Sentences with phrase «during drought years»

During the drought years of 2012 — 2015, mean monthly water temperatures in the freshwater regions of the Delta from April to July were on average higher than between 1995 and 2011 (two - factor ANOVA, Bonferroni corrected P < 0.01), demonstrating the effects of drought on surface water temperatures (Fig. 1B).

A lack of rainfall during drought years causes large sections of the lush canopy to dry out and die.

«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.

During drought years, these small fires can quickly spread to large areas of the rainforest.

A study published this year by Bradley Udall, senior water and climate research scientist with the Colorado Water Institute at Colorado State University, and Jonathan Overpeck, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences at the University of Arizona, found that during the drought years of 2000 - 2014, the river surrendered a third of its flow because of higher temperatures in the upper basin.

«A real impact on people» The scientists say their calculations are preliminary and don't account for emissions from forest fires, to which the forest is more vulnerable during drought years, and drought - driven changes in soil decomposition.

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.

The analysis illustrates that wildfires occur annually, that is, also in non-drought years, but that amplification of wildfires occurs during drought years.

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.

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.

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.

There were 49 reported during another drought year in 1988.

«Four times more adult trees were killed by fire during a drought year, which means that there was also more carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, more tree species loss and a greater likelihood of grasses invading the forest.»

Not exact matches

Two years of extreme drought, during which farmers relied almost completely on groundwater, have brought the seriousness of the problem home.

Here's what Lake Oroville, the body of water contained by the tallest dam in the US, looked like in August 2015, during the height of California's raging five - year drought:

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

The farming couple are happy to have survived the last year which they said was much worse than they have experienced before, even during drought.

This has helped California vineyards continue to produce during the four - year drought.

Jody has over 25 years of experience in the water sector where she has been responsible for driving a range of initiatives including state water reforms under the National Water initiative, driving the momentum and integration of The Living Murray, delivery of environmental water with and on behalf of Basin states, development and implementation of a plan to avoid widespread acidification to the lower lakes of the Murray system during the Millennium drought and identification of the sustainable level of take to be embodied in the Murray - Darling Basin Plan.

Today it's just the opposite, we were the only estate to continue plucking this year during the drought.

I am proud of even during our 9 years of trophy drought.

Many of us felt, on top of losing all our best players year after year during that period, not to mention a never ending trophy drought, we had little time to put faith into a player testing the waters all over again.

Curt Schilling famously pitched through an ankle injury (that turned into a bloody sock) during Game 6 of the ALCS to beat the New York Yankees and eventually break the Red Sox 86 - year Championship drought.

If not, well I would still applaud him for what he accomplished during the years financial drought (top 4 finish with shoe string budget).

The burden from 13 years of a title drought must surely be still weighing heavy on the players» shoulders and can not be removed, simply, by loosening the purse strings again or changing the manager, as rivals Liverpool have found out during the past 30 years.

Arsenal even sold a host of star players like Thierry Henry, Cesc Fabregas and Robin van Persie during the early years of their title drought.

If one reads the title of this piece, it would not be too far fetched to assume that readers might think they have entered an Arsenal / Chelsea fans blog site by accident, as this is a topic which has been a bug bear for Arsenal fans during their trophy drought ridden years.

For farmers and ranchers in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula during a six - year drought, the farther away they lived from urban areas, the more likely they were to have to make changes to cope with the dwindling supply of water, according to a Portland State University study.

Some, particularly in Texas last year during a crushingly severe drought, have even liquidated the whole ranch.

(Two years ago, grain shortages during a drought led to riots in this part of modern - day Syria.)

ProPublica's «Killing the Colorado» series examines a 139 - year - old water law that pushes ranchers to use as much water as they possibly can, even during a drought

But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.

Crops like almonds can not be left fallow during dry years without jeopardizing the trees, which during droughts require extensive irrigation in the California Central Valley.

They found that during the 23 - year drought, relationships between many groups grew stronger, as people turned to their neighbors for support and resources, such as food and information.

The report, commissioned by the charity Oxfam, tracks the effects on four countries: Russia which experienced a heatwave in 2010; flood - hit Pakistan the same year; East Africa during the drought of 2010 - 2011; and the Philippines after Typhoon Haiyan in 2013.

The researchers were not to know that during the year of their study there would be a severe drought, which led to the death of the study animals.

But the damage suffered during drought sets in motion a decline that can kill trees years later.

During a briefing for the California Department of Food & Agriculture, scientists from the University of California, Davis, told officials that based on their preliminary research and modeling, the drought is resulting in a harder economic pinch this year than it was in 2014.

The glaciers» importance only grows during drought, which climate scientists expect to be more frequent and severe in coming years.

Number 189 is just one of the more than 100 million trees researchers estimate died during California's five - year drought, which ended this spring.

OU researchers combined the surface water area data with the land water storage data from NASA's Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment during 2002 to 2016 to investigate the data dynamics in severe drought and pluvial years.

For example, during the 2015 drought, fire incidence was 36 % higher compared to the average for the previous 12 years, the study finds.

Plant drought - tolerant species in years with strong El Niño forecasts, particularly during Pacific Decadal Oscillation warm phase; plant trees that require sufficient water during establishment in La Niña years and during Pacific Decadal Oscillation cool phases Focus planting more in spring as fall planting becomes more difficult with reduced soil moisture and test different planting timings as springs shift earlier

Tree growth on average was 9 percent slower than normal during the first year following a drought and 5 percent slower in the second year.

The 2002 drought came after several years of good rainfall (averaged across the country), rather than during an extended period of low rainfall such as occurred in the 1940s.

For children in low - income communities, summer is more likely an educational drought, a period when not only are they not learning anything new, they are actually slipping backward and leaving behind knowledge they gained during the school year.

Summer for such children can be an educational drought, a period when they are not learning anything new and often slipping backward, leaving behind knowledge they gained during the school year.

Nonetheless, the advantage of the mindful bucket plan is that the unused cash would be the primary source of the regular spending during most of such a 7 - year drought.

Adams began these paintings during the sixth year of a long Southern California drought and completed them shortly after the first rains of winter — thus petrichor.

It seeks to commemorate the 300 million trees that perished during the drought and to instigate a larger conversation about the water shortage Texas is facing in upcoming years.