Sentences with phrase «of deep drought»

Not exact matches

In retrospect agriculture in Australia was always going to be challenging and problematic, given the country's relative lack of good, deep soils, together with its harsh climate and propensity for drought and floods.

Kinda makes sense though, the only reason people are asking for another CDM is because we all fear the possibility of injury to coquelin and know flamini is usless, beilick is inexperienced so it begs the question what happens if an injury where to occur, but wîth how many midfielders we have in the squad i think it could allow us to change a tactical approach and potentially experiment with people like Ramsey and Wishere potentially playing a deeper role??? But the striker is a must as i mentioned earlier Giroud went 8 games without scoring a goal and none of the other strikers stepped up to the plate, we cant have a drought of goals when your the quest for titles...

Deep beneath the bleached - out, dusty surface of the drought - stricken West is a stash of water sequestered between layers of rock and sometimes built up over centuries.

It turns out that the steady dripping of water deep underground can reveal a surprising amount of information about the constantly changing cycles of heat and cold, precipitation and drought in the turbulent atmosphere above.

But if scientists are able to gain a deeper understanding of which dust particles best form ice and which don't, they may be able to maximize precipitation when clouds do form and stave off future droughts like the one that has beset California recently (ClimateWire, Aug. 4).

Specifically, these results predict a loss of 15 to 30 per cent of temperate grasslands by the end of the century with a substantial increase in deep soil drought conditions.

The scientists concluded that substrate depth was the most significant factor that improved growth and drought resistance of Manilagrass; the deeper substrate resulted in improved drought tolerance when compared with the shallow substrate.

The most obvious difference between this year and that event, clearly visible in the animation, is the «blob» of warm water off the west coast of North America, a symptom of the relentless high pressure pattern that has kept the West hot and dry over much of the last few years and led to the deep drought in California.

Deep learning is like taking a long drought from a well of knowledge as opposed to only sipping from many different wells.

On the contrary, roughly 80 percent of HOT is devoted to on - the - ground reporting that focuses on solutions — not just the relatively well known options for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and otherwise limiting global warming, but especially the related but much less recognized imperative of preparing our societies for the many significant climate impacts (e.g., stronger storms, deeper droughts, harsher heat waves, etc.,) that, alas, are now unavoidable over the years ahead.

The only way to survive such prolonged and deep droughts is to desalinate the ocean water to the west of both West Africa and the US Southwest.

With 90 percent of New Mexico currently in extreme or exceptional drought, the harshest categories in the U.S. Drought Monitor, farmers are forced to go to extremes for water, including paying up to $ 45,000 to drill a well «down as much as 91 meters (300 feet), nearly five times deeper than before the drought.»

No wonder: Texas, along with much of the deep South, has been experiencing extreme or exceptional drought.

By Peter Gleick, President December 8, 2014 Over the past three years (and indeed, for 10 of the past 14 years) California has experienced a particularly deep drought.

The groundwater table in the Central Valley has been declining to such a degree that it requires a deeper understanding of the temporal dynamics of drought as well as their dependence on regional climate variability and change.

And during a drought, any deep groundwater discharge will likely be attributed to the lack of rain.

Allow me to drill down deeper in the definition of drought.

Reconstructions of California climate suggest that meteorological droughts lasting multiple decades are not uncommon over the past 1000 years, while there is evidence that dry periods of even longer duration occurred in California's deeper geological past.

They are being battered by stronger storms, more destructive floods, deeper and longer droughts and disruptive switches in the seasonal timing of rain.

Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, who was at the conference Monday, joined others who have complained that the plan appears to be backsliding on commitments for deep cuts in carbon - dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gasses needed to avoid tipping into a danger zone of climate - related floods and droughts.

In 2010, an international team of researchers drilled almost 500 metres below the deepest part of the Dead Sea bed, to bring up evidence of a series of epic bygone droughts, when the trapped water evaporated to precipitate deep, dense beds of salts.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.

The drought atlases provide a much deeper understanding of natural climate processes than scientists have had to date, said Richard Seager, a coauthor of the paper and a climate modeler at Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory.

The boundary of the closed canopy forest with transitional forest or savanna (right) corresponds closely to 50 percent drought probability, consistent with the requirement to recharge deep soil reservoirs every 2 years as discussed by Nepstad et al. (2007).

There is also an increased upwelling of deep cold ocean waters and more intense uprising of surface air near South America, resulting in increasing numbers of drought occurrences, although fishermen reap benefits from the more nutrient - filled eastern Pacific waters.

Haiti's third consecutive year of drought, exacerbated by the global El Niño weather phenomenon, has driven people deeper into poverty and hunger, and doubled the severely food - insecure population, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said today.

Yes, drought (Dai 2010: Drought Under Global Warming for instance), floods, general bunching of rainfall into briefer, heavier rains, and how deep are Canadian soils?

«It is somewhat embarrassing for me to admit this, but part of the problem is that a small minority of my [scientist] colleagues, people who should know better, are feeding the extreme - weather / climate hype in the mistaken belief that by doing so they can encourage people to do the right thing — lessen their carbon footprint,» wrote Mass in a blog post, which derided attempts to connect the recent frequency of extreme weather events — superstorms, deep droughts, historically bad winters, etc. — to manmade climate change.

Had Australia any competent hydrologists giving counsel to policymakers, they may have created a far deeper and more robust infrastructure, one which could prevent drought at the same time as preventing flood, instead of a flimsy system of dams and reservoirs without redundancy.

Biochar and hugelkultur, planting deep - rooting trees in windbreaks, terracing, discouraging planting of shallow - rooting species, dredging, turning the watershed from canal to sponge, can produce such buffers, and they are preferrable in any event as they are more productive uses of land and create drought - tolerance.

Glaciers hundreds of metres deep across North America, global drought as evaporation slows to a trickle.

Tree rings do not accumulate when the tree dies due to drought, or after shifts in timing of first / last frost, or if bark beetle infestations surge, due to milder deep frost in winter (as is absolutely true across millions of evergreen forest acreage in the US West and Alaska).

There's the deep structural problems implied by such things as higher incidence of major drought and, perversely, major flooding and storms in the same regions.

Here in the southwest we are heading deeper into drought and looking at the potential of another hot, dry summer.