Sentences with phrase «explained by the rainfall»

«Sure it rained a lot, but what happened here can not be explained by the rainfall alone.»

Our results suggest that productivity reduction in eastern and western Europe can be explained by rainfall deficit and extreme summer heat, respectively.

Not exact matches

They tested four hypotheses that might explain the maintenance of these three distinct giraffe species: isolation - by - distance, physical barriers to dispersal, general habitat differences resulting in habitat segregation, or regional differences in the seasonal timing of rainfall.

So apparently you're suggesting that decadal - scale precipitation patterns (more, less rainfall) and temperature changes are better explained by atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

Research recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, and explained in the video above, shows that the amount of rainfall we get here on Earth is ever so slightly influenced by the position of the moon, thanks to a phenomenon called «atmospheric tide.»

WA Regional Climate Services Manager Mr Glenn Cook explained that the high rainfall was due to an active monsoon season in the north of the state, as a result of the current La Nina and aided by warmer than normal waters off the WA north coast.

Thus, paleodata in which strong variation in monsoon rainfall have been recorded can not be explained by the bistable regime because these recordings show monsoon changes over several years, decades, or even centuries.

Lead author Dr Debbie Polson, of the University of Edinburgh's School of GeoSciences, said: «This study shows for the first time that the drying of the monsoon over the past 50 years can not be explained by natural climate variability and that human activity has played a significant role in altering the seasonal monsoon rainfall on which billions of people depend.»

Members of the exclusive Asia Business Council (ABC) will hear David Griggs, a British climate expert, explain the threats posed to the region by global warming, including potentially drastic changes to Asian temperatures and rainfall patterns in the coming decades.

Using statistical methods, the scientists compensated for the effects of the AMO on average rainfall, and thereby calculated how much of the Sahara's growth could be explained by the dryness that the cycle's negative phase produces.

The article also reported on the 22 papers published by the AMS «seeking to explain extreme global weather events from a climate perspective» of which two studied the heavy rainfall in Eastern Australia.

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.

Areas that gained suitable days because of water availability also lost days because of solar radiation, and vice versa; this could be explained by coupled dynamics between rainfall and cloud cover [3].