Sentences with phrase «greater aridity»

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

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.

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Alan Davie, who died on Saturday aged 93, was one of the great 20th - century British artists, a life - long maverick whose explosive canvases cut a swathe through the provincial aridity of the postwar art scene.

A 2100 - yr decadal - resolution salinity and aridity proxy record of lacustrine ostracode - shell Mg / Ca ratios from a closed - basin lake in the northern Great Plains shows statistically significant periodicities of ∼ 400, 200, 130, and 100 yr.

The developed world will be affected, but the developing world will be hurt even more, by increasing aridity, greater temperatures and faster population growth.

So, too, has global warming as a consequence of the combustion of fossil fuels, which has begun to extend the growing season, create ever greater levels of fuels and increase aridity in already dry lands.