Sentences with phrase «moisture out of soil»

Buried pipes and blowers flushed excess moisture out of the soil and fed oxygen to the turf while producing a muffled, rumbling sound suggestive of a volcano about to erupt.

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The giant squash leaves spread out and shade the roots of the other plants, retaining moisture in the soil, and the spiny stems help prevent pests from climbing onto the other plants.

For more than a third of the country, out - of - the - ordinary soil moisture can change the likelihood of next - day rain by a median factor of 13 %.

But separating out the effects of soil condition, such as moisture and acidity, has been difficult.

As follows, the problem for Kansas: Warmer winters are bad news for the wheat farmers» requirement for freezing temperatures to grow winter wheat, and during summer, warmer days rob Kansas of precious soil moisture, drying out valuable wheat crop.

To figure out how much anthropogenic warming contributed to California's drought, Park Williams and a team at Columbia University's Earth Institute looked at soil moisture data in various parts of the state for every month from 1901 through 2014.

Warmer air can hold more moisture, and the air ends up sucking it out of plants, trees, dead vegetation on the ground, and soil.

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

Using a perfect modeling framework, we set out to determine the upper limits of predictability for precipitation, soil moisture and forest fire risk in the US.

Predicting how such feedbacks will play out in the next 300 years will certainly require good predictions of regional climate change — not just temperature, but also precipitation, snow pack, soil moisture, etc..

From the Southwest to the Great Lakes, temperatures have been so high and rainfall so low that the drying effect of warmer air temperatures far exceeded what little precipitation there's been, resulting in moisture being drawn out of soils.

For soil moisture and solar radiation, regional differences in the number of suitable plant growing days averaged out globally under all scenarios (solid green and yellow lines in Fig 3).