Sentences with phrase «drought years»

The decrease in drought years has also been a blessing to the farmers.

Oh and he has also been a football manager who maybe just maybe will end the trophy drought this year.

Arsenal broke their title drought this year and fans thought that they will build from that success.

In drought years, farmers generally increase slaughter rates rather than incur the high costs of retaining stock.

Number of fires during drought years (2005, 2010, 2015) are shown in bold.

Following the two consecutive drought years of 2008 and 2009 in Yatir forest, soil water availability decreased (Figure 1).

Circles show the years in which the PMDI exhibited a negative anomaly exceeding — 1.0 SDs, which are referred to as 1 - SD drought years in the text.

This conspicuous feature does bear some resemblance to the Ridiculously Resilient Ridge which plagued California in recent drought years, though clearly its position this winter was far enough west to have vastly different effects in the Golden State.

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

More birds used the sacred forests and their edges during 2010, a severe drought year in Yunnan, suggesting sacred forests serve as refuges during extreme weather years.

ALBANY - With this year being one of the worst drought years in recorded history for Western New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo has directed the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to issue a heightened Drought Warning for the... [Read more...]

He believes that if climate change causes more drought years in Tanzania, the result will be more elderly women executed there and in other poor countries that still commonly attack supposed witches.

In drought years disaster ensued.

this is a problem as many Arsenal fans have become so perhaps as a result of Invincibles etc and been drought years since then

The area of wildfires in Borneo during drought years turns out to be ten times larger than during non-drought years, an international research team reports in Nature Climate Change of this week.

The people of East Africa once again face a devastating drought this year: Crops wither and fail from Kenya to Ethiopia, livestock drop dead and famine spreads.

After several record - breaking drought years, the Amazon is approaching a tipping point when its «rain machine» may malfunction, putting South American agriculture in peril.

But a lack of water in drought years kills some trees that normally absorb CO2, sends additional CO2 into the atmosphere as those trees rot, and temporarily lessens surviving trees» CO2 uptake.

The figure below shows the annual fire counts of each year of the study (red bars and numbers), with bold text signifying drought years (2005, 2010 and 2015).

Over the course of the study period, emissions from wildfires in drought years alone totalled more than 1bn tonnes, Aragão says.

Much of the northern half of South America also had elevated November temperatures, particularly parts of Brazil, which has been suffering from an intense drought this year.

Precipitation is highly variable from year to year, with wet years alternating with drought years.

Exactly... xbox ppl are acting like 2018 is already shaping up to be better year than 2017 when they forget all these games were meant for last years drought year...

Says Leslie, «We're going to provide agriculture with a tool to grow crops in drought years when there is limited access to run - off and surface water.»

Conversely, we found evidence for increasing percentage area affected by extreme droughts in Eurasia (+0.57 % per decade; P < 0.05) and occurrence rates of extreme drought years in Eurasian taiga (centered principally on the Okhotsk — Manchurian taiga, P = 0.07).

The Future of the World's Groundwater Op - Ed by Peter Gleick 3.17.16 - As California grinds into what is likely to be a fifth drought year, awareness of the importance — and poor management — of California's groundwater... Read more.

During years of plenty, they expanded in width far more quickly than during unfavourable drought years.

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

«But it's still a very serious drought year, one of the driest on record,» he said.

This increase in the occurrence of 1 - SD drought years has taken place without a substantial change in the probability of negative precipitation anomalies (53 % in 1896 — 2014 and 55 % in 1995 — 2014)(Figs. 1B and 2 A and B).

The restricted access to watering holes and arable land have made the Maasai more vulnerable to famine, particularly in recent drought years.

2011 was a severe drought year in the southern plains, and the dryness really became entrenched early in the year.

«What is particularly compelling to me is the observed decoupling of fire and deforestation; they used to go hand in hand as fire was the cheapest tool in the deforestation process, but in recent years fires are observed more outside the deforestation regions, especially during drought years.

Frequency of very large fire extents (> 10,000 ha) is significantly higher in drought years.

The fires, which took place during a drought year and in the hillsides above the East San Francisco Bay city, killed 25 people and destroyed 2,843 homes and more than 430 apartments.

The main findings were that there was an increased abundance and species richness of native fish compared to drought years (2005 - 2009) and Commonwealth environmental water contributed to increased base flows in the river channel, increasing hydraulic diversity for native fish.

Campaspe Mayor Leigh Wilson said government - funded rate relief was effective during drought years a decade ago, and could be a big help once again.

I assure you I have seen the entirety of arsenal's drought years.

In the entirety of Arsenal's drought years, we were not repeating the same thing, year in year out, for 12 consecutive years.

When you add the drought years it becomes even bleaker.

«As Christians we should keep praying, even pastors have been saying that we should pray hard otherwise the drought this year will be severe but I don't want it to look as if we don't know what we are doing at the ministry,» he said.

Kermit Bossard, of the Spencer Van Etten Food Cupboard, said because of the drought this year, it was hard to get food donations.