Sentences with phrase «lowest precipitation amount»

The lowest precipitation amount was determined for the area in the Upper Neckar Valley.

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Lower amounts in that month could come as a result of a decrease in the amount of snow, he said, because precipitation will come as rain instead of snow.

When low - temperature ice covers the Arctic Ocean there is little evaporation or sublimation and the polar regions are quite dry in terms of precipitation, comparable to the amount found in mid-latitude deserts.

In Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific warmer surface waters increased the water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amounts.

In agreement with the results of their study, the contribution of variability (i.e. amount of precipitation during the driest and the wettest quarters) in our model was low; nevertheless the overall geographic fit of the model was improved when those two variables were included.

In principal — transition to open cell — low albedo — cloud is dependent on the amount of precipitation and therefore on the concentration of cloud condensation nuclei (CCN).

Northeast BC experienced a dry winter with low snow packs and these conditions are revealed as below normal to much below normal precipitation amounts in January and March (seasonal values are shown in Figure 3a).