Sentences with phrase «by seasonal conditions»

The scale and duration of watering in 2015 - 16 was guided by seasonal conditions and natural hydrological cues.

Not exact matches

At a January investors conference, Lululemon executives suggested a host of reasons for the decline: bad weather caused by the polar vortex; poor product mix; insufficient seasonal merchandise; broader economic conditions.

Further ahead, and assuming average seasonal conditions, ABARE is forecasting the winter crop to increase by 12 per cent in 2005/06.

Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments in new markets; breaches in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel; future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments; future increases in the price of, or major changes or reduction in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors» in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In effect this meant releases from Hume Dam were triggered by dam inflows, so that river flows reflected natural seasonal conditions and mimicked what may have happened naturally.

Values will hold for all property types, not effected by adverse seasonal conditions,» said Mr McIntyre.

It includes forecasts of area, yield and production and a summary of seasonal conditions on a state by state basis.

After this process was used by the researchers to determine new normal conditions for global average temperatures, it was used again to examine record hot seasonal temperatures at a regional level.

This condition is known as Seasonal Affected Disorder (SAD) and it's dreaded by many.

Other positive health benefits reported by survey respondents include these: 3 people said: Hyperthyroid condition improved (reduced or gone off meds) 2 people said: Seasonal allergies gone or decreased 2 people said: Reduced asthma symptoms 7 people said: Arthritis symptoms / pain gone or reduced 2 people said: Migraines gone or reduced by 80 percent 2 people...

Honey is a natural product, influenced by seasonal and regional conditions.

Recently serviced by Autosport Designs, Inc., this DB7 Vantage Volante has enjoyed only seasonal use and has been serviced accordingly to remain in exceptional condition at all times.

The effect of this return to customary seasonal conditions on our utilization in these already historically slow periods was exacerbated by particularly weak demand for our services in the first half of 2010, resulting in a 27 % decrease in vessel utilization across the entire fleet for the first half of 2010 as compared to the same period of 2009.

An ear is the most probable site for any occurrence of this condition, for the reason that it contains a lot of lipids in the form of wax, a dog ear has a significant population of normally occurring bacteria and yeast and most importantly, it has been identified as the most commonly affected area by allergies of any kind, food or seasonal.

Long - term effects of warming and ocean acidification are modified by seasonal variation in species responses and environmental conditions

However, a new study by Doblas - Reyes and co-authors at the European Centre for Medium - Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)-- the «European weather centre» — suggests that by updating the greenhouse conditions with the observed annual mean values, the skill of the seasonal forecasts improve noticeably.

Throughout the same experiment, Hunsaker et al. (2000) determined that the extra 200 ppm of CO2 reduced seasonal evapotranspiration by about 1 and 4 % under conditions of low and high soil nitrogen, respectively.

Type 3 dynamic downscaling takes lateral boundary conditions from a global model prediction forced by specified real world surface boundary conditions, such as for seasonal weather predictions based on observed sea surface temperatures, but the initial observed atmospheric conditions in the global model are forgotten.

These cores were recovered from areas characterized by different sea ice conditions today, ranging from perennial sea ice in the central Arctic Ocean to seasonal sea ice conditions along the Barents Sea continental margin (Fig. 1; see Methods for more details).

This interpretation is further supported by the minimum of the total number of dinoflagellate cysts and peak concentrations of the dinoflagellate species Impagidinium pallidum (Fig. 7d), indicative of cold polar conditions and an extensive seasonal sea ice cover42.

Furthermore, the seasonal open - water conditions along the Barents Sea continental margin might have been fostered by the inflow of Atlantic Water (Fig. 5a) that was probably significantly reduced but still penetrated continuously to at least the Franz Victoria Trough west of Franz Josef Land (see Fig. 1 for location) during the last 150 ka58.

Most studies on ice predictability have used a perfect - model approach, in which a climate model is used to predict conditions simulated by that model, and have focused on seasonal to interannual predictability (e.g., Holland et al., 2011; Blanchard - Wrigglesworth et al., 2011; Chevallier and Salas - Melia, 2012).

Monthly data allow users to see seasonal patterns, such as periods of nuclear refueling outages in the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) and increased operation of peaking generators during the periods of highest electricity demand in the summer months (driven primarily by air conditioning use).

However, possible use of seasonal snow albedo feedback to evaluate snow albedo feedback under climate change conditions is of course dependent upon the realism of the correlation between the two feedbacks suggested by GCMs (Figure 8.16).

Long - term effects of warming and ocean acidification are modified by seasonal variations in species responses and environmental conditions

Before air - conditioning, American life followed seasonal cycles determined by weather.

The EMPLOYER will employ the WORKER assigned to him by the GOVERNMENT AGENT as approved by HUMAN RESOURCES AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT CANADA (HRSDC), clearance order and the WORKER will serve the EMPLOYER at the place of employment subject to the terms and conditions herein mentioned provided, however, that such period of seasonal employment be not longer than eight (8) months nor less than 240 hours in a time of six (6) weeks or less unless HRSDC has agreed that an emergency situation exists, in which case the PARTIES agree that the minimum period of employment shall be not less than a term of 160 hours.