Sentences with phrase «in dry years»

They require knowledge of future climate... to ensure water supply in dry years.

But in dry years there was a marked increase in crop failures, because of excessive heat.

Investment in new transmission capacity may also be required to avoid price spikes or even failure of supply in a dry year.

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In fact in a dry year such as 1998 glaciers yielded 28 billion gallons of runoff to Baker Lake, while other sources were below average, which amounted to 45 % of the total basin flow.

In fact in a dry year such as 1998 glaciers yielded 110 million m3 of runoff to Baker Lake, while other sources were below average, which amounted to 45 % of the total basin flow (Pelto, 2008).

He prefers the state to continue the practice of pumping from the delta, while allowing for some relaxation of an interpretation of the federal Endangered Species Act that for 20 years has limited the amount of water that could be pumped in dry years.

Moreover, kangaroos don't reduce the habitat to a dust bowl in dry years, as do sheep.

Farms have drawn hundreds of millions of gallons to spread across crops, pumping more in dry years to make up for what rivers could not provide.

He knows his fields could thrive with much smaller amounts of water — he's seen them do so in dry years — but the property owners he works for have the legal right to take a large supply, and he applies the water generously.

But, Jacob said, the significance of the study is that it shows a new way for scientists to estimate total water loss during times of drought, which would be more difficult to estimate without being able to detect how much the land is being uplifted in dry years.

Herculean conservation efforts — carving out nature reserves, establishing captive breeding programs, pumping water into swamps in dry years — have done little to shore up the tortoise's future in the wild, which is why Mitchell and her colleagues have turned to assisted colonization.

In effect, the plants had shifted to flowering a few days earlier to take full advantage of the short «wet» season in dry years.

South Australia's small mammal populations tend to boom after heavy rainfalls, but Pedler notes that the biggest recoveries happened in dry years.

This impact, seen in dry years especially, affects the layer of air closest to Earth, which is most susceptible to heat exchange and evaporation from the Earth's surface.

In dry years glacier runoff constitutes most of later summer inflows to several large reservoirs.

Wet years can increase the amount of vegetation, providing a greater «fuel load» for fires in dry years.

Fire emissions showed highly variability during the period, but were greatest in dry years, such as those that occur during El Niño events.

Emissions could double in dry years, said Dan Nepstad, senior scientist at Woods Hole.

A longer view reveals an even more startling economic impact: factoring in the dry years from 2007 - 2009, the total additional energy cost to the state's electricity users during the six years of recent drought was $ 2.4 billion.

Alvin Smucker, an MSU AgBioResearch scientist and professor of soil biophysics, led the development of a subsurface water retention membrane that has been shown to increase vegetable production in dry years.

«In dry years, farmers from the neighbouring village may secretly divert extra water into their fields... The last time this happened all the men from my village gathered and went to the neighbouring village in the middle of the night to destroy the bunds bordering their rice terraces.»

In wet years, the rings are wider; in dry years, skinnier.

«Production can be zero in a dry year,» Pellant says.

But in dry years, water stress and fewer insects make the bats come out earlier, says Frick.

But in dry years, the Amazon turns into a carbon polluter, releasing more carbon than it takes up.

In dry years, it is reduced to a muddy marsh.

This expectation is supported by observations which show that in drier years the monsoon rains move farther inland over Africa.

But in dry years, they run out of water before they can reap the benefit.

Forecast was for «A decrease in cereal yields by 50 % in dry years and 10 % in normal years.»

In dry years, these fires can burn for months, contributing to the «haze» that regularly plagues Southeast Asia.

But in a dry year, it's around 70 percent.