Sentences with phrase «examine soil moisture»

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To study changes in soil moisture, the researchers used the Palmer drought severity index to examine average water availability and loss over the study period.

Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.

-- «The 2012 report on extreme events by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change examined the evidence for regional changes in soil moisture since 1950, and made the following assessment for western North America: «No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large variability; large drought of the 1930s dominates.»

To study changes in soil moisture, the researchers used the Palmer drought severity index to examine average water availability and loss over the study period.

The radar images provided a comprehensive picture of soil density, moisture and local structures which, when combined with the photographs taken from the aircraft, enabled the researchers to find and examine the city's characteristic temples and artificial ponds used for irrigation and water storage.