Sentences with phrase «carried by rainfall»

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Combining these models with data on local rainfall and snowmelt, the team calculated what fraction of the water is carried to the sea by rivers, and what fraction sinks into the ground.

According to the study carried out by Yien Ling Hii using data from Singapore, higher risk of dengue cases can occur in 3 - 4 months after favourable temperature and rainfall conditions take place.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

It does, however, refer to the extreme rainfall modelling work carried out by the Met Office for the government's recent National Flood Resilience Review (NFRR).

It does, however, refer to the extreme rainfall modelling work carried out by the Met Office for the government's recent

Deep water depletion and variability of rainfall in vulnerable (nearthreshold) forests — Nepstad et al. (2007) carried out a manipulation experiment on a central Amazon forest by reducing rainfall in the wet season by 60 percent.

Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases by altering conditions — such as local temperatures, rainfall amounts, and warm season length — that affect the development and spread of disease vectors and the pathogens they carry.

[51] Changes in temperature and rainfall will make it harder to control dengue fever and other diseases carried by mosquitoes, and there is a risk that the range and spread of tropical diseases and pests will increase.