Sentences with phrase «ground by rainfall»

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Our goal is to «rehydrate the landscape» by increasing the amount of rainfall that is absorbed into the ground to recharge water supplies and feed headwater streams.»

Combining these models with data on local rainfall and snowmelt, the team calculated what fraction of the water is carried to the sea by rivers, and what fraction sinks into the ground.

Plants use carbon dioxide from the air to grow parts that eventually fall to the ground to decompose or get washed away by the region's plentiful rainfall.

The scientists converted the rainfall measurements to daily rates, and cumulative weekly amounts, and checked the accuracy by comparing them with ground - based rain gauges.

One big reason the sea level dropped for so long: Only 6 % of the rainfall in Australia runs directly back to the sea, and the rest runs inland to lowlands (image depicts a normally dry area in eastern Australia flooded by rains in late November 2011) where it either soaks into the ground or evaporates back into the atmosphere — a process that returns moisture to the sea far more slowly than the rivers draining other continents do.

However, they shift rainfall patterns by reducing evapotranspiration, the process by which water evaporates from the ground and enters the atmosphere.

It has been eroded by the action of rainfall and ground water into a very irregular and sharp surface.

So Tom Quirk got the rainfall data and discovered that rainfall in Australia has a large effect on the temperatures recorded by the sensors five feet off the ground.

A team of Berkeley Lab researchers has performed molecular level analysis of desert biological soil crusts — living ground cover formed by microbial communities — to reveal how long - dormant cyanobacteria become activated by rainfall then resume dormancy when the precipitation stops.

Scientists «exclude [d] rainfall from a 100 - meter - by -100-meter (1 hectare) plot of rainforest» by covering the ground with plastic sheet gutters.

Compared to those problems (bias and random variation), here is a large unknown: a 2 % increase in cloud cover would prevent the warming effect of increased CO2; will a 7 % increase in water vapor pressure, or 12 % increase in lightning ground strike rate, or a 2 % — 7 % increase in rainfall rate be accompanied by a 2 % increase in cloud cover?

The ground water extracted for irrigation comes from the superficial aquifer which is «readily» replenished by rainfall and through coastal limestone.

This is particularly true in the spring, when the winter's heavy snows begin to melt and can not be absorbed by the still - frozen ground, and in the summer, when heavy rainfall on already saturated ground leads to flash - flooding.