Sentences with phrase «for aridity»

Or, cutting to the chase, wouldn't the better way to decide whose to «blame» for this aridity be to compare what's in the factums with what's in the reasons?

The inversion acts as a barrier to vertical convection and is largely responsible for the aridity and high frequency of fog found along the west coasts of the subtropical continents, especially in summer.

Consider this in the context of Mr. Romm's closely related prediction, also based on a blog citation of another single study using climate simulation models, for aridity impacts for the U.S.:

In a region best known for its aridity and less - than - optimal soils, their crop yields are impressive.

Tim Flannery, director of the South Australian Museum in Adelaide, had never given much thought to dry dirt, but while he was researching «Lush Life,» an article on Australian flowers (page 78), he gained a new appreciation for aridity.

Not exact matches

Whether it be «violent flashfloods to stark aridity» or «the bitter cold of the mountains to the blazing heat of the deserts,» one thing is certain: Arizona seems to earn its title of «one of the world's best natural laboratories for weather.»

A brief return to aridity around 8,000 years ago set the stage for cattle herders to spread across North Africa, researchers suspect.

This timeframe is particularly relevant for the evolution of past climate as it is a period of intense cooling coupled with increased aridity at a global scale.

«It is not because the aardvark's body can't take the heat, but that the termites and ants that they rely on — not just for food but also for water — can't take the heat and aridity of changing climates,» says Rey.

There is no evidence for enhanced aridity in the northern Neotropics.

According to one study that looked at eight fuel aridity metrics in the Western U.S. and modeled climate change's effects on them, human - caused climate change accounted for about 55 percent of the observed increases in fuel aridity between 1979 and 2015 (Figure 6), and added an estimated 4.2 million hectares of forest fire area between 1984 and 2015.7 Based on all eight metrics, the Western U.S. experienced an average of 9 additional days per year of high fire potential due to climate change between 2000 and 2015, a 50 percent increase from the baseline of 17 days per year when looking back to 1979.

Biologists assume, for example, that the spotted hyena is now found in savannas and arid regions of Africa and the Middle East because it is perfectly adapted to their specific conditions, such as high temperatures and aridity.

But Stringer and Galway - Witham add that the region may have proved a difficult area to thrive in long term: «There were severe periods of aridity before and after this time, meaning that the region was probably more often a «boulevard of broken dreams» than a stable haven for early humans.»

Stein seems not to have hung it, and according to the catalogue for the 2007 Vallotton exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich, she later cruelly wrote that «Vallotton was a Manet for the impecunious,» whose «portraits had the aridity but none of the elegance of David.»

The potential for surprises increases as a function of sensitivity, but even «not so alarming» trends in warming can have long standing negative effects on reefal communities, continental aridity, etc..

To overcome this problem, Karnauskas et al. adapted an engineering method for estimating the potential evapotranspiration to GCM output, enabling them to calculate an aridity change index (ACI) for 80 globally distributed island groups.

What they found is that although about half of the island groups are projected to experience increased rainfall — predominantly in the deep tropics — overall changes to island freshwater balance will shift towards greater aridity for over 73 % of the island groups (16 million people) by mid-century.

The authors teased out the effects of climate warming from other factors by looking at eight different systems for rating forest aridity; these included the Palmer Drought Severity Index, the MacArthur Forest Fire Danger Index and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System.

Cyclostratigraphic analyses and transport mechanisms both point to solar irradiance and aridity as major triggering factors for dust supply over Western Europe during the Holocene.

«These conclusions have potential implications for the coming decades, as climate models predict greater aridity in the region,» the authors wrote.

Moreover, the faster - than - predicted change in global climate (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007) and the different available scenarios for climate change suggest an increase in aridity for the semi-arid regions of the globe and the Mediterranean region in the near future.

We used PDSI values from the North American Drought Atlas (NADA, version 2a) to detect changes in aridity variability and periodicity for the Southwest over the past millennium.

The result would be a crescendo of glacial outburst floods followed by a period of drastically increased aridity for the lands around Tibet.

Evidence for abrupt cooling (blue), aridity (red), flooding (green) and high wind (purple).

Rainfall change and variability is very likely to affect vegetation in tropical grassland and savanna systems with, for example, a reduction in cover and productivity simulated along an aridity gradient in southern African savanna in response to the observed drying trend of about 8 mm / yr since 1970 (Woodward and Lomas, 2004a).

They found that climate change is responsible for 55 percent of the observed increasing fuel aridity.

He then used model projections for the 21st Century to calculate potential changes in global aridity.