Sentences with phrase «historical rainfall records»

These snail shells, which are made of calcium carbonate, could fill in gaps in historical rainfall records and help scientists understand the evolution of monsoons on the Indian subcontinent, he explained.

These snail shells, which are made of calcium carbonate, could fill in gaps in historical rainfall records and help scientists understand the evolution of monsoons on the Indian subcontinent, he explained.

With Denniston and Gonzales, Villarini examined historical rainfall records from a weather station near the cave.

Not exact matches

The ratio of strontium to calcium in a given layer of coral reef — as well as the amount of a heavier isotope of oxygen in the carbonate itself — reflect the temperature in this historical record, but the isotopic information also reveals rainfall.

(By contrast, the historical record indicates that the traditional El Niño, which occurs in the eastern Pacific, has little effect on rainfall levels in the subcontinent.)

Studies of historical records in India suggest that reduced monsoon rainfall in central India has occurred when the sea surface temperatures in specific regions of the Pacific Ocean were warmer than normal.

They applied it to the area around the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed in Arizona, a place with excellent long - term historical rainfall data recorded on a per - minute basis.

Drought always causes higher temperatures, but curiously they also reported that given the lack of rainfall the high temperatures were not as high as expected writing, «The scatter plot shows that 2012 was the driest summer in the historical record, though the temperature anomaly of +2 °C was exceeded by two prior summers — 1934 and 1936.

The warming records that article talks about are one offs, and beat by a slim temporary margin, whereas things like the California droughts are historical and mostly in a desert area already, which was charged up by heavy rainfall this spring, which led to so many ladder fuels to burn when it inevitably dries out by mid summer to late fall.

Ghosh and his colleagues report in their paper that by using data from fresh and archived shells, they can independently verify historical human rainfall records.

Among the other rainfall records set this month: least year - to - date precipitation (6.53 inches; historical average 16.03 inches; previous record 9.36 inches in 1917); driest consecutive 8, 9 and 10 months on record (7.25 inches 8.35 inches, and 9.17 inches respectively); and driest 12 months ending in July (15.16 inches, previous record 16.46 inches in 1925).

• Record - breaking rainfall in the Ohio valley in the spring and summer, combined with melting snowpack, resulted in historical flooding along the Mississippi River and its tributaries.