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With an average annual precipitation of more than 10 meters in some locales, slopes sport temperate rainforests and shrubby ecosystems that trap soil before it can wash away to the seas, where its ability to scrub CO2 from the air would cease.

Kona is generally dry, with an average annual precipitation of 32.05 inches (814 mm).

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With an average annual air temperature of -2.2 F and an average precipitation of 3 - 50 mm per year, the McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica are dominated by dry soils underlain by permafrost.

The work, which covered 1936 - 2010, considered average monthly temperatures and total monthly precipitation for the water year (prior October to September) as possible predictors of annual streamflow.

Northern and western parts of Alaska had near - average annual precipitation totals, while the eastern and central parts of the state were wetter and much wetter than average.

The annual precipitation total for Alaska is slightly decreasing at an average rate of 0.03 inch per decade.

Figure 3 - 2 shows that average annual precipitation is highest west of the Continental Divide (MT DNRC 2015).

ACPI assumes a 1 percent annual increase in the rate of greenhouse gas concentrations through the year 2100, for little change in precipitation and an average temperature increase of 1.5 to 2 degrees centigrade at least through the middle of 21st century.

The majority of models suggest a slight increase in total average annual precipitation across the state, largely occurring in spring, particularly in the northwest.

Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.

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Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.

That is particularly the case in California, where decadal precipitation variance is typically equivalent to 20 — 50 % of mean annual averages, mostly because of changes in precipitation received between November and March [16 — 17].

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

On April 1, 2017, the state had received 144.3 percent of its average annual precipitation accumulation, 9 points shy of 1983's record for the date of 153.3.

The study predicts average annual temperatures in New York state will rise by 4 to 9 degrees by 2080 and precipitation will rise by 5 to 15 percent, with most of it in the winter....

A hot - humid climate is defined as a region that receives more than 20 inches (50 cm) of annual precipitation with approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 degrees F basis)[3,500 cooling degree days (10 degrees C basis)-RSB- or greater and where the monthly average outdoor temperature remains above 45 degrees F (7 degrees C) throughout the year.

A hot - dry climate is defined as region that receives less than 20 inches (50 cm) of annual precipitation with approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 degrees F basis)[3,500 cooling degree days (10 degrees C basis)-RSB- or greater and where the monthly average outdoor temperature remains above 45 degrees F (7 degrees C) throughout the year.

First point, a long known fact is that the upper midwest (meaning, the northern tier, west of the 25 inch annual average rainfall line) has a Summer precipitation maximum, so dry winters can indeed be expected.

Results show the percentage of the 1600 years of experiments during which solar maximum conditions produced increased (green) or decreased (brown) precipitation at different latitudes on the annual average.

Mixed - Humid - A mixed - humid and warm - humid climate is defined as a region that receives more than 20 inches of annual precipitation with approximately 4,500 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) or greater and less than approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) and less than approximately 5,400 heating degree days (65 °F basis) and where the average monthly outdoor temperature drops below 45 °F during the winter months.

A warm - dry and mixed - dry climate is defined as a region that receives less than 20 inches of annual precipitation with approximately 4,500 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) or greater and less than approximately 6,300 cooling degree days (50 °F basis) and less than approximately 5,400 heating degree days (65 °F basis) and where the average monthly outdoor temperature drops below 45 °F during the winter months.