Sentences with phrase «in a few areas rainfall»

Mass gain occurs almost entirely by snowfall, although in a few areas rainfall on the snow can add a small fraction to the mass input.

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My guess on why was shown at RC a few weeks ago in comment # 12... Wayne, if it's true as you indicated in 9, that upper air temperatures are increasing at a much stronger rate than near the surface, it seems to me the departure would explain at least part of what seems to be a large increase in world area having minimal rainfall and drought... at: http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2006/07/peter-doran-and-how-misleading-talking-points-propagate/

(Nitrogen is a big problem in native plant areas because it's one of the limiting nutrients, and when it's supplied whether by fertilizer or grazing animals or rainfall, that tips the balance toward European and Asian annual grasses that are very shallow - rooted — they steal every drop of rain that falls, and then burn by midsummer when the N. American native perennials are just setting seed; after a few years the deep - rooted perennials are gone; after a few more years so is the topsoil).

Answers for the human species often involve the global warming problem, as the water evaporates, but this can create more rainfall in a few areas.

I am one of the few working in the area of rainfall patterns over different parts of the globe.