Sentences with phrase «followed by precipitation»

Methane hydrates are believed to form by migration of gas from deep along geological faults, followed by precipitation or crystallization, on contact of the rising gas stream with cold sea water.

Not exact matches

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

For tissue samples, lung or liver tissue was homogenized in a 15 mL Eppendorf tube using a disposable microtube pestle (Eppendorf, San Diego, CA) and scalpel, and RNA extraction was then performed using TRIzol LS (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA), followed by isopropanol precipitation and two washes in 70 % ethanol.

The most common type of precipitation Punta Cana experiences in October is thunderstorms, followed by light rain and then moderate rain.

The wettest month in the dry season is January, when an average of 49 mm of rain falls over the course of five wet days, followed by December which sees 36 mm of precipitation falling over five wet days.

For example, [Kruss 1983] has this to say about the Lewis glacier on Mt. Kenya: «A decrease in the annual precipitation on the order of 150 mm in the last quarter of the 19th century, followed by a secular air temperature rise of a few tenths of a degree centigrade during the first half of the 20th century, together with associated albedo and cloudiness variation, constitute the most likely cause of the Lewis Glacier wastage during the last 100 years.»

But changes in precipitation in the region — brought about by a combination of deforestation and warmer temperatures — are making things difficult to follow their traditional ways.

Our study has not been followed up by experts in the observational community, and even if there is no Iris it would be interesting to know what is the sea surface temperature dependence of the precipitation efficiency in tropical clouds.

Because the model only describes the rainy season and does not capture the annual monsoon cycle, abrupt transitions in the bistable regime can only be interpreted intraseasonally, e.g., a month of heavy rain followed by a month of extraordinarily weak precipitation.

You'll have drought followed by freak precipitation events because of the increased condensation that is linked to warmer temperatures.

«Even though California historically has periods of dry and wet years, there isn't an analog for climate extremes like the ones we've observed in recent years, such as those record - breaking prolonged periods of drought following by periods of intense precipitation pulses that cause flooding,» Woodburn said.

As researchers documented in this graph, the region had experienced increasing precipitation during the Little Ice Age, followed by a sharp drying trend that began in the late 1700s, which triggered Kilimanjaro's retreat long before CO2 ever reached significant concentrations.

Leaf area index, which is also enhanced by increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide, was the second most important factor, contributing an additional 21.8 percent, followed by climate change (precipitation and air temperature together) and the fraction of photosynthetically active radiation, which accounted for the remaining 18.3 and 14.6 percent increase in NPP, respectively.

The first kind of precipitation whiplash is from year to year, meaning that we'll see more extraordinarily dry years followed by incredibly wet years — in the way California's five - year drought ended in 2017 in one of the wettest winters on record.

[ISPM 2.2 a] This is followed by a few examples of inconsistent regional trends, as well as a statement concerning a lack of trend in overall total precipitation.

In our simulations, when precipitation fell below average, the trees quickly shed foliage to adapt to the drier conditions, and tree vigor was negatively affected by the sudden drop in leaf area as indicated by the decrease in the following year's GE (ratio of change in the change in LAI to stem diameter).

According to Neilson, the latest models suggest that parts of the US are experiencing longer - term precipitation patterns, with less year - to - year variability but several wet years in a row followed by several years that are drier than normal.

Volatile precipitation patterns, with heavy rains followed by drought, can lead to ideal conditions for wildfires in some states.

Some studies, such as the following, even showed that flows into some basins are mostly driven by precipitation:

Anna Michalak's team combined sampling and satellite - based observations of Lake Erie with computer simulations and determined that the 2011 record - breaking algal bloom in the lake was triggered by long - term agricultural practices coupled with extreme precipitation, followed by weak lake circulation and warm temperatures.

That looks very close to what Arindam Samanta writes here in the comments: The press release accompanying the GRL article disputed the following IPCC AR4 (2007) claim — «Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation -LSB-...] It is more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems -LSB-...] such as tropical savannas.»