Sentences with phrase «less rainfall for»

Not exact matches

Less than 5 % of agriculture on the continent is irrigated, and rainfall can be absent for weeks on end in some countries.

For example, ancient Greeks and 19th - century Americans debated how cutting down forests might bring more rainfall to a region, or perhaps less.

Less rain, more storm damage Ireland has assiduously collected rainfall data, with amounts for the past 12 years showing huge year - to - year variations.

Colin Kelley of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues analysed Syrian weather data since 1931, and found steadily less winter rainfall, which is crucial for crops, and higher temperatures, which dry soils faster.

About 50 years after installing the panels, India and eastern Australia, for example, get warmer because of less rainfall, and the northwestern United States gets warmer because of wind pattern changes.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

Pemuteran receives less rainfall than other island areas during rainy season and is too dry for rice cultivation.

Even though the sea is certainly warm enough for swimming at this time of year, the intense rainfall might make the sunshine less enjoyable.

My own analysis for my neck - of - the - woods (slightly less definite due to the data from the local weather station having stalled in May 2013 — probably due to spending cuts)-- February saw record rainfall, 38 % above the previous 55 - year February maximum and 3.35 sd above the February mean.

For decades, it has been a given that heavy rainfall on steep mountain slopes is likely to chemically weather the exposed rock and precipitate a chemical reaction that ends with carbonate minerals on the ground and with less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

For example, ancient Greeks and 19th - century Americans debated how cutting down forests might bring more rainfall to a region, or perhaps less.

They can't even predict the next decade, much less ten decades; despite tuning they only poorly replicate the historical climate; their equations can't be shown to converge; the number of tunable parameters is far too large for comfort; they show absolutely no skill at regional scales; their results for things they are not tuned to replicate (e.g. rainfall) are abysmal — in short they are glorified Tinkertoy ™ models which have one common characteristic... they don't work well.

There is a note that rainfall reconstructions are noticably less satisfactory for very wet years - which has also been commented on by other tree ring observers.

As for rainfall, in the simplest models, lowered temperatures decrease evaporation of water from the surface into the air; and less water vapor translates to less rain.

«You get a little drop in rainfall and then plants are under more stress and there is less flow into streams,» he said... «I think that all the prognoses for climate change is that the South - West is going to keep drying out and getting hotter,» he said.

Importantly, the changes in cereal yield projected for the 2020s and 2080s are driven by GHG - induced climate change and likely do not fully capture interannual precipitation variability which can result in large yield reductions during dry periods, as the IPCC (Christensen et al., 2007) states: ``... there is less confidence in the ability of the AOGCMs (atmosphere - ocean general circulation models) to generate interannual variability in the SSTs (sea surface temperatures) of the type known to affect African rainfall, as evidenced by the fact that very few AOGCMs produce droughts comparable in magnitude to the Sahel droughts of the 1970s and 1980s.»

In fact, forecasts for less annual rainfall in years to come have cast uncertainty on the very future of California and its rapidly growing human population.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

However, even if East Africa will see more rainfall instead of less, it's likely to come in bigger bursts — i.e. flooding — instead of the dependable rain needed for communities.

«There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less - than - average frequent rainfall,» said lead author Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, New York.

Cape Town is entering its fourth year of drought — the worst in 100 years, with an average of 234 millimetres of rainfall a year for the past three years, less than half the average since 1977.

In Central America, temperature is predicted to increase, and rainfall is predicted to decrease [44], making many of these areas less favorable for Bd.

The month brought an entirely average amount of sunshine, and less than average rainfall for the South (78 %), and slightly above average (110 %) for the UK.

The NOAA CLIM20 report is available as a free download, and has historic precipatation data that may be useful for planning a rain collection system (for example, probability that rainfall will be less than a given level)

If you lived where the rainfall was less than half an inch (12 mm) for the whole year you'd either die, or get pretty smart about how to get a drink.

However, pointing out an exact reason for less rainfall is difficult as climate scientists have been unable to discover the exact reasons for a good monsoon.»

The Seattle area has a reputation for being extremely rainy, but it actually receives less annual rainfall than New York City, Atlanta and several other metropolitan cities.