Sentences with phrase «in wet years»

In wet years, it pays for plants to grow big before they flower, so that they can make more seeds.

During dry years it takes over the sand bars, but floods in wet years clear things out and produce new sand bars.

This projection has been confirmed for cool desert shrub species (Hamerlynck et al., 2002), and both desert shrubs and invasive (but not indigenous) grasses in wet years only (Smith et al., 2000).

Global warming is increasing the strain on water supplies in California through rising temperature, even in wet years.

In wet years, fires often stop at the forests» edge because the forest soil is so moist.

Tree species like oak and bristle cone pines grow more in wet years, leaving wider rings, and vice versa for drought years.

In wet years, the additional organic matter in the soil wicks water away from plant roots, limiting erosion and keeping plants in place.

And even in wet years, warmer temperatures could mean that more precipitation falls as rain, not snow, setting up the possibility that many more years will see an April 1 with very little snow.

However, Chang's team noticed a couple native species did better in wet years too.

In wet years, the rings are fat; in lean years, thin.

Even in wet years, giant sequoia trees have the challenging task of conducting water up hundreds of feet, against gravity, to carry through processes for photosynthesis.

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

«but the tree population can not recover immediately in wet years — it takes time for new seedlings to establish and for us to see more trees in the landscape.»

The spring flowers in a wet year were unbelievable.

Some chiltepíneros have suggested that in a wet year like 1990, fifty tons might be a better estimate.

It is important to capitalise on good storage volumes and environmental water availability in wetter years in order to build ecological resilience — the ability of river, wetland and floodplain ecosystems to withstand and recover from the impact of future droughts.

First, the slight recharge that would occur in wetter years is all but absent during times of dryness.

«In a wet year it can be as tall as a barbed - wire fence.»

Large contribution of boreal upland forest soils to a catchment - scale CH4 balance in a wet year.

Large contribution of boreal upland forest soils to a catchment - scale CH4 balance in a wet year.

It is assumed the catchment is saturated — so perhaps more likely in a wet year.

But in a WET YEAR (e.g. ARkStorm) cities get 7.7 maf, farms 27.7 maf and the environment a whopping 62.1 maf (or 64 % of the water pie).

In a wet year, 30 percent of the water going into the Delta is diverted from going into the Bay.

Not exact matches

It's actually quite a relief to hear from someone with years of experience who has built a substantial, multi-decade career in a major industry at a global corporation (BP / Amoco) instead of a wet - behind - the - ears «expert» who's had about 15 minutes of startup success and no clue about how he or she got there, or what to do next.

This year Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin have been wetter than ever before; Australia, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have severely flooded; in New Zealand the rainfall is four times the usual.

Thanks to the unusually wet winter in California, hydroelectricity is abundant this year, says Greenlee.

Despite a wet and late spring throughout much of North America, Agrium, North America's largest seller of farm products, reported the strongest earnings in its 80 - year history amid surging demand for its nutrients, crop protection chemicals and seeds.

The black color with white / grey tips has become quite popular in the wet shaving crowd in recent years due to its unique appearance.

Baseball season started a bit earlier in the calendar year than usual this year, leaving games in cities like Detroit, Chicago, and all across the Northeast to be played in cold, wet, and sometimes even wintry conditions.

The waterproof membrane is backed by a one year limited warranty, so you can play in any weather without having wet feet.

Wet Seal and other mall - based, teen - focused peers such as Abercrombie & Fitch and American Eagle have faced challenges as mall traffic has weakened in recent years.

Wet Seal, which last year announced it would close its Arden B locations, has reported annual losses in 2012 and 2013 as sales tumbled lower.

A spate of bankruptcies among mall stalwarts in the past two years, including Aéropostale, Wet Seal, Pacific Sunwear, and American Apparel, has also pressured landlords.

The year started off with torrential rainfall in California, marking the wettest winter in a century.

Indeed, it was only a few years ago that most people thought that wet shaving meant shaving in the shower.

To most people during those years, wet shaving simply meant shaving with water in any form or amount.

Molly Shannon's been goofing around in niche comedy lanes like Wet Hot American Summer and Children's Hospital for several years now, and placing her atop the reboot of The Office would be a long overdue return to prominence after her run on SNL.

For example, I would strongly recommend that the subjects of «wet dreams» for boys and menstruation for girls be dealt with in classes of boys and girls separately from each other, particularly in the earlier years.

It is not a problem to be left in the hands of some virtually self - appointed, unaccountable publishing committee in New York or teams of writers who may not have seen or helped a «wet drunk» in years.

It has been an unusual summer... first the cold wet start of it and then the heat and then storms... seems I had to run around and unplug everything every week or so... just disruptive to our regular routine... but we got the hay up without a drop of rain on it... so our record is now 5 years in a row of putting up good hay.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

I lived in the Pacific North Wet West for 30 years, near Long Beach, Wa.

Incredibly, several studies published in the past few years have completely corroborated our original tests with Professor Dia in the Philippines back in 2005, showing that traditional wet - milling processes that employ heat produce the highest levels of antioxidants.

So I've made this recipe 2 years in a row now, and while it tastes great every time, I have a ton of trouble with the braiding because, after the 2nd rise (with the apples folded in), the dough gets super wet / sticky and difficult to manage!

In 2012 — 13, environmental water holders and managers have sought to build on the Basin's positive ecological response to wet conditions over the past two years.

Under the generous WET system, originally designed to help smaller and regional wineries remain competitive, any winemaker with sales below $ 1.72 million can claim up to $ 500,000 a year in rebates, effectively making them exempt from tax.

I know I shouldn't wish away these years, but I'll be honest... I often have trouble convincing myself that this is, in fact true, and long for the days that I can hold a conversation with everyone at the table, all eating the same meal, at the same time — tears, messes, and wet wipes BE GONE.

For the past 10 years I have always been in the first 15 people in the Toys R Us line and not for the toys but for diapers and wet ones, they have killer deals on them.

I hear we're in for a wet El Niño next year, thankfully.

[pinit] I named this watermelon smoothie after the wet summer we've been having in the UK this year.