtracted from growth over the year as below - average rainfall reduced harvests, whereas non-farm GDP continued to expand strongly.

The rugged terrain of northwest Arabia, of which Syria and Palestine, it has sometimes been remarked, may be regarded as merely the largest and richest oasis, the numerous mountain peaks, the volcanoes apparently active at some period in ancient history, the desert with its speaking silences, the uncertainties of the weather in a land where all is dependent on the annual rainfall — all these and much more of the same sort are reflected in Israel's religion.

In warmer lands, such as tropical, subtropical and arid lands, deciduous plants may lose their leaves during dry seasons or during times when there are changes in rainfall.

The crop can thrive on as little as three to four inches of annual rainfall.

As an orchard keeper and chile grower, Nabhan has committed to do his share to curve the growing trend of climate change by conserving water between rainfalls, growing regional - appropriate crops, such as drought and heat - tolerant heirlooms, and soil - buildinAs an orchard keeper and chile grower, Nabhan has committed to do his share to curve the growing trend of climate change by conserving water between rainfalls, growing regional - appropriate crops, such as drought and heat - tolerant heirlooms, and soil - buildinas drought and heat - tolerant heirlooms, and soil - building.

Water challenge Diouf noted the special challenge posed by water as climate change would make rainfall increasingly unreliable.

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

High rainfall conditions and inflows to the Menindee Lakes during winter - spring 2016 provided the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder with an opportunity to deliver environmental water to support native fish populations in the Lower Darling as well as the longer - term health of the river system.

Record rainfall and growing concern over the politics of the Murray Darling Basin have not been enough to dent the values and demand for water entitlements in Australia's booming farming regions such as the Murrumbidgee.