Sentences with phrase «dry years occurring»

The probability that a negative precipitation anomaly co-occurs with a positive temperature anomaly has increased recently, with warm — dry years occurring more than twice as often in the past two decades (91 %) as in the preceding century (42 %)(Fig. 1B).

That would affect how much water is available in spring and summer, potentially increasing how often very dry years occur.

Dry years occur typically in succession over a 4 - year interval followed by a deluge in the fifth year.

Not exact matches

This study, combined with our observations over the years, indicates that the highest germination percentage of pepper seed occurs in seed harvested from early red pods that are dried for one to four months.

«Lassa fever use to occur only during dry season but now we are contending with an all year transmission of Lassa fever.

Also of major interest, the team notes, is that the sudden collapse of the nearby Guge kingdom of western Tibet (ruins shown) around 1620 C.E. — which had previously been ascribed to military conflicts — occurred near the end of the region's driest 3 decades in the past 5700 years.

Many identify the state as warm and dry; however, violent flash floods and even heavy snowstorms typically occur each year.

Sheth said that the 2010 - 2014 study, which began while she and Angert were at Colorado State University, occurred during record hot and dry years in California.

Gradual downsizing of those tools, including oval hand axes, occurred from 615,000 to 499,000 years ago, a stretch characterized by frequent shifts between wet and dry conditions, the scientists say.

Naturally occurring forest fires, especially in warm and dry years, also release methane into the air.

Geological evidence pointed to the springs being active during the driest periods of climate fluctuations that occurred around 1.8 million years ago, a critical period for hominin evolution.

According to the authors of a new study, the number of acres of land used for certified organic dry bean production has increased significantly in recent years, and a similar trend is occurring across the United States.

In a rare benefit from the ongoing drought, this summer has been so dry that the warm water temperatures are not resulting in major harmful algal blooms, such as one that occurred on Lake Erie last year.

Despite the vast resources spent each year on crop protection applications, crop damage is estimated at 37 percent due to plant pests and diseases occurring to a large extent because of loss of pesticide efficacy related to pesticide clumping, drying and run off.

Contrary to the northwest, the best visibility in the waters around Cano occurs during the dry season, though the water tends to be pretty clear year round.

The sink swallowed up roughly 0.77 gigaton of carbon per year, persisting despite a significant increase in biomass burning emissions that occurred during the dry season of 2011, fueled by the rapid growth of vegetation that year.

A warm, dry western North America occurring in combination with a cold, snowy east is not unusual, but the prevalence and persistence of this pattern in recent years have piqued the interests of climate researchers.

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.

But dry years were twice as likely to trigger a severe drought if they occurred during warm years instead of cold years, according to the study, published today (March 2) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The most definitive 30 - year P trends occur along the northern Russian border and adjacent to Hudson's Bay (> 75 % change of a wetter future), likely in response to diminished sea ice cover and resulting increase in atmospheric moisture, and in some areas of northern Africa and the Middle East (< 35 % chance of wetting, equivalent to > 65 % chance of drying; Fig. 8b).

It could even go as low as 50 % FIRST the synchronized lunar and planet cycles will both be descending down to the driest part of their cycles in 2019/20 (this only occurs once every 297 years in Australia) SECOND Antarctic sea ice extent has been trending up to now be at record high levels for the last 34 years.

Identifies changes in occurrence of atmospheric circulation patterns by measuring the similarity of the cool - season atmospheric configuration that occurred in each year of the 1949 — 2015 period with the configuration that occurred during each of the five driest, wettest, warmest, and coolest years

During 1995 — 2014, 6 of the 8 moderately dry years produced 1 - SD drought (Fig. 1A), with all 6 occurring in years in which the precipitation anomaly exceeded — 0.5 SD and the temperature anomaly exceeded 0.5 SD (Fig. 1C).

Most 1 - SD drought years have occurred when conditions were both dry (precipitation anomaly < 0) and warm (temperature anomaly > 0), including 15 of 20 1 - SD drought years during 1896 — 2014 (Fig. 2A and Fig.

«We've seen the effects of record heat on snow and soil moisture this year in California, and we know from this new research that climate change is increasing the probability of those warm and dry conditions occurring together.»

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), even if a normal amount of rainfall occurred this year, it could not have offset the drying effect of the record - breaking heat.

«During El Nino years, which occur in the Pacific Ocean or Basin, Southeast Asia gets warmer and drier.

For example, of the two extreme floods that hit Thailand in 2011, the first one occurred early in the year during the dry season.