Sentences with phrase «less rainfall in»

More rainfall in some places Less rainfall in the places where it doesn't rain more Hotter, apart from where its colder Lots more heat in the oceans (somewhere) Catastrophic sea level rise — at the same rate as the last five centuries.

Worse, there was much less rainfall in many places, together with high winds and severe dust storms.

There's going to be less rainfall in already arid regions, that's fairly certain.

As well as this, increased average temperatures and more erratic rainfall could become be the «new normal» according to the report — with significantly less rainfall in the Mediterranean, Madagascar and the Cerrado - Pantanal in Argentina.

Matching the models with stalagmites There was a much clearer correlation between less rainfall in the region and the Heinrich events, Carolin said.

Not exact matches

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

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

Because Irma will be moving steadily northward once it makes its turn, rainfall amounts will be far less than the top totals of 40» — 50» recorded in slow - moving Hurricane Harvey.

During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

The winter has been remarkably dry through much of the UK, with less rainfall than in the months preceding the severe drought of 1976, which triggered water rationing and wild fires.

If rainfall becomes more irregular, as it's predicted to in the future, «then with the same average rainfall, the peatland can support less peat,» Cobb says.

«You get less evaporation, less moisture in the atmosphere, and less rainfall again.

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

In the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the aiIn the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the aiin the air.

In contrast, both rural and urban dry environments experience similar temperature increases, and both have less annual rainfall than their eastern and southeastern counterparts.

Despite rainfall decreasing by about 7 inches annually in the grain belt located in Western Australia since the 1970s, wheat production has increased, and Eckard said that's because farmers have employed adaptations such as planting species with shorter growing seasons, dry sowing seeds and tilling fields less often.

The weaker temperature gradient would have meant less rainfall and more evaporation in the midlatitude North Pacific.

«In reality, we also experience much more intense rainfalls in less timIn reality, we also experience much more intense rainfalls in less timin less time.

The model suggests that while summer rainfall increases in northwest Europe, Mediterranean regions will receive less rain.

Increased rainfall could mean more vegetation and therefore less soil exposed to wind erosion in the Sahel.

Drs Singer and Michaelides employ STORM to show that the historical rainfall trends likely resulted in less runoff from this dryland basin, an effect they expect to have occurred at many similar basins in the region.

The particles could have acted like a shield, blocking out the sun and preventing some radiation from evaporating water on the planet's surface, resulting in even less rainfall.

Interestingly, the study shows that there is a long - term decline in heavy rainfall events (greater than 25 mm / h) and an associated increase in the number of smaller storms each delivering less rainfall.

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

The bureau has also been practicing a less well - honed strategy that involves overseeding the clouds to actually prevent rainfall; this technique increases the number of ice crystals in a cloud but decreases their mean size, which makes them less likely to fall as rain.

There have been significant regional trends in rainfall with the northern, eastern and southern parts of the continent receiving greater rainfall and the western region receiving less.

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).

Warmer temperatures mean hotter days in the field and less predictable rainfall, which throws off the entire farming process and leaves producers without a crop to sell.

Over the past few years, many parts of the country has had less rainfall than in the past.

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

Since Ambergris Caye is in northern Belize, it receives much less rainfall than southern locations such as Placencia and Punta Gorda.

The high and heavy rainfall seen in September with 400 mm is gone and the days are drier with slightly less humidity.

In August, Cancun receives more rainfall than it does in July, although it's still less than the resort experiences in September, which is the wettest month of the yeaIn August, Cancun receives more rainfall than it does in July, although it's still less than the resort experiences in September, which is the wettest month of the yeain July, although it's still less than the resort experiences in September, which is the wettest month of the yeain September, which is the wettest month of the year.

The city's average annual rainfall is almost the same as London, in the south east, and is considerably less than either Glasgow or Manchester.

Temperatures typically range in the 70s and 80s and yield less than a half - inch of rainfall.

Being in the tropics, many visitors would expect to see rainforest, but Magnetic Island, having considerably less rainfall than the wet tropics slightly further north and the Whitsundays slightly further south, is typical of the dry tropics.

Most recently, the artist exhibited in Dreamers Awake at White Cube, London, 99 Cents or Less at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Sticky Fingers at Arsenal Contemporary, and The Sun and the Rainfall II at Galleria Zero, Milan.

Even a duck at half the size is a pretty frightening prospect as we in Western Australian Agriculture are dealing with much lower and less predictable rainfall.

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.

WHEREAS Statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and

There was less rainfall over land, and a record decrease in runoff and ocean discharge into the ocean from October 1991 to September 1992, the scientists report this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Since 1970 we have seen exactly what global warming models predict — more rainfall in the North - West and some desert areas and less in the major agricultural regions.

Almost exclusively located in the northern hemisphere Very little rainfall — less than 15 inches / year.

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.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

In the Amazon, deforested areas receive less rainfall, and the plants and trees retain less moisture.

During a 5 - year period between 1988 and 1998 when total rainfall from April to August was less than 14 inches (compared to 20 inches in normal years), average organic corn yields were 31 % greater than conventional system.

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Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

In Australia, less frequent flooding from early last century to the mid 1940's, more frequent flooding to the late 1970's and again a low rainfall regime to recent times.