Sentences with phrase «between wet years»

Not exact matches

In years of relatively low flow, changes in weir pool levels in conjunction with environmental water use can confer ecological benefits between the river and floodplain, such as nutrient exchange and wetting of fringing vegetation.

So between 2.5 and 3 years (he was trained at 30 months), he probably wet the bed every other week.

What's more, the authors found that these relationships between LAI and surface biophysics were amplified up to five times under extreme warm - dry and cold - wet years.

Gradual downsizing of those tools, including oval hand axes, occurred from 615,000 to 499,000 years ago, a stretch characterized by frequent shifts between wet and dry conditions, the scientists say.

Officials, it turned out, had estimated the Colorado's average flow after a period of unusually wet conditions, calculating that 18 million acre - feet flowed through the river each year, and dividing up some 15 million acre - feet, or 4.8 trillion gallons of water, between the states.

The Sahel is the transition zone that lies south of the Sahara Desert, and fluctuates between very dry, desert - like conditions and wetter, more temperate conditions every year.

The sediments suggest that the Olorgesailie was a grassland - filled basin containing a lake that fluctuated in size until roughly 500,000 years ago, when the climate began to oscillate between wet and dry states.

Reconstruction of the climate 21,000 years ago at the peak of the last ice age in the western US found that the transition between the dryer zone in the north and wetter zone in the south ran diagonally from the northwest to southeast.

«Terrestrial climates around the world tend to alternate between cool, wet summers in some years and warm, dry summers in other years,» said UBC forestry PhD candidate Colin Mahony, lead author of the study.

Shimon Wdowinski, a seismologist at the University of Miami, Florida, says that he has found a strong correlation between extremely wet tropical cyclones striking Taiwan and big earthquakes that occur up to three years later.

Portrays a year in the life revealing how animals and plants cope with the stresses of life in a place that swings savagely between the drenching floods of the annual wet and the parched heat of the dry season.

, Dan Gregor (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend), Cherry Jones (American Crime, Transparent), Rashida Jones (Angie Tribeca, Parks and Recreation), Andy Kindler (Bob's Burgers, Maron), Nick Kroll (Oh Hello on Broadway, Kroll Show), John Mulaney (Oh Hello on Broadway, Saturday Night Live), musician Krist Novoselic, Henry Rollins (The Legend of Korra, Sons of Anarchy), Tracee Ellis Ross (Black - ish, Reed Between the Lines), novelist Cheryl Strayed, Tessa Thompson (Thor: Ragnarok, Annihilation, Westworld, Creed), David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later, Role Models) Brent Weinbach (Rad Lands, Another Period), Dolly Wells (Doll & Em, 45 Years), Shannon Woodward (Westworld, Raising Hope), and singer - songwriter Kurt Vile.

As a dog owner with three large dogs aged between 3 - 12 years old, I am always looking for new ways to help make sure walks goes off without a hitch and living so close to Sherwood Forest, wet and muddy dog walks are par for the course — and I wouldn't change that for the world.

Although there are pronounced wet and dry seasons as well as variations between the interior climate and the climate along the coast, Belize boasts amazing warm temperatures every month of the year.

The timing of this cycle is highly dependent on weather, and varies greatly between wet and dry years.

Its location in the Andean foothills means that Machu Picchu may receive rain at any time of year but the wet season between November and April brings the most rainfall making the stones of the ruins slippery to walk on with the possibility of mud slides.

Somewhere between 77F - 80F (24C - 28C) air and water temperatures year round, leave your wet suits at home, but bring plenty of sunscreen!

With few temperature differences between seasons Cancun has a year round tropical wet and dry climate, cooler months are from November to February and hotter humid months from March to September and hurricanes can be a threat between July and October.

Here you can kitesurf all year round, even throughout the wet season (between October and April) with occasional offshore winds.

With hurricane Arthur headlining the news as throwing a possible wet blanket on 4th of July fireworks shows along the Northeast coast and with a new record being set each passing day for the longest period between major (Category 3 or greater) hurricane landfalls anywhere in the U.S. (3,173 days and counting), we thought that now would be a good time to discuss a new paper which makes a tentative forecast as to what we can expect in terms of the number of Atlantic hurricanes in the near future (next 3 - 5 years).

A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

The climate is changing, and overall we are experiencing more consistently dry years, with wet years becoming few and far between.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

The drying trend apparently reached its peak about 5,500 to 7,500 years ago (referred to as Antev's Altithermal) and has ranged between that peak and the cold, wet conditions of the early Holocene since that time.

17 El Nino verses La Nina El Niño La Niña Trade winds weaken Warm ocean water replaces offshore cold water near South America Irregular intervals of three to seven years Wetter than average winters in NC La Niña Normal conditions between El Nino events When surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific are colder than average The southern US is usually warmer and dryer in climate

Extreme swings between wet and dry years, driven by El Niños and La Niñas, are exactly what natural climate change predicts.

Observational records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..

Composite analysis of global sea surface temperature during unusually wet and dry years also suggests a linkage between reconstructed rainfall and ENSO.

This major change in ocean circulation, along with a climate that had already been slowly cooling for millions of years, may be what led to ice accumulation most of the time — but also to climatic instability, with flips every few thousand years or so between warm - and - wet and cool - and - dry.

This down - and - up event, called the Younger Dryas, is only the most recent of dozens of similar flips between warm - and - wet to cool - and - dry, usually recurring every several thousand years.

A new study suggests that the state should expect more dramatic swings between dry and wet years as the climate warms, with potentially devastating floods becoming more likely.

Though observational data is limited on the links between climate change and dengue risk in Hawaii, future climate scenarios predict warmer temperatures and wetter summers in Hawaii over the next 25 year, which will cause an expansion of mosquito habitat and potential dengue risk areas.

The basin could experience more precipitation with climate change, or bigger swings between wet and dry years or possibly even longer, more severe «megadroughts.»

I ran an analysis of the 22 El Niño events in California since 1950 and discovered virtually no direct relationship between the phenomenon, which often lasts about a year, and a wetter than average winter season in California.

Precession alone is powerful enough to drive a 20,000 year cycle wherein the Sahara alternates between a lush, wet land with three giant interconnected lakes and the desert we see today.

However, in contrast, there has been an increase in the daily rainfall variability during July - August by five per cent, says the study.They evaluated how the characteristics of wet spells, with days of heavy rain, and dry spells have changed between two 30 - year periods, 1951 to 1980 and 1981 to 2011.

The probationary period for a wet reckless can range from between 1 to 2 years.