Sentences with phrase «by lack of rainfall»

Firstly remember that while the drought is caused by lack of rainfall, famine is man - made.

Drought is primarily driven by a lack of rainfall, but warmer temperatures can exacerbate drought impacts by increasing evaporation.

Dr. Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.

It is estimated that more than 62 thousand families have been affected by the lack of rainfall with over half the municipalities in the region having enacted a state of emergency.

If this is the NYT article you are thinking of http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/earth/extreme-heat-is-covering-more-of-the-earth-a-study-says.html then Hoerling apparently has not read the paper he in commenting on since «Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a lack of rainfall, with heat waves.»

Not exact matches

2016 was a year of contrasts, promising a superb vintage, characterized by uniform flowering at the origin of good pollination, substantial lack of rainfall during the summer combined with abundant sunshine and evenly - occurring veraison.

The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by lack of sunlight or lack of water?

Elders blamed recent failures of rainfall on a lack of adherence to traditional beliefs by younger generations.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

Drought always causes higher temperatures, but curiously they also reported that given the lack of rainfall the high temperatures were not as high as expected writing, «The scatter plot shows that 2012 was the driest summer in the historical record, though the temperature anomaly of +2 °C was exceeded by two prior summers — 1934 and 1936.

This comes in terms of the lack of water from glacial melt, or changes in disease vectors, or rainfall patterns, or the lodge pole pine being killed off by beetles in million - acre swaths.