Sentences with phrase «deep droughts in»

Scientists also are studying whether climate change could mean more such deep droughts in the future and whether it made the current one worse.

The most obvious difference between this year and that event, clearly visible in the animation, is the «blob» of warm water off the west coast of North America, a symptom of the relentless high pressure pattern that has kept the West hot and dry over much of the last few years and led to the deep drought in California.

There's also historic warm temperatures in Alaska, and the deepest drought in decades across the west...

Not exact matches

Experts thought 2016 would bring relief, but here we are, six years deep in the drought...

In retrospect agriculture in Australia was always going to be challenging and problematic, given the country's relative lack of good, deep soils, together with its harsh climate and propensity for drought and floodIn retrospect agriculture in Australia was always going to be challenging and problematic, given the country's relative lack of good, deep soils, together with its harsh climate and propensity for drought and floodin Australia was always going to be challenging and problematic, given the country's relative lack of good, deep soils, together with its harsh climate and propensity for drought and floods.

Kinda makes sense though, the only reason people are asking for another CDM is because we all fear the possibility of injury to coquelin and know flamini is usless, beilick is inexperienced so it begs the question what happens if an injury where to occur, but wîth how many midfielders we have in the squad i think it could allow us to change a tactical approach and potentially experiment with people like Ramsey and Wishere potentially playing a deeper role??? But the striker is a must as i mentioned earlier Giroud went 8 games without scoring a goal and none of the other strikers stepped up to the plate, we cant have a drought of goals when your the quest for titles...

It was really nice to end the trophy drought but I feel like this was just dust in our eyes that covers a problem that runs deeper.

It turns out that the steady dripping of water deep underground can reveal a surprising amount of information about the constantly changing cycles of heat and cold, precipitation and drought in the turbulent atmosphere above.

Specifically, these results predict a loss of 15 to 30 per cent of temperate grasslands by the end of the century with a substantial increase in deep soil drought conditions.

Sustained drought and insatiable upstream water demand have drained Lake Mead to the point that experts are predicting it may soon be shallow enough to be in deep trouble.

The scientists concluded that substrate depth was the most significant factor that improved growth and drought resistance of Manilagrass; the deeper substrate resulted in improved drought tolerance when compared with the shallow substrate.

April 10, 2017 • While the deep snowpack in California's mountains is easing drought concerns, there are still people in the state's rural Central Valley who don't have water running from their taps.

The 1929 crash and the Great Depression, together with the drought in the mid-thirties had a deep impact on the farmers» lives.

They insist on putting a high pressure pipeline through the Nebraska Sand Hills, buried only 4 feet deep, in an area that is subject to blowouts, especially during droughts.

With 90 percent of New Mexico currently in extreme or exceptional drought, the harshest categories in the U.S. Drought Monitor, farmers are forced to go to extremes for water, including paying up to $ 45,000 to drill a well «down as much as 91 meters (300 feet), nearly five times deeper than before the drought.»

The groundwater table in the Central Valley has been declining to such a degree that it requires a deeper understanding of the temporal dynamics of drought as well as their dependence on regional climate variability and change.

It also shows that although floods and storm surges pose major threats, droughts are «misery in slow motion,» with costlier impacts that run deeper and longer than previously believed.

By the way, here is the Palmer Drought Severity Index for California in an historical perspective, which shows the recent drought was not as deep as the one in 1898.

Allow me to drill down deeper in the definition of drought.

Reconstructions of California climate suggest that meteorological droughts lasting multiple decades are not uncommon over the past 1000 years, while there is evidence that dry periods of even longer duration occurred in California's deeper geological past.

They are being battered by stronger storms, more destructive floods, deeper and longer droughts and disruptive switches in the seasonal timing of rain.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for deep cuts in carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.

In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed, to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

* Water diverted by Turkey * No significant global trends in drought * Deep discontent with the Syrian regime * Previous droughts did not lead to conflict * Other countries experiencing the drought did not descend to conflict * The humanitarian crisis existed before the drought

There is also an increased upwelling of deep cold ocean waters and more intense uprising of surface air near South America, resulting in increasing numbers of drought occurrences, although fishermen reap benefits from the more nutrient - filled eastern Pacific waters.

«It is somewhat embarrassing for me to admit this, but part of the problem is that a small minority of my [scientist] colleagues, people who should know better, are feeding the extreme - weather / climate hype in the mistaken belief that by doing so they can encourage people to do the right thing — lessen their carbon footprint,» wrote Mass in a blog post, which derided attempts to connect the recent frequency of extreme weather events — superstorms, deep droughts, historically bad winters, etc. — to manmade climate change.

Biochar and hugelkultur, planting deep - rooting trees in windbreaks, terracing, discouraging planting of shallow - rooting species, dredging, turning the watershed from canal to sponge, can produce such buffers, and they are preferrable in any event as they are more productive uses of land and create drought - tolerance.

Tree rings do not accumulate when the tree dies due to drought, or after shifts in timing of first / last frost, or if bark beetle infestations surge, due to milder deep frost in winter (as is absolutely true across millions of evergreen forest acreage in the US West and Alaska).

Deep into the California drought, possibly the worst in 1200 years, water from a property in Los Angeles flows down a residential street.

There's the deep structural problems implied by such things as higher incidence of major drought and, perversely, major flooding and storms in the same regions.

Global climate change scenarios predict that Canada will experience deeper and longer droughts in the future, interspersed with floods.

Here in the southwest we are heading deeper into drought and looking at the potential of another hot, dry summer.