Climatologists have already warned
of a lack of rainfall associated with the global warming phenomena, but perhaps never before has the scale of a damage that results been measured so close to home.
The researchers examined the drought in terms
of lack of rainfall, water availability, and water demand.
Not exact matches
It's our
lack of planning that changes the
rainfall, that means more severe storms and worse flooding.
2016 was a year
of contrasts, promising a superb vintage, characterized by uniform flowering at the origin
of good pollination, substantial
lack of rainfall during the summer combined with abundant sunshine and evenly - occurring veraison.
Because deforestation also contributes to a
lack of rainfall, sustainable farming methods will — one expects — become more and more important to the Tanzanian coffee industry.
However, due to changing
rainfall, storm, and drought patterns and intensities, an onslaught from coffee rust — a fungus that decimates coffee plants — and a
lack of rural extension services, income from coffee is usually not enough.
The drought in California does not appear to have had a major effect on this years» crop, but many fear that continuing
lack of rainfall could have a large impact on 2015 results.
Last month, I opined about barren ski slopes,
lack of rainfall and a «False Spring».
The researchers found another subtlety in the Amazon's response to
rainfall, which has led to new insights on a question under debate: Are seasonal changes in plant growth more limited by
lack of sunlight or
lack of water?
Lack of rainfall in recent months has left soils completely dry and unable to release moisture that would take up heat from the air through evaporation.
Elders blamed recent failures
of rainfall on a
lack of adherence to traditional beliefs by younger generations.
This is because future arid cities will remain water - limited due to the
lack of permeable surfaces in cities, while their rural neighbors are projected to be no longer «dry» due to higher
rainfall.
They also concluded that the
lack of rainfall in southeast Brazil in 2014 and 2015 while unusual was not unprecedented, with similar dry periods occurring before, with the most recent in 2001.
The
lack of rainfall does not help the situation.
A
lack of rainfall during drought years causes large sections
of the lush canopy to dry out and die.
Because
of low
rainfall and
lack of irrigation infrastructure, water management is often not an option for rainfed lowland rice farmers.
Rising temperatures, a
lack of rainfall and fewer storms allow pollution to gather and stagnate, and that in turn could have detrimental effects on public health.
With year - round temperatures
of around 26 degrees, a Sahara breeze and
lack of rainfall, this island is the ultimate escape.
If this is the NYT article you are thinking
of http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/07/science/earth/extreme-heat-is-covering-more-
of-the-earth-a-study-says.html then Hoerling apparently has not read the paper he in commenting on since «Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a
lack of rainfall, with heat waves.»
It is estimated that more than 62 thousand families have been affected by the
lack of rainfall with over half the municipalities in the region having enacted a state
of emergency.
We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history
of Heinrich events (huge discharges
of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift
of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal
rainfall in at least some parts
of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases
of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that
lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions
of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.
This drought has many
of the attributes
of past historical droughts over the region — widespread
lack of storms and
rainfall that would normally enter the region from the Pacific with considerable frequency.
«In summary, the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (
lack of rainfall) since the middle
of the 20th century.»
The report, titled Climate Change in Pakistan, forecast low agricultural productivity from
lack of water for irrigation and erratic
rainfall.
The
lack of rainfall in October and November came as a blow to farmers because September — just before the planting season — was tantalizingly wet.
Prior to that time, Lake Victoria had dried up for
lack of sufficient
rainfall; abruptly, it got enough rain once again.
A drought is a prolonged, abnormally dry period during which there is not enough water to meet the needs
of people, animals, and plants.5 Drought is not simply the absence
of rainfall — it also includes a
lack of surface moisture and irrigation water at critical points in the growing season for crops.
Drought always causes higher temperatures, but curiously they also reported that given the
lack of rainfall the high temperatures were not as high as expected writing, «The scatter plot shows that 2012 was the driest summer in the historical record, though the temperature anomaly
of +2 °C was exceeded by two prior summers — 1934 and 1936.
Dr. Hoerling contended that Dr. Hansen's new paper confuses drought, caused primarily by a
lack of rainfall, with heat waves.
Walsh says the study does not address whether the scenario
of heavier tropical and subtropical
rainfall moving northward will impact the Arctic and subarctic — perhaps because
of a
lack of data.
There's been some confusion about the human influence on the drought because two studies published this year didn't find a connection to the
lack of rainfall.
Drought is primarily driven by a
lack of rainfall, but warmer temperatures can exacerbate drought impacts by increasing evaporation.
Even modest changes in seasonality
of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they
lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.
In terms
of practical interest (as opposed to scientific interest) the main concerns relate to out - 0f - season
rainfall,
lack of seasonal
rainfall (drought) and floods.
For example, people sometimes refer to trends /
lack of trend in the average annual
rainfall for Australia, which has several climate zones.
Cellulosic ethanol proponents have pushed the idea
of using farm waste as a way to boost biofuel production without impacting food crops, but such conversion may carry a hidden cost in areas with insufficient
rainfall or
lacking irrigation, warns a soil scientist from Washington State University.
Drought occurs when there is a
lack of rainfall over a long period
of time, resulting in water shortages for groups
of people, activities or the environment.
Panel data models indicate that excess and
lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns» health (temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects).
There are indication that some very important regions are likely to suffer from
lack of rainfall.
Firstly remember that while the drought is caused by
lack of rainfall, famine is man - made.
the current assessment concludes that there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global - scale observed trend in drought or dryness (
lack of rainfall) since the middle
of the 20th century, owing to
lack of direct observations, geographical inconsistencies in the trends, and dependencies
of inferred trends on the index choice.
This comes in terms
of the
lack of water from glacial melt, or changes in disease vectors, or
rainfall patterns, or the lodge pole pine being killed off by beetles in million - acre swaths.
According to the Texas Forest Service, as many as 500 million trees in the state — roughly 10 percent
of the forests there — have been killed within the last year alone as a result
of 2011's bizarre
lack of rainfall.
It's a simple
lack of rainfall and runoff.
However, back in the MDB — Cai and Cowan's paper has provided some evidence that reductions in
rainfall alone are not fully responsible for the
lack of runoff with high drought temperatures being a contributing factor.