Sentences with phrase «in seasonal drought»

«That one seemed to have a favorable reaction to changes in seasonal drought.

Dry conditions will continue across eastern Montana, western North Dakota and western South Dakota through October, the U.S. Climate Predication Center said in a seasonal drought outlook report issued last week.

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But they also attribute the price fall to a seasonal rise in stock, after a drought of low listings earlier in the year.

During more than a decade of observation, grapevines in Napa, Calif., and Bordeaux, France, never reached lethal levels of dehydration from seasonal drought, researchers report online January 31 in Science Advances.

The developed drought - fire models in this study can help to developing a seasonal forecast system for these management strategies.

The goal is to get models to the point where they can have skill in predicting features like drought or seasonal hurricane activity a few years ahead, said climate scientist Doug Smith, who leads the Met Office effort.

In some areas, where rain may be seasonal or intermittent, drought tolerance may be a greater consideration than tolerance of flooding.

Jorge Vazquez - Aguirre is in charge of the climatology working group at the National Meteorological Service of Mexico with operational duties related to climatic data, seasonal prediction, drought monitoring and climate services.

Viewed relative to population size, seasonal floods also caused significant displacement in sub-Saharan Africa, most notably in Niger, Chad, Sudan and South Sudan — countries with highly vulnerable populations who are also affected by conflict and drought.

In Texas, it is now being reported, indications are of many lost crops and lost beef production due to a drier regional climate (see graphic above for latest seasonal drought trend).

Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southernUSA.Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to aLa - Nina - like decadal cooling.

They are being battered by stronger storms, more destructive floods, deeper and longer droughts and disruptive switches in the seasonal timing of rain.

Vines are becoming increasingly abundant in tropical forests as a result of climate change and severe seasonal drought and their rapid growth is harming trees and impacting carbon storage, a new study has revealed.

«The Amazon rainforest has already entered a dieback, in which the vicious cycle between land use (cattle ranching, logging), seasonal drought, and fire are rapidly degrading enormous swathes of rainforest each year.

In wetter regions, more intense seasonal droughts can be managed by current water - supply systems and by adaptation; for example, demand can be reduced by using water more efficiently, or supply can be increased by increasing the storage capacity in reservoirIn wetter regions, more intense seasonal droughts can be managed by current water - supply systems and by adaptation; for example, demand can be reduced by using water more efficiently, or supply can be increased by increasing the storage capacity in reservoirin reservoirs.

Seasonal drought risk is also projected to increase in summer and fall as higher temperatures lead to greater evaporation and earlier winter and spring snowmelt.11

With this tool, you can compare changes in monthly, seasonal, and annual variability of parameters such as temperature, precipitation, and a variety of drought indices.

In terms of practical interest (as opposed to scientific interest) the main concerns relate to out - 0f - season rainfall, lack of seasonal rainfall (drought) and floods.

Prior to joining PCIC Markus was a Hydrologic Modelling Scientist and Forecaster with the BC Ministry of Environment, River Forecast Centre, where he was engaged in the analysis of observed climate and hydrometric data and the application of various hydrologic models for flood, drought and seasonal streamflow forecasting.

The Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) forest in Yatir, Israel, is such an extreme case, with a mean annual precipitation of 285 mm and 6 — 8 months of continuous seasonal drought (Grünzweig et al. 2003, Rotenberg and Yakir 2010).

This low precipitation period, on top of the steady seasonal drought, permitted an extreme drought stress study that acknowledges the important role of climate extremes (rather than changes in the mean) in tree function (Reyer et al. 2012).

In particular, seasonal and multi-year drought frequency and intensity may have increased, and such increase could in part be attributable to anthropogenic forcing (e.g., Dai, 2011; Li et al., 2008In particular, seasonal and multi-year drought frequency and intensity may have increased, and such increase could in part be attributable to anthropogenic forcing (e.g., Dai, 2011; Li et al., 2008in part be attributable to anthropogenic forcing (e.g., Dai, 2011; Li et al., 2008).

In India a marked seasonal alternation of rainfall and drought, caused by the monsoon, extends northward into latitudes where distinct temperature seasons also exist.

Known collectively as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, the changing seasonal phenomena known as El Niño and La Niña could lead to at least a doubling of extreme droughts and floods in California later this century.

In East Africa, climate change has amplified a chain of disasters: floods, extreme droughts, seasonal shifts and crop failure, animal diseases, water and fodder shortage, and social collapse.

Which is a bit strange considering a report from the European Environment Agency showing that temperatures in the Alps are increasing a twice rate of the global average with more droughts and greater seasonal variability in precipitation forecast.

Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southern USA.

Floods, droughts, hurricanes, sea - level rise and seasonal unpredictability - hallmarks of climate change - are affecting people's rights to life, security, food, water, health and shelter in all corners of the world today.

PRUDENCE RCM outputs showed non-linear relationships between mean maximum temperature and indices of drought and heatwave (Good et al., 2006), while changes in maximum 1 - day and 5 - day precipitation amounts were systematically enhanced relative to changes in seasonal mean precipitation across many regions of Europe (Beniston et al., 2007).