Sentences with phrase «average precipitation totals»

In contrast, France received less than 90 percent of its average precipitation total for 2015, making this one of the 10 driest years for the country in the past half century.

It was also a very dry year: «The average precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation.

The average precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation.

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Maps of median TAE averaged across 23 model simulations for (a) and (b) mean surface air temperature, (c) and (d) highest daily maximum temperature, (e) and (f) lowest daily minimum temperature, (g) and (h) total precipitation, and (i), (j) maximum 1 - d precipitation for (a), (c), (e), (g) and (i) June - August and (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) December - February.

In France, even with a drier than average June, total summer (June - August) precipitation was more than 140 percent of average, marking one of the 10 wettest summers since national records began in 1959.

The CONUS precipitation total for summer was 9.19 inches, 0.87 inch above average and the 16th wettest on record.

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.

The August CONUS precipitation total was slightly below average and ranked in the driest third of the historical record.

Nationally, the components that measure extremes in warm maximum and minimum temperature and one - day precipitation totals were much above average.

The Alaska winter precipitation total was 7.85 inches, 0.30 inch below average, and ranked near the median value in the 1925 - 2015 record.

The Alaska annual precipitation total was 40.10 inches, 3.40 inches above average.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

The May precipitation total for the nation was 4.44 inches, 1.53 inches above average.

December rounded out the year with a precipitation total of 1.65 inches, 1.42 inch below average, the fourth driest such month on record.

The October precipitation total was 135 percent of average and the 13th wettest on record.

The March - May precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. was 9.40 inches, 1.46 inches above the 20th century average.

The summer precipitation total was 10.87 inches, 0.87 inch above average, also the 26th wettest on record.

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.

The November CONUS precipitation total was 3.35 inches, 1.12 inches above average and the fourth wettest on record.

The autumn precipitation total was 15.76 inches, 3.41 inches above average, the sixth wettest on record.

The CONUS autumn precipitation total was 8.38 inches, 1.50 inches above average, ranking as the 15th wettest and wettest since 2009.

With precipitation records dating back to 1947, May 2015 was the driest May on record for the country, with total average rainfall for the month just 25 percent of normal.

Elements that contributed to the above - average seasonal USCE were warm maximum and minimum temperatures, particularly in the West, and one - day precipitation totals.

The Arkansas precipitation total was 10.65 inches, 6.36 inches above average.

The Missouri precipitation total was 7.86 inches, 4.95 inches above average.

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

We rank the average summer temperature and precipitation totals for our Climate Matters markets.

Although not the driest month of the year, September is usually much more arid, with average total precipitation of 1.61 inches.

Total average precipitation in the Craters of the Moon area is between 15 — 20 inches (380 — 510 mm) per year.

Rain is very scarce during this month, with total precipitation barely reaching 3 mm due to minor sprinkles above the islands that last for only 3 days of the month on average.

The mean precipitation total is 5.3 mm, spread over an average of 2.5 wet days per month.

Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3319160060 The BACC II Author Team averaged frequency of extreme 1 - day precipitation totals above 15 mm and a... 4.6 Cloudiness and Solar Radiation 4.6.1 Cloudiness Records of cloudiness and solar... There is a trend of decreasing cloud cover over the Baltic Sea basin......

On average in the United States, the amount of rain falling during the heaviest 1 percent of rainstorms has increased nearly 20 percent during the past 50 years — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation.4, 5 The Midwest saw an even larger average increase of 31 percent, surpassed only by the Northeast (at 67 percent).4 Scientists attribute the rise in heavy precipitation to climate change that has already occurred over the past half - century.6

We created four largely independent climate variables to represent present climate, derived from average monthly mean temperature and monthly total precipitation from the 1 km resolution DAYMET 1980 — 1998 mean climate database (www.daymet.org)[63].

«Once - in - five - year» heavy precipitation events — two - day precipitation totals that are exceeded, on average, only once in a 5 - year period — are becoming more common.

With this in mind, and given how difficult it can be to dislodge deeply - entrenched ridging such as is currently being observed, I estimate that there is an above average probability that total precipitation for water year 2013 - 2014 will be below normal once again.

One measure of heavy precipitation events is a two - day precipitation total that is exceeded on average only once in a 5 - year period, also known as the once - in - five - year event.

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).

Total precipitation and snow water equivalent (SWE) are well above average for all three regions, yet SWE is lagging behind precipitation.

If we take a further step and consider the atmospheric state at a location (or even the global average) with respect to temperature or precipitation, we may observe that physics does not imply any preservation law for temperature (the total energy is preserved, not temperature) or for precipitation (the total water balance is preserved, not the rate of precipitation).

Specifically, this analysis is of the average of minimum and maximum daily temperature as well as precipitation totals.

Right panels show the predictability horizon for annual mean precipitation (above the dashed line), soil water averaged from the surface, and total water storage (below the dashed line), estimated from the 39 individual 10 member hindcast experiments (red) and the 1st order Markov model with 10,000 ensemble members (black circle) for the b the northern, d southern, and f these difference indices.

Total seasonal precipitation and mean seasonal temperature averaged over Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona (17); five - year running means, 1900 — 2008.

The associated precipitation anomalies include above - average totals in the Gulf of Alaska extending into the Pacific Northwestern United States, and below - average totals over the upper Midwestern United States.

PCIC has made seasonal maps of average temperature and total precipitation departures from the 30 - year climatology at observational weather stations in BC, for all months from 1972 onward.

As the Earth warms, the amount of rain or snow falling in the heaviest one percent of storms has risen nearly 20 percent on average in the United States — almost three times the rate of increase in total precipitation between 1958 and 2007.