Sentences with phrase «more arid»

For example, buildings located in more arid areas might receive extra credits for water conservation.

2007/03/26: Science: Model Projections of an Imminent Transition to a More Arid Climate in Southwestern North America by Richard Seager et al..

The United States could see a 10 - degree temperature rise by the end of the century and a more arid south and west, Overpeck said.

The findings of a new study, appearing in Science, show that there is a broad consensus amongst climate models that this region will dry significantly in the 21st Century and that the transition to a more arid climate may already be underway.

But in more arid regions, such as in the southwestern United States or the Middle East, the loss of irrigation water means the end of agriculture.

As the surface began warming into a drier atmosphere, evaporation would slowly increase, and drought - prone areas would become even more arid.

=========================================== I thought it was established, through pollen and plant remains, that the last glaciation and Younger Dryas were much more arid than now, and the Holocene Optimum warmer and more humid.

Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America

If my forecast cooling actually occurs the policy of CO2 emission reduction will add to the increasing stress on global food production caused by a cooling and generally more arid climate.

on New abrupt climate change report says greater sea level rise and more arid U.S. Southwest likely

[8] R. Seager et al., «Model projections of an imminent transition to a more arid climate in southwestern North America,» Science, vol.

Even within California, these premiums varied based on the local climate, with hotter, more arid areas fetching higher prices on green homes.

The climate experts had predicted that this region of Africa would be come more arid, with a greater frequency of droughts due to global warming making it an unlivable area.

As the Hadley Cell expands, dry air flowing from the tropics falls in the subtropics creating regions that are more arid.

As aquifers are depleted and irrigation wells go dry, farmers either revert to low - yield dryland farming or, in the more arid regions, abandon farming altogether.

The 100th meridian west (solid line) has long been considered the divide between the relatively moist eastern United States and the more arid West.

The millions who raise livestock in more arid areas of Africa are particularly vulnerable to extreme weather, as the current drought affecting Somalia and Kenya demonstrates.

The chart's green curve indicates that those periods with less precipitation (i.e. droughts) are more common when cooler temps prevail - more arid conditions, with less food production make people (and societies) rather restless.

Actually, civilization «collapse» in the Holocene is often related to changes in precipitation (to more arid conditions) rather than temperature:

This drought is consistent with early signatures of a transition to more arid midlatitude conditions, as projected by several climate models.

Los Cabos is more arid, with a year round average air temp of around 25 - 28 degrees.

The viewpoints are well worth the trek and you may just wonder if you are really in the Pacific Northwest and not in some other more arid climate.

Herps from temperate or more arid environments (bearded dragons, leopard geckos and cornsnakes) do best on bedding that remains dry.

I've lived my entire 60 years in Idaho, first in the more arid southern part of the state, then in verdant Northern Idaho where we live now on our Almost Heaven Ranch.

As the region became more arid, various native tribes such as Shoshone, Southern Paiute and Mojave moved in.

««The arid lands of southwestern North America will imminently become even more arid as a result of human - induced climate change just at the time that population growth is increasing demand for water, most of which is still used by agriculture,» said Richard Seager, Senior Research Scientist at the Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory and one of the lead authors of the study.

The United States could see a 10 - degree temperature rise by the end of the century and a more arid south and west, Overpeck said.

Increased mortality, although may be driven by indirect effects; patterns of mortality will be dependent on initial stand and local site conditions, but more arid regions more susceptible

Although not the driest month of the year, September is usually much more arid, with average total precipitation of 1.61 inches.

«Not much is known about what happens in transitional savanna ecosystems that are located between more arid and wetter climate zones.»

The slowly rotating version of Earth has climate zones very different from actual Earth — the Sahara desert has turned into a rain forest, and the northern U.S. and Canada have become more arid like Los Angeles.

The more arid the vegetation — or fuels in the scientific literature — the more area burned and the more severe the fires tend to be.

The drier — or more arid — the vegetation is, the larger the resulting area that burns and the more severe the fires can be.

East of the Continental Divide, continental air masses dominate and the climate is generally more arid.

Present - day Mars is a frozen desert, colder and more arid than Antarctica, and scientists are fairly sure it's been that way for at least the last 3 billion years.

Recently published paleoclimate data show that conditions in the Near East became more arid during the latter half of the 7th century BC.

Though some speculation is required here, there is general agreement that by the early Pleistocene, around 2 million years ago, the African habitat of our ancestor Homo erectus was much more arid than before, and food was harder to come by.

C4 plants, such as corn and sugarcane, are better able to survive hotter, more arid climates.

In some regions, the climate will become more arid, resulting in less vegetation in forests, with the end result being less fuel.

«Climate change is lumpy,» says Beissinger, who is also studying more arid sites such as Death Valley, Mojave and Joshua Tree.

That shift would happen in concert with the longstanding expectation for already wet areas to see more rain and for dry ones to become more arid.

Not much is known about what happens in these transitional savanna ecosystems located between more arid and wetter climate zones, information critical to their management,» said lead author J. Tyler Fox, who earned his doctorate in fish and wildlife conservation in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment in 2016.

The team warns that if the Middle East becomes more arid in the long term due to climate change, extreme dust storms may become more common, and their impact unavoidable.

This global trend radically transformed landscapes in Southwestern Europe, which became increasingly more arid.

This may have been an adaptation to new environments and endurance hunting, as early Homo species left the forests and moved on to more arid African savannahs,» says lead author Dr Manuel Will from Cambridge's Department of Archaeology, and a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College.

The gift of the Spirit is the presence of divine life in humans, inspiring us to be more arid more god - like, loving one another and motivated towards love and social justice.

Chhatre wants to bring fog harvesting to rural communities in higher - altitude areas and those with more arid climates, allowing them to have clean water without having to travel great distances.

At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collapsing.

Not exact matches

The slogan, «Forward banking», which I found arid and flat alongside ING Direct, now seems more at home.

It is instead a pure, ultimate, and unconditioned activity, arid appears to be somewhat ineffable: «it can not be characterized because all characters are more special than itself» (PR 47).