Sentences with phrase «monsoon period»

Some areas in Utah experience a monsoon period during the summer and fall, which means seasonal flash flooding.

If you're heading for South - East Asia during the rainy season, here's a country - by - country guide on what to expect during the monsoon period.

Humidity and rainfalls are low, except during the monsoon period from October to April, when rainfalls can be heavy, especially from January to March.

A new study released yesterday in the journal Nature Climate Change found that extreme wet and dry spells within the monsoon period have increased since 1980.

Some areas in Utah experience a monsoon period during the summer and fall, which means seasonal flash flooding.

This study evaluates the forecast skill of the fourth version of the Canadian coupled ocean — atmosphere general circulation model (CanCM4) and its model output statistics (MOS) to forecast the seasonal rainfall in Malaysia, particularly during early (October — November — December) and late (January — February — March) winter monsoon periods.

Not exact matches

Using the sediment samples from the Qaidam Basin, Nie and Garzione show that the East Asian monsoon patterns in the late Miocene also follow similar 100,000 year cycles, with stronger monsoons peaking at 100,000 years and diminishing in the periods in between.

The team found evidence for a period of global cooling that preceded the onset of the monsoon.

Specifically, they found that during El Niño Modoki events, when drought was occurring in central India, the mineral chemistry suggested more localized storm events occurred above the cave, while during the non-El Niño periods, the water that seeped into the cave had traveled much farther before it fell, which is the typical monsoon pattern.

The Southwest Monsoon brought just 82 percent of the long - term (1951 - 2000) average rainfall to India for the period June 1 to August 27.

The Indian monsoon is a period of intense rainfall that more than a billion people rely on to bring rains to farmland.

In Indonesia, meanwhile, the annual monsoon rains are becoming more intense over shorter periods, often knocking the flowers off the cacao trees, thereby preventing pod formation.

The development of active freshwater systems during these periods corresponds with monsoon intensity increases during insolation maxima, suggesting that humid periods in Arabia were not confined to eccentricity - paced deglaciations, and providing paleoenvironmental support for multiple windows of opportunity for dispersal out of Africa during the late Pleistocene.

Based on a summer monsoon index derived from MSLP gradients between land and ocean in the East Asian region, Guo et al. (2003) found a systematic reduction in the East Asian summer monsoon during 1951 to 2000, with a stronger monsoon dominant in the first half of the period and a weaker monsoon prevailing in the second half (Figure 3.35).

When the equatorial central and eastern Pacific is in a decadal warm period, summer monsoon rainfall is stronger in the Yangtze River valley but weaker in North China.

Re 92 and 105: First I just want to reitterate more generally what 105 said — Milankovitch cycles have had climate signals, in ice ages or otherwise, — well probably ever since the Moon formed, although the signal from times past will not always reach us, but I've read of evidence of Milankovitch precession cycle forcing of monsoons in lakes in Pangea (PS over geologic time the periods of some of the Milankovitch cycles have changed as the Moon recedes from the Earth due to tides).

High resolution characterization of the Indian monsoon over the last glacial period from Bitoo Cave, northern IndiaHigh resolution characterization of the Indian monsoon over the last glacial period from Bitoo Cave, northern India Gayatri Kathayat, Hai Cheng, Ashish Sinha, R. L. Edwards

The very humid monsoon season lasts from October to March, when daily rainfall and low cloud can reduce all visibility for prolonged periods — not great for sightseeing!

One thing I will recommend is to book popular attractions in advance, particularly if you're travelling during holiday periods, long - weekends, school holidays or if there is weather related issues to contend with (snow, cyclones, monsoons).

There may be a reduction in visibility during the October to November period when monsoon winds and swells can be present.

As the northeast monsoon presides over a wet season that lasts from May to October, it provides a noticeable contrast of the period between November and April, when the sun shines for hours each day and the dry season draws holiday makers from across the globe.

This has knocked about 171 megawatts of power generation from the grid and is projected to cause at least six hours of daily load shedding during the monsoon season — Nepal's peak power producing period.

During the period 1992 - 2000, the average sea - surface temperature of the Indian Ocean increased by approximately 0.25 Celsius, this may be the cause of an increased monsoon strength here (or more hurricanes on other places)...

So a period (of three months say) that includes the monsoon will show average temperatures that are dampened by the presence of the monsoon and I think I'm correct in guessing that this would show up as an anomaly within your iid null hypothesis.

We are, for example, working with farmers in the mid-hills on diversification of crop production to show them that instead of making 5,000 rupees from a half hectare of maize in monsoon season they can generate 130,000 rupees from best - practice irrigated vegetable farming during the same period.

They have also found that there is substantial variability within the monsoon season, including fluctuations between periods of heavy rainfall (wet spells) and low rainfall (dry spells).

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 repperiod 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 repPeriod», 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.

Similarly, a colder climate with generally decreased humidity q O could be closer to the critical threshold, which might be the reason for less - stable monsoon circulations during glacial periods.

Our monopolist will have definitive explanations for the Younger Dryas, the 2200 BC cooling / drought, the great monsoon failures of eg 1770s, 1790s, 1870s, the great pluvials of eg Genghis Khan period, Peru AD 1100... and all other major climate shifts within the last few thousand years.

A new study using a high - resolution stalagmite record from Australia with cave sites in southern China reveal a close coupling of monsoon rainfall on both continents, with numerous synchronous pluvial and drought periods, suggesting that the tropical rain belt expanded and contracted numerous times at multidecadal to centennial scales.

The spaceâ $ «time structure of the active and break periods of the Indian monsoon has been studied using 70 - yr - long high - resolution gridded daily rainfall data over India.

Sontakke and Singh (The Holocene 6, 315 - 31, 1996) developed instrumental period summer monsoon (June - September total) rainfall series (1813 - 1995) for six homogeneous zones and all of India using 306 raingauge stations.

Near the end of the green Sahara periods, the intertropical Convergence Zone moved southwards and summer monsoons weakened.

The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.

Their analysis revealed a close coupling of monsoon rainfall on both continents, with numerous synchronous pluvial and drought periods, suggesting that the tropical rain belt expanded and contracted numerous times at multidecadal to centennial scales.

«The intensity of the Indian monsoon is found to have decreased during periods of solar minima during the last millennium.

Masters's column then delves into specific events from around the globe: extremely low Arctic ice and rapid melting in Greenland; a radical shift from El Nino to La Nina; an Amazonian drought; a bizarre period for tropical cyclones and monsoons; floods, heat waves, record rainfalls across the world; the strongest non-coastal storm in U.S. history; and a long list of countries that set record high temperatures.

Dongge cave stalagmite D shows at 8.2 kyr the usual Asian monsoon weakening that takes place during periods of low solar activity.

«Climate change could influence monsoon dynamics and cause lower summer precipitation, a delay to the start of the monsoon season and longer breaks between the rainy periods.»

I'd be extra careful of sending India back to any of those periods of major monsoon failure (1770s, 1630s etc etc)

Monsoons have been of greater and lesser intensity since the last ice age with a particular period of frequency several thousand years ago.

Summary: The study found that unusually dry periods of little rainfall from India's summer monsoons mostly occurred during periods of lower solar intensity.

During an active phase of the monsoon through July 2010, three periods of intense rainfall covered north and northwest Pakistan.

Heavy monsoon rains exceeded 10 inches in some locations over the period July 27 - 30.

On the other hand, the fact that Arizona averages less than 13 inches of rain per year, most of which comes during the short period of the annual monsoon, also opens homeowners in Arizona to a unique threat that they need to address through homeowner's insurance: wildfires.