Sentences with phrase «between rainfall»

They measured precipitation and atmospheric conditions during the period by using a new statistical method that accounts for spatial and temporal relationships between rainfall levels, temperature, and other geophysical phenomena.

Areas that gained suitable days because of water availability also lost days because of solar radiation, and vice versa; this could be explained by coupled dynamics between rainfall and cloud cover [3].

Changes in suitable plant growing days due to the interaction between solar radiation and soil moisture were minimal -LRB--2 %, 0 %, and 2 % under RCP 2.6, RCP 4.5, and RCP 8.5, respectively; dashed purple lines in Fig 3), although there was considerable spatial variability (Fig 2E) due to the coupling between rainfall and cloud cover.

The correlation between the rainfall threshold and increased fire activity was evident across all satellite data used in the study, which makes the threshold a useful benchmark for predicting and preparing for potential fire episodes.

The statistical forecasting methods are based on empirical relationships between rainfall over specific parts of the GHA and some global / regional / local climate system indices.

68 Wallace S. Broecker, Dorothy Peteet, Irena Hajdas, Jo Lin, Elizabeth Clark, «Antiphasing between Rainfall in Africa's Rift Valley and North America's Great Basin,» Quaternary Research 50:12 - 20 (1998).

Monsoons - a resource looking at the link between rainfall and food production in India.

This appears to be related to a poor representation of the spatial relationships between rainfall variability and zonal wind patterns across southeast Australia in the latest Coupled Model Intercomparison Project ensemble, particularly in the areas where weather systems embedded in the mid-latitude westerlies are the main source of cool - season rainfall.

• «Decreased water availability due to increased temperature and longer periods of time between rainfall events, coupled with an increase in societal demand is very likely to affect many sectors of the Southeast's economy.»

But a new study of more than 1.5 million seniors finds no relationship between rainfall and doctor visits for pain.

[Anupam B. Jena et al., Association between rainfall and diagnoses of joint or back pain: retrospective claims analysis]

The strongest association between rainfall and dengue was found around 6 to 10 weeks following rainfalls of more than 300 mm per week, which amounts to very wet conditions and floods.

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 - building.

Not exact matches

An earlier prediction of a moderate La Nina, which is associated with higher rainfall, for the spring / summer season between September and February, had eased farmers» drought fears.

It's challenging to make direct comparisons between extreme rainfall events since their weather systems (e.g., hurricanes, thunderstorms) behave differently, so scientists draw on several benchmarks depending on the situation.

During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

The government - backed «winter drought project», throwing tarpaulins over rows of vines, is designed to simulate reduced rainfall of between 15 and 20 per cent that the region is projected to experience in 2030 - 50.

The important factor is that temperatures must remain mild, neither too hot nor too cold, ideally between 59 - 75 degrees, with about 60 inches of rainfall a year.

The Sierra Leone meteorological department did not issue a warning to hasten evacuations from danger zones before the torrential rainfall between August 11 to August 14, AFP reported.

Whereas last year it was principally the farmers that were affected by the dry conditions and the public water supply was not affected, I think it is more likely that the public water supply will be affected unless we have substantial rainfall between now and the summer.»

Rainfall amounts are expected to be between 1 and 3 inches.

Along with Niagara County, Orleans and Monroe counties are also severely affected by the rising water levels along the shoreline, caused by an increased amount of rainfall this season along with the controversial Plan 2014, an international agreement between the United States and Canada to regulate the water levels in Lake Ontario.

They also analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.

«The study demonstrates a robust century - scale link between ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic basin and rainfall in the adjacent continents during the past 4,000 years,» said UTIG Director Terry Quinn, a co-author on the study.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

The paper is the first to show a clear relationship between dams and heavy rainfall, says Johannes Feddema at the University of Kansas in Lawrence.

Matching the models with stalagmites There was a much clearer correlation between less rainfall in the region and the Heinrich events, Carolin said.

The model also incorporates data on how people typically move between home, work, school, and shopping; on sexual behavior (Zika can be spread through unprotected sex); and on factors that affect mosquito populations, such as seasonal temperature swings, rainfall, and breeding sites such as caches of old tires.

Two should occur each year, between March and May, and October to December, with April the main month for rainfall.

Record - breaking rainfall in southeastern Australia between July and September, for example, was due to natural variability, one study found.

Many of these simulations show an association between forest cover and rainfall, but every model is different and makes different assumptions.

When in January rainfall was double the expected average over wide areas, many people made cautious links between such extreme weather and global climate change.

Loecke and co-author Amy Burgin, associate professor of environmental studies, said the extreme flux between drought and rainfall changes the storage of nutrients in the agricultural landscape — nitrogen used in fertilizing farms most importantly.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

There's a feedback between vegetation, dust and rainfall, Tierney said.

The reconstruction of the rainfall over 100,000 years shows a series of spikes that occurred between 40,000 and 80,000 years ago.

«In between days of rainfall there are long, dry periods — overall the perception is that production has gone down across the region.»

The team mapped rainfall between June and September 2011 and found that readings derived from cellular data tended to agree with those from the traditional combination of rain gauges and radar.

Rainfall down 40 - 80 % The Geneva - based World Meteorological Organization said last week that between February and May of this year, rainfall over Europe as a whole ranged from 40 to 80 percent of the long - term average from 1951 to 2000, and in many parts of western and central Europe it was even below 40 Rainfall down 40 - 80 % The Geneva - based World Meteorological Organization said last week that between February and May of this year, rainfall over Europe as a whole ranged from 40 to 80 percent of the long - term average from 1951 to 2000, and in many parts of western and central Europe it was even below 40 rainfall over Europe as a whole ranged from 40 to 80 percent of the long - term average from 1951 to 2000, and in many parts of western and central Europe it was even below 40 percent.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm at first landfall on August 25, stalled over Texas as a tropical storm, causing record rainfall between August 26 and 28.

It's possible that climate change has strengthened the correlation between storm surge and heavy rainfall, but further analyses will be needed to make that case, the team notes.

The researchers combined this information with water use across provinces — from both rainfall and irrigation sources — and determined how much water was transferred between provinces through food trade.

«Looking at weather and dengue incidents over longer periods, we found a similar strong link between how increased rainfall and warmer temperatures resulting from the reoccurring el Niño phenomenon are associated with elevated risks of dengue epidemics.

To explore the links between climatic warming and rainfall in drylands, scientists from the Universities of Cardiff and Bristol analysed more than 50 years of detailed rainfall data (measured every minute) from a semi-arid drainage basin in south east Arizona exhibiting an upward trend in temperatures during that period.

Brawn's team looked at the relationship between population growth rates and the length of the dry season during those 33 years, then simulated another 50 years with an average of a 10 percent change in the rainfall pattern in Panama's dry season.

Modelling studies suggest that around Llyn Brianne reductions of between 30 and 50 per cent in the acidity of rainfall will be necessary to prevent further acidification of soils and streams and only a 60 to 90 per cent reduction would allow recovery of fisheries, river invertebrates and fishing birds such as dippers.

According to the study, the state of Texas had a 1 percent chance of experiencing rainfall of Harvey's magnitude for any given year between 1981 and 2000.

Cacao is usually grown on the borders between forests and savanna, areas that are particularly vulnerable to shifts in temperature or rainfall.

«But even though one has to be aware of the links between climate conditions and sports,» he concludes, «it is unlikely rainfall, temperature or humidity will take away all the fun and the joy an event of this nature brings about.