Sentences with phrase «frequency of dry spells»

Studying the pattern of monsoons in South Asia since 1980, researchers observed an increase in the intensity of wet spells and in the frequency of dry spells.

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To understand how these sensitive butterflies might respond to future dry spells, the scientists then used different scenarios of carbon dioxide emissions to predict the frequency of future droughts up to the year 2100.

However, precipitation intensity changes nonlinearly with temperature (Lenderink, and van Meijgaard, 2008; doi: 10.1038 / ngeo262), circulations and the frequency of dry / wet spells may change (Haarsma et al, 2009; doi: 10.1029 / 2008GL036617), simultaneous occurrence of floods and storm surges changes nonlinearly (Kew et al, in review), and this is just the «meteorological» part of the spectrum.

In particular, in the European Mediterranean region, increases in the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflower).

The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.