Sentences with phrase «dry vegetation conditions»

Between the heat and the dry vegetation conditions, conditions are ripe for wildfires, which have broken out in multiple states, and Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned yesterday that global warming will mean even more extreme weather events.

Not exact matches

After the middle Miocene, global climate change brought colder and drier conditions to New Zealand, with significant changes to vegetation and environments.

A shift to drier conditions during MIS 5a is indicated by a slight increase in C4 Chloridoid grasses coupled with a 2 % shift in δ13C values, however, the vegetation is never dominated by C4 flora.

For example, with changes in temperature and precipitation, ecosystems within Montana may shift to drier conditions resulting in changes to vegetation types.

Warmer, drier climate phases can particularly increase fire risk when they follow cooler, wetter conditions that increase fire fuel availability via increased vegetation growth and reduced fire activity (Heyerdahl et al. 2008).

Drier desert conditions with few clouds and little vegetation creates a microclimate that heats up much more quickly than the other stations.

The change happens as more vegetation grows in the warming Arctic, and forests struggle to survive against fire and insect infestations in warmer and drier conditions.

Drought and extreme heat dried vegetation and peat bogs, creating dangerous fire conditions.

Drier conditions resulting from suppressed rainfall can induce more dust and smoke due to the burning of drier vegetation (Ramanathan et al., 2001), thus affecting both regional and global hydrological cycles (Wang, 2Drier conditions resulting from suppressed rainfall can induce more dust and smoke due to the burning of drier vegetation (Ramanathan et al., 2001), thus affecting both regional and global hydrological cycles (Wang, 2drier vegetation (Ramanathan et al., 2001), thus affecting both regional and global hydrological cycles (Wang, 2004).

The hotter and drier conditions were a recipe for more wildfires — with lightning strikes igniting more easily in drier soils and vegetation, and higher temperatures spreading the flames.

In these cases, the prevailing dry conditions set the stage for the heat since the land is dried out, the vegetation is wilted, and all of the heat from the sun goes into raising temperatures, whereas ordinarily, in the process of evaporative cooling, surface water or wetness acts as an evaporative cooler (swamp cooler) of sorts.