Sentences with phrase «of aridity»

req'd) published research that «predicted a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest» — levels of aridity comparable to the 1930s Dust Bowl would stretch from Kansas to California.

The study, published in the journal Nature Scientific Reports, looked at how natural climatic forces contributed to centuries - long and even millennia - long periods of aridity in California during the past 10,000 years.

My question is, is there any research that gives an estimate as to the potential climatic effect of CO2 via the stimulation of plant growth and increased plant tolerance of aridity in a post-industrial, doubled CO2 atmosphere?

...» a permanent drought by 2050 throughout the Southwest» — levels of aridity comparable to the 1930s Dust Bowl would stretch from Kansas to California.

If these models are correct, the levels of aridity of the recent multiyear drought, or the Dust Bowl and 1950s droughts, will, within the coming years to decades, become the new climatology of the American Southwest.

«This agrees with our results from DNA, which indicate that modern desert - living bandicoot groups pre-date the onset of aridity by as much as 40 million years,» says Prof. Westerman.

«This agrees with our results from DNA, which indicate that modern desert - living bandicoot groups pre-date the onset of aridity by as much as 40 million years.»

The authors conclude: «Ultimately, the consistency of our results suggests an exceptionally high risk of a multidecadal megadrought occurring over the Central Plains and Southwest regions during the late 21st century, a level of aridity exceeding even the persistent megadroughts that characterised the Medieval era.»

At a personal level the prayer of the Divine Office also strengthens the virgin in her own seeking of Christ by uniting her with the whole Church, and that discipline and objective reality of the Office will sustain her in the inevitable times of aridity in her spiritual life.

It is an averment of the aridity of ideological exactitude of its political leadership.

By July, the animals will be crowding round shrunken rivers and billabongs, the abundance of water replaced by an abundance of aridity — and more controversially, fire and smoke.

Climate change involves an increase of aridity and evaporative rates.

But Stringer and Galway - Witham add that the region may have proved a difficult area to thrive in long term: «There were severe periods of aridity before and after this time, meaning that the region was probably more often a «boulevard of broken dreams» than a stable haven for early humans.»

Representing Chile at the 55th International Art Exhibition — la Biennale di Venezia in its temporary pavilion situated in the Arsenale, Jaar's evocative installation Venezia, Venezia guides visitors along an arching passage»» like one of Venice's iconic bridges»» of striking visual and somatic encounters of aridity and liquidity.

While Midwest states have experienced ever more flooding over the last 50 years, the regions already suffering from extremes of aridity are being warned to expect megadroughts worse than any conditions in the last 1,000 years.

The warming trends over the drylands are twice as great as those over the humid regions, which once again amplifies the pattern of aridity.

While there is evidence of a persistent relationship between periods of aridity during the mid-Holocene and the MCA, as both are associated with increases in radiation and cooler SST in the eastern Pacific [64], climate simulations suggest that current forcing by increased GHG may produce an opposite oceanic response in the future [65].

This will create what the study calls «a level of aridity exceeding even the persistent megadroughts that characterized the Medieval era.»

During intense periods of aridity, monsoon rains would have been light and drinking water in short supply.

Temperatures will rise, and so will levels of aridity.

Bloom's mathematical model was used to infer lake salinity and depth, which could then be used to determine periods of aridity, which was instrumental in determining California drought records for the past 10,000 years.