Sentences with phrase «low precipitation»

[Response: The point is that it would be very surprising if one year of low precipitation would matter very much.

In the warm season over continents, higher temperatures accompany lower precipitation amounts and vice versa.

Recent work suggests that the aggregate combination of extremely high temperatures and very low precipitation during the 2012 — 2014 event is the most severe in over a millennium (12).

In addition to causing extremely low precipitation in California, the Triple R is also largely responsible for California's record warmth over the past 9 months.

* Extremely high geopotential heights (a vertically aggregated measure of atmospheric temperature) over the northeastern Pacific Ocean are historically linked to very low precipitation in California.

feature of the Atherton Tableland, determined by low precipitation.

Periods of high or low precipitation associated with these patterns generally translate to periods of high or low annual streamflow, respectively (Karl and Riebsame 1989; McCabe and Wolock 2011).

These increases in drought risk have occurred despite a lack of substantial change in the occurrence of low or moderately low precipitation years (Figs. 1B and 2 A and B).

In ponderosa pine ecosystems, soil texture is an important factor in forest water stress during lower precipitation years and post-disturbance regeneration (Scianna [2011]-RRB-.

The combination of higher evaporation and lower precipitation depletes soil moisture and reduces runoff, making droughts more intense and more frequent.

Since 1999, abnormally low precipitation totals and hot and dry conditions have brought reservoir water levels close to record lows.

The phenomenon lowered precipitation over the oceans in the last decade, dampening the warming signal, they said.

At a global scale, grasslands are generally distributed in regions of low precipitation across a wide range of temperatures, with precipitation particularly limiting grassland productivity.

The descending air masses of the Polar Cells is responsible for low precipitation at the polls.

At the seasonal scale, products that merge satellite and gauge measurements produce low precipitation estimates whereas reanalysis products produce high estimates.

Periods of low precipitation show up throughout the historical record — some lasting only a single winter season (most notably 1976 - 1977), and others lasting the better part of a decade (for example, 1928 - 1935).

The darker grey shading denotes where soil moisture is not shown due to ice cover or climatologically low precipitation.

Agricultural droughts can occur for a variety of reasons, including low precipitation, the timing of water availability, or decreased access to water supplies.

The GCM's overestimation of precipitation frequency interferes with its skill to simulate the warmest summers characterized by relatively low precipitation.

At its root, drought results from lowered precipitation and sometimes higher temperatures (which increase evaporation rates).

«Of course low precipitation is a prerequisite for drought, but less rain and snowfall alone don't ensure a drought will happen.

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Droughts, or rather «air subsidence, hence low precipitation and high evaporation» belong to the subtropics — therefore much of North Africa and the Middle East is covered by (semi) desert.

This relationship of higher warm - season temperatures with lower precipitation appears to apply also to trends (Trenberth and Shea, 2005).

For example, the projected increase in extremely low precipitation and extremely high temperature during spring and autumn has substantial implications for snowpack water storage, wildfire risk, and terrestrial ecosystems (47).

In 2015, higher temperatures combined with low precipitation, leading to one of its lowest snowpack levels on record.

The authors note that lower precipitation in South America and higher temperatures in Africa are changes that are expected to occur by the end of this century due to climate change.

All 20 August — July 12 - mo periods that exhibited a — 1.0 SD PMDI anomaly also exhibited a — 0.5 SD precipitation anomaly (Fig. 1B and 2E), suggesting that moderately low precipitation is prerequisite for a 1 - SD drought year.

California has been in a drought since 2011 and this multi-year period of low precipitation, by some measures, is the state's most severe in 500 years.

The western-most region of the continental United States set records for low snowpack levels in 2015 and scientists, through a new study, point the finger at high temperatures, not the low precipitation characteristic of past «snow drought» years.

Dry and arid climates are usually desert - like with low precipitation and wide temperature swings both daily and seasonally.

The Editor - in - Chief of Desalination, Nidal Hilal, said about the research, «The available supplies of water are decreasing due to increased population growth, low precipitation, competing demands from industry and more stringent health based regulations for agricultural and urban development.

According to the authors of a study published in HortScience, growing requirements for sweetpotato crops in California closely match the weather conditions in the Treasure Valley of eastern Oregon and southwestern Idaho, where the growing season is characterized by high evapotranspiration and low precipitation.

In South America, lower precipitation, which reduces the growth of plants, was largely responsible.

It is commonly thought that hydrologic change is driven by precipitation and radiation changes caused by climate change, and that as the land surface adjusts, rising temperatures and lower precipitation will make the planet drier.

«In the case of California's drought, the climate models do not indicate that such extremely low precipitation is an expected consequence of human influence on the climate system,» said

«In the case of California's drought, the climate models do not indicate that such extremely low precipitation is an expected consequence of human influence on the climate system,» said Ken Caldeira, a Stanford - based scientist with the Carnegie Institution for Science's global ecology department.

«If trees have access to a larger volume of soil, this promotes more wooded vegetation whereas shallower rooting, lower precipitation and fire promote less wooded, grass dominated vegetation zones.

This low precipitation allows high - latitude snowfalls to melt during the summer.

The first piece of Mildrexler and colleagues» effort was the creation of a forest vulnerability index that, in effect, relates climatic drivers of vulnerability, such as extreme temperature and low precipitation, directly to physiological stress factors, which reduce photosynthesis and deteriorate forest health.

With the recent record high heat, low precipitation, it seems this summer has been primed as repeat in history.

Holidaymakers have two more months to enjoy the warm, sunny beaches and low precipitation of Gran Canaria.

«Warming in California has made it more probable that when a low precipitation year occurs, it occurs in warm conditions and is more likely to produce severe drought,» said lead study author Noah Diffenbaugh, an associate professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford.