Sentences with phrase «indicate dry years»

Wide rings show years of growth and adequate rain, while narrow rings indicate dry years.

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Results from the Bain Private Equity Survey indicate that GPs sitting on a mountain of dry powder may not have been giving fund - raising their full attention during the year.

Glyphs on the codex indicate the tribute paid to the Aztecs by conquered towns just before the Spanish conquest; the towns on one tribute list (in what is now San Luis Potosí) gave 1,600 loads of dry chile to the imperial throne each year!

This study, combined with our observations over the years, indicates that the highest germination percentage of pepper seed occurs in seed harvested from early red pods that are dried for one to four months.

Initial findings indicate that the structure was built on dry land approximately 6,000 years ago, and later submerged under the water.

Brown researchers have compiled a detailed Indonesian climate record of the last 60,000 years, tracking telltale indicators in sedimentary cores: titanium levels (a marker for surface water runoff) and the carbon isotopes of leaf wax, a marker for plant varieties (grasses indicate dry conditions).

Computer model projections of future conditions analyzed by the Scripps team indicate that regions such as the Amazon, Central America, Indonesia, and all Mediterranean climate regions around the world will likely see the greatest increase in the number of «dry days» per year, going without rain for as many as 30 days more every year.

Antarctica's Friis Hills in the central Dry Valleys of the eastern portion of the continent contains ancient lake deposits indicating that the area has remained frozen for 14 to 17.5 million years.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

Manufacturers typically indicate that tires should not be used past 6 - 10 years, as the protective compounds have almost always worn out by then and dry rot is very likely.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

Since it's essentially, and of course ironically, entirely non-scientists who make this claim, the deniers would do well to read a recent UCLA study that indicates California's current six - year severe drought could be exacerbated enough by global warming to extend the dry period for centuries.

In our simulations, when precipitation fell below average, the trees quickly shed foliage to adapt to the drier conditions, and tree vigor was negatively affected by the sudden drop in leaf area as indicated by the decrease in the following year's GE (ratio of change in the change in LAI to stem diameter).

In reconstructed Sacramento River streamflow, the 20 - year period ending in 1158 was the second driest in this record that extends to AD 869 (40), indicating the impact of this drought in northern Sierra Nevada watersheds as well.