Sentences with phrase «during years of drought»

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

Organic systems perform especially well during years of drought.

Research into how the Boreal forest responds to drought has shown that the most significant die back / mortality was not observed during the year of the drought but in subsequent years.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

«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.

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

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.

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.

The 2 % of fires that escape containment do so during extreme weather conditions — drought, high winds, high temperatures that overwhelm fire suppression forces and that are responsible for 97 % of the burn acres each year — they simply can not and should not be fought under extreme conditions as its not only inappropriate ecologically its not fiscally responsible and risky.

Finally, incorrectly scale it up to 40 percent to adjust for the El Nino drought year and the caveat that our estimate is «even less [than half] during years of severe drought».

Overall, we find that present estimates of annual deforestation for Brazilian Amazonia capture less than half of the forest area that is impoverished each year, and even less during; years of severe drought.

For instance, the peak years of the Texas drought in the 1950's took place when there was a period of strong La Nina, much like the current drought started last year during another strong La Nina.

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).

Impacts of California's Five - Year (2012 - 2016) Drought on Hydroelectricity Generation — This comprehensive assessment of the costs to California of lost hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generatYear (2012 - 2016) Drought on Hydroelectricity Generation — This comprehensive assessment of the costs to California of lost hydroelectricity during the five - year California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generatyear California drought (from October 2011 to the end of September 2016; the official California «water year» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generatyear» runs from October 1 to September 30) reveals an increase in electricity costs of approximately $ 2.45 billion, as well as a 10 percent increase in the release of carbon dioxide from California power plants due to the additional combustion of fossil fuels for electricity generation.

The drought that parched much of the nation during the past year didn't just stunt crops — it also stunted the annual yield of tornadoes.

During the Dust Bowl years 20 % to 35 % of the USA and Mexico were in extreme drought.

Japan's weather bureau said on Wednesday that an El Niño weather pattern, which can trigger drought in some parts of the world while causing flooding in others, had emerged during the summer for the first time in five years and was likely to continue into winter....

Climatologist and lead author Colin Kelley notes in an article he cowrote for the International Peace Institute, «three of the four most severe multiyear droughts in Syria's observed record occurred during the last 30 years, when the rate of global carbon emissions has seen its largest increase.»

The present drought is now in its fourth year, and is one of the longest consecutive periods during which conditions are severely dry and severely warm.

So imagine everyone's surprise when the state, which was in a drought for the last five years, saw weeks of precipitation and even some flooding during the winter months.

The first rain gauges in the Sahel date from 1898 and they reveal that a major drought, accompanied by large - scale famine, in the 1910s, followed by wet conditions during the 1920s and 1930s reaching a peak with the very wet year of 1936.

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.

«First and foremost, we found that corn and soybean yields were the same across the three systems,» said Pimentel, who noted that although organic corn yields were about one - third lower during the first four years of the study, over time the organic systems produced higher yields, especially under drought conditions.

Actually, a warmer world means higher levels of humidity, less drought and a shrinking of deserts, as in the Sahara circa 4,000 - 6,000 years ago during the era known as the climatic optimum when temperatures averaged some 2 degrees higher than today's.

During this year alone studies have warned that climate change could result in the demise of coral reefs, the shutdown of the Gulf stream and related currents, melting Arctic ice and glaciers, emerging diseases, bitter winters and drought, changes in vegetation, stronger storms and hurricanes, and mass extinction.

Among the forces shrinking China's grain harvest are severe drought in northern China during the last two years, spreading irrigation - water shortages as aquifers are depleted and as water is diverted to cities, and a lowering of support prices.

They suggest that during previous warm periods — one about 120,000 years ago and another about 10,000 years ago — the Middle East saw severe drought, with rainfall decreasing to at least half of what it typically is today, and at its worst drying up by 80 percent, Columbia University explained in a statement.

In this briefing, scientists will discuss how the City of San Francisco's Hetch Hetchy operation used the data to optimize reservoir filling and hydroelectric generation at its O'Shaughnessy Dam this year during California's severe drought.

In addition, the evolution of change in drought amplitude clearly shows greatest variance during the LIA, with roughly half (53 %) of years for which PDSI's mean running variance stays within the highest 10th percentile (Fig 4B).