Sentences with phrase «dry regions»

For more than a decade, observational and numerical modeling studies have predicted that anthropogenic emissions would cause warming that could change the water cycle and expand dry regions.

In tropical and dry regions increases of just 1 to 2 °C are expected to lead to falls in production.

These plants are found growing in many dry regions in the world.

They found that climate models so far have underestimated the global trends in drying regions.

One of its aspects is soil salination, which affects in particular dry regions of Earth, where farmers are forced to irrigate their fields heavily.

A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

Paradoxically, climate change is projected to bring both more heavy rainstorms and more droughts, as dry regions get drier and wet areas get wetter, overall.

Unlike rice and wheat that require many inputs in terms of soil fertility and water, millets grow well in dry regions as rainfed crops.

Large positive values of P * — E * indicate anomalously wet regions such as the Asian monsoon regions, the Pacific ITCZ, and the Northern Hemisphere storm tracks; large negative values of P * — E * indicate anomalously dry regions such as the subtropical lows, the Mediterranean, and the Boreal forests (Fig. 1).

Part Six — Nonlinearity and Dry Atmospheres — demonstrating that different distributions of water vapor yet with the same mean can result in different radiation to space, and how this is important for drier regions like the sub-tropics

While wild cats in warm climates may go for the occasional refreshing dip to cool off, most domestic cats descend from felines that lived in dry regions so swimming simply wasn't necessary for survival.

Wet regions are generally projected to become wetter while dry regions become drier.

For example, it warms and dries some regions while cooling and moistening others.

The Gobi - Altai mountain range in western Mongolia is in a very dry region but ice can accumulate on mountaintops, such as Sutai Mountain, the tallest peak in the range.

The counter-current (reversal to north - to - south flow) usually would appear in concert with rains in otherwise dry regions.

The migration of these so - called «jet streams» has widened the planet's tropical belt and could expand dry regions around the world in coming decades, a new study reports.

The Continental Divide, which has a predominantly north - south alignment in Montana, effectively splits the state into climatically distinct western wet and eastern dry regions with respect to moisture from eastward - flowing Pacific Maritime air.

The projected impacts of a warming atmosphere and oceans on the Earth's hydrological cycle — dry regions likely becoming drier, while wet ones become more wet — will likely exacerbate this already dire situation.

Among meerkats — mongooses that inhabit dry regions of southern Africa — raising the kids is a group effort.

Those patterns matched three rather dire climate model predictions: that storm tracks — the paths along which cyclones travel in the Northern and Southern hemispheres — would shift poleward; that subtropical dry regions would expand, and that the tops of the highest clouds would get even higher.

Defining an extreme El Niño as one with a massive reorganisation of rainfall, where the usually dry regions in South America experience a tenfold increase in rain, they found that climate models do agree after all.

«Rules of thumb for climate change turned upside down: Wet and dry regions recalculated.»

But near the end of March, in northern Chile, unusually heavy rainfall impacted the extremely dry regions of Atacama and Antofagasta.

The resulting mapped index showed drier regions in the East Cascades and Blue Mountains becoming more vulnerable to mortality under recent climate conditions.

The rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, and a British - built lander called Beagle 2 will take surface samples from dry regions nearer the equator of the planet and perform similar analyses to reveal details of the planet's geological past.

Polyester may get electrically charged in cold dry regions.

Namaqualand is dry, flat but so biodiverse that it rivals any other dry region in the world.

I've intersected a few times with Daniel Hillel, a pioneering agricultural innovator from Israel, and each time I've come away with new insights, often about subjects far broader than the efficient irrigation methods he devised and refined, which have helped dry regions around the world feed themselves.

As the earth warms, we expect to see currently wet regions receiving more rainfall, and dry regions receiving less, although there will be exceptions,» Stocker said.

That would have serious consequences, including sea level rises, heatwaves and changes to rainfall meaning dry regions get less and already wet areas receive more.

Especially in the tropical oceans, there are large regions where zonally anomalous wet regions get drier and zonally anomalous dry regions get wetter.

As a response [and as consequence of an increase in the general circulation] on average dry regions would get drier, and wet regions would become wetter.

Finally, choose a policy that covers you for disasters that your home is actually at risk of; if you live in a fairly dry region of Rajasthan, the risk of flooding is rather obscure and only adds to your premiums without providing any actual benefit.

Ponderosa pines typically live in drier regions more susceptible to drought conditions.

Overhead misters are generally used in drier regions such as Las Vegas or Phoenix).

Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted

also a very dry region?

The counter-current (reversal to north - to - south flow) usually would appear in concert with rains in otherwise dry regions.

Finds that if you assume lower - tropospheric relative humidity and the flow of moisture transport is unchanged, the transport of moisture toward the pole and the pattern of evaporation minus precipitation (E - P) increases proportionally to the lower - tropospheric vapor — it follows that wet regions get wetter and dry regions get drier

Species: Kladothrips intermedius Habitat: dry regions of Australia, lurking inside acacia trees