Sentences with phrase «hydrological cycling data»
We must scrutinize these «reasons» in the light of new biospheric & hydrological cycling data.
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In hydrological data, there are series of 20 or 30 years, when we would need 100 years or more to see if there is a cycle of flooding and drought.»
Characterizing and understanding the multidecadal variations of the continental hydrological cycle is a challenging issue given the limitation of observed data sets.
The scientists analyzed tree - ring data and other indicators of local historical climate and found neither climate change nor natural hydrological cycles to be responsible for the diminishing of the lake.
The results have implications for how we interpret the impact of global warming on the hydrological cycle and its extremes, and may help to explain why palaeoclimate drought reconstructions based on tree - ring data diverge from the PDSI - based drought record in recent years9, 10.
It is a given that the existing models do not fully incorporate data or mechanisms involving cloudiness or global albedo (reflectivity) variations or variations in the speed of the hydrological cycle and that the variability in the temperatures of the ocean surfaces and the overall ocean energy content are barely understood and wholly inadequately quantified in the infant attempts at coupled ocean / atmosphere models.