Sentences with phrase «continental hydrological cycle»

Characterizing and understanding the multidecadal variations of the continental hydrological cycle is a challenging issue given the limitation of observed data sets.

Not exact matches

These shifts to wetter summers correspond with periods on enhanced continental runoff as expressed by the abundance of freshwater indicators such as the algae Pediastrum and the dinocyst taxon Bosedinia and areconsistent with enhanced hydrological cycling prior to, and during the PETM interval.The marked increase in WMMT and WMMP puts a new perspective on environ - 15 mental precursors to the injection of carbon during the PETM.

All of these simulations exhibit a strongly damped hydrological cycle relative to that of the modern climate, with less evaporation over the oceans and continental - scale drying over land.