Sentences with phrase «dependent on precipitation»

This means that precipitation effects are dependent on precipitation frequency as well as annual amount.

This could be significantly more complicated if desired — the pseudo-proxy could be dependent on precipitation as well, or on more sophisticated climate metrics (such as growing degree days for tree rings for instance).

At the same time, however, for the continent as a whole, the agriculture sector, which is highly dependent on precipitation, is estimated to account for approximately 60 % of total employment, indicating its crucial role in livelihoods and food security derived through food access through purchase (Slingo et al., 2005).

Not exact matches

In fact, temperature change offered a better prediction of impending conflict in the 40 countries surveyed than even changes in rainfall, despite the fact that agriculture in this region is largely dependent on such precipitation.

This process of smoothing the original water isotope variations from precipitation is dependent on the temperature, as the water molecules in vapour form are more mobile at warmer temperatures.

It is based on the misconception that the factor preferring isotopes is at the «precipitation / freeze» end of the process when it is actually at the evaporation end, i.e. not dependent on local conditions on the ice sheet.

Simulation of extreme precipitation is dependent on resolution, parametrization and the thresholds chosen.

This ratio is dependent only on temperature rise, which reduces snowpack at all elevations for a given amount of precipitation.

The regional nature of both the ablation - temperature and accumulation - Diablo Dam precipitation relationships indicates that neither is particularly dependent on microclimates.

The regional nature of accumulation - Diablo Dam precipitation relationships indicates that neither is particularly dependent on microclimates.

In principal — transition to open cell — low albedo — cloud is dependent on the amount of precipitation and therefore on the concentration of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).

Moreover, according to the current study, the future development of precipitation in the Sahel region is crucially dependent on the warming of the Mediterranean.

Precipitation is much more dependent on smaller - scale circulation and topography.