Sentences with phrase «during the dry season of»

Warmer water temperatures are present during the dry season of November to April, peaking at 31 °C.

Diving anywhere around Bali is generally better during the dry season of April to October.

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.

Not exact matches

And during the dry season, when the rains do not come and the grass withers away and the ground is parched, it is not uncommon to find hundreds of different animals all sharing the same watering hole.

Animals must obtain a minimum of 30 % dry - matter intake from grazing pasture during the grazing season;

We monitored the ten study streams during the dry (April & December), transition (July), and peak (October) rainfall seasons of 2013, and compared responses using t - tests.

Production ceases during the winter months of June and July as cattle dry off for the season.

On the construction of the Tamne dam, President Mahama said, construction of the project stalled during the rainy season to allow the area to dry up for continuation.

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

Dr. Afriyie Akoto said the implementation will start during the start of the 2017 dry season, which normally begins in November.

These factors include climate change and indiscriminate use of fire by agriculturists during the dry season to eliminate felled trees and clear areas for crops or pasture.

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

«Even during the dry season the average cloudiness can be on the order of 50 to 70 percent.»

«However, when you come up to one of these really dry periods, [like the drought of 2005 or 2010], then there isn't enough water to take advantage of all the light during the dry season.»

Masai giraffes, living just south of the equator, give birth during the dry season from December to March, meaning their offspring are ready to wean just as the wet season arrives and produces new foliage to browse on.

During the summer these red giants take advantage of the fog to capture water out of the air — and summer is the critical growing season for the trees, despite being California's dry season.

During the dry season, scientists have noticed a peculiar rise in the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) they suck up.

The honeydew produced by the insects is a consistent source of sugar for the ants, providing them with a source of nutrients during prolonged dry seasons when nectar from the tree is scarce.

It's not just for winter: In tropical Madagascar, the fat - tailed dwarf lemur crawls into tree - holes and shuts down for an average of seven months to deal with a dearth of food and water during the dry season.

What's more, the deuterium content was highest at the end of the Amazon's dry season, during the «greening» period when photosynthesis was strongest.

The rice loss is particularly strong during the dry season, the higher yielding of the year's two crops.

It does not appear to be just the quantity of leaves driving the higher photosynthesis during the dry season.

Another analysis focused on the patterns of gene activation during diapause, which the embryos of N. furzeri may undergo during the dry seasons.

«Our results show that increased PsbS expression allows crop plants to be more conservative with water use, which we think will help to better distribute available water resources over the duration of the growing season and keep the crop more productive during dry spells.»

It also has contributed to key insights about how animal behavior can be harnessed to improve the condition of the land, especially in regions like his native Zimbabwe with long dry seasons during which ruminants are conveyers of soil fertility and moisture.

Projected global warming will likely decrease the extent of temperate drylands by a third over the remainder of the 21st century coupled with an increase in dry deep soil conditions during agricultural growing season.

But following the Nepal earthquake — even during the dry season when soils were the most stable — there were also tens of thousands of landslides in the region, according to reconnaissance team estimates.

This photo, taken outside the town of Diakhao, Senegal in March of 2018, illustrates the conditions of the Sahel during the dry season.

The haze is caused by forest clearing in Indonesia during the annual dry season, particularly when fires are set to clear undergrowth which then spark fires in layers of peat.

Brawn's team looked at the relationship between population growth rates and the length of the dry season during those 33 years, then simulated another 50 years with an average of a 10 percent change in the rainfall pattern in Panama's dry season.

During the dry season, hundreds of piranhas cram lakes off Brazil's Araguaia River and similar waterways.

Wildfires are an annual occurrence during the dry season in Indonesia and are responsible up to 10 per cent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions each year.

Overall, the antioxidant content increased and fat content of the beans decreased during the dry season as temperatures rose and soil moisture dropped.

(There were patterns in abundance of the three species only in the dry season, probably because during the wet season lions are more evenly distributed across the land.)

«Most tropical forests are exposed to one or even two dry seasons and, during these dry periods, plants can strongly suffer from the lack of water — they grow less, wilt or even dry out.»

Instruments on the platforms will monitor changes in the concentrations of gases such carbon dioxide, which is mainly produced when vegetation is burnt during the dry season.

Conditions at the end of the rainy season are used to forecast fire activity during the dry season.

The Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX) was an international, multiplatform field campaign to measure long - range transport of air pollution from South and Southeast Asia toward the Indian Ocean during the dry monsoon season in January to March 1999.

DURING THE DRY SEASON in the Amazon last summer, a handful of robust young men emerged from the forest along the Envira River, near the Peru border.

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

During Tanzania's dry season, the Hadza people eat a lot of meat plus tubers and fruit from the baobab tree, but in the wet season they eat more honey and berries.

But during the dry season, when the fields are fallow, evapotranspiration from agricultural land was an average of 60 percent lower than from native vegetation.

For example, in years that had more than average burning during the dry season, measurements of soil moisture, evaporation and vegetation greenness — all of which help to trigger rain — decreased in the following wet season.

In less forgiving settings, family units often split up for long periods, dividing their herds into smaller groups during dry seasons, for instance, with family members scattered with subflocks on distant pockets of grazing land.

«Modeling studies have shown that alteration of the regional water cycle during the dry season could affect both the timing and stability of the rainy season,» Spera said.

It's the same story at Fogg Dam — most of our radio - tracked toads spend their time (at least during the Dry - season) close to human settlements or man - made structures.

After that, the same forests will be monitored during times of stress in the wet and dry season to learn how the VOC fingerprints change.

The use of retinol is ideal when targeting challenging skin concerns and it helps boost our cell renewal cycle, which can otherwise slow down during drier seasons.

Fall and winter are known in Ayurveda as Vata season: the excess dryness and wind in our external environment during the dry season manifests as an excess of Vata in our bodies and shows up on our skin.

Make sure to provide plenty of water during the entire growing season, especially during hot, dry weather.