Sentences with phrase «of less rainfall»

This should melt the glaciers even faster, and might bring the additional problem of less rainfall because of climatic changes.

About 50 years after installing the panels, India and eastern Australia, for example, get warmer because of less rainfall, and the northwestern United States gets warmer because of wind pattern changes.

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He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

Less than 5 % of agriculture on the continent is irrigated, and rainfall can be absent for weeks on end in some countries.

Because Irma will be moving steadily northward once it makes its turn, rainfall amounts will be far less than the top totals of 40» — 50» recorded in slow - moving Hurricane Harvey.

One really interesting, unforeseen point that has emerged is the factor of interchangeable weather, and how the Halo is making rainfall less obvious to the driver by deflecting water droplets away from the driver's visor.

The winter has been remarkably dry through much of the UK, with less rainfall than in the months preceding the severe drought of 1976, which triggered water rationing and wild fires.

Parts of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, meanwhile, could see 21 consecutive days of less than 1 millimeter of rainfall.

New research predicts that by the middle of the century annual rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.

The edge of the Namib Desert, where the rings form, is a dry, sandy place that sees less than 100 millimeters of rainfall each year.

Deserts are typically defined by low average annual rainfall — usually 100 millimeters (less than 4 inches) of rain per year or less.

Interestingly, the study shows that there is a long - term decline in heavy rainfall events (greater than 25 mm / h) and an associated increase in the number of smaller storms each delivering less rainfall.

Colin Kelley of the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his colleagues analysed Syrian weather data since 1931, and found steadily less winter rainfall, which is crucial for crops, and higher temperatures, which dry soils faster.

On a sprawling roof that covers most of a city block a kind of park has been laid, sucking up carbon dioxide and other air pollution, filtering rainfall, making it less acidic.

Considered the driest place on Earth, the Atacama Desert receives less than 1 to 2 mm of rainfall each year.

The bureau has also been practicing a less well - honed strategy that involves overseeding the clouds to actually prevent rainfall; this technique increases the number of ice crystals in a cloud but decreases their mean size, which makes them less likely to fall as rain.

There have been significant regional trends in rainfall with the northern, eastern and southern parts of the continent receiving greater rainfall and the western region receiving less.

My research indicates that the Siberian peat moss, Arctic tundra, and methal hydrates (frozen methane at the bottom of the ocean) all have an excellent chance of melting and releasing their stored co2.Recent methane concentration figures also hit the news last week, and methane has increased after a long time being steady.The forests of north america are drying out and are very susceptible to massive insect infestations and wildfires, and the massive die offs - 25 % of total forests, have begun.And, the most recent stories on the Amazon forecast that with the change in rainfall patterns one third of the Amazon will dry and turn to grassland, thereby creating a domino cascade effect for the rest of the Amazon.With co2 levels risng faster now that the oceans have reached carrying capacity, the oceans having become also more acidic, and the looming threat of a North Atlanic current shutdown (note the recent terrible news on salinity upwelling levels off Greenland,) and the change in cold water upwellings, leading to far less biomass for the fish to feed upon, all lead to the conclusion we may not have to worry about NASA completing its inventory of near earth objects greater than 140 meters across by 2026 (Recent Benjamin Dean astronomy lecture here in San Francisco).

About half of India received normal rainfall, while the other half received deficient rainfall (less than 80 percent of average).

And the less common and more extreme the hot extreme or heavy rainfall event, the more this can be blamed on human activity, such as the burning of fossil fuels.

Over the past few years, many parts of the country has had less rainfall than in the past.

He also warned of an increase in record - breaking, intense rainfall, such as the Houston downpour in April that dropped four months worth of rain in less than 24 hours.

The «land of smiles» has a tropical climate with rainy and dry seasons, and many consider the best time to visit between November and February, when the temperatures are not too hot, and there is less rainfall than at other times.

Annual rainfall is about 14» per year but depending upon the topographical features of a particular location, rainfall on the islands might range from less than 10 inches to more than 20 inches annually.

The climate of the California Channel Islands is semi-arid, and though rainfall amounts differ among islands the average rainfall across all islands is less than six inches per year.

The Valley of the Sun celebrates bright and sunny days year round, with an average annual rainfall of less than 7 inches (18 centimetres).

Even though the sea is certainly warm enough for swimming at this time of year, the intense rainfall might make the sunshine less enjoyable.

Despite the rainfall and chance of snow, Paris is affected by foggy conditions on less than one day each April.

Over the course of an average February, New York is subject to 57mm / 2 inches of rainfall divided between nine rainy days and six snowy days — that's quite a lot less than last month.

In August, Cancun receives more rainfall than it does in July, although it's still less than the resort experiences in September, which is the wettest month of the year.

Temperatures typically range in the 70s and 80s and yield less than a half - inch of rainfall.

Being in the tropics, many visitors would expect to see rainforest, but Magnetic Island, having considerably less rainfall than the wet tropics slightly further north and the Whitsundays slightly further south, is typical of the dry tropics.

Most recently, the artist exhibited in Dreamers Awake at White Cube, London, 99 Cents or Less at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Sticky Fingers at Arsenal Contemporary, and The Sun and the Rainfall II at Galleria Zero, Milan.

Farming is going to be a lot more productive with less frosts, more rainfall, warmer weather and greater concentrations of CO2.

It is interesting how well the low - plankton areas of the oceans correspond to the ocean areas that ldeo projection predicts will see less rainfall.

Most TS losses occur from the storm surge, the water pushed over the land, or inland flooding caused by huge amounts of rainfall often generated by lesser tropical storms hung up over coastlines.

My own analysis for my neck - of - the - woods (slightly less definite due to the data from the local weather station having stalled in May 2013 — probably due to spending cuts)-- February saw record rainfall, 38 % above the previous 55 - year February maximum and 3.35 sd above the February mean.

WHEREAS Statewide rainfall has been below normal in 2007 and 2008, with many Southern California communities receiving only 20 percent of normal rainfall in 2007, and Northern California this year experiencing the driest spring on record with most communities receiving less than 20 percent of normal rainfall from March through May; and

For decades, it has been a given that heavy rainfall on steep mountain slopes is likely to chemically weather the exposed rock and precipitate a chemical reaction that ends with carbonate minerals on the ground and with less of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.

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 reported.

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Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Typically increases in total rainfall over India may be in the region of 5 - 10 %, although some climate models suggest more and some less.

Short intense bursts of rainfall will give you flash flooding in a small catchment — a big storm front with less intense average rainfall will give major flooding in large catchments.

They can't even predict the next decade, much less ten decades; despite tuning they only poorly replicate the historical climate; their equations can't be shown to converge; the number of tunable parameters is far too large for comfort; they show absolutely no skill at regional scales; their results for things they are not tuned to replicate (e.g. rainfall) are abysmal — in short they are glorified Tinkertoy ™ models which have one common characteristic... they don't work well.

Part way there, but no quantitation yet: of the 3.77 W / m ^ 2 radiated back dowwnard, most goes to increased rate of evaporation of the water at the surface, and much less goes to increased mean temp increase at the surface; hence increased rate of non-radiative transfer of heat from surface to upper atmosphere, slight increase in rainfall as hydrological cycle is faster, and slight increase in cloud cover.

Increasing drought and low rainfall are leading many rice farmers in India's plateau region of Odisha to start cultivating a crop that requires less water, has lower input costs and earns farmers grea...

That means that you have a 50 % chance of less than median rainfall.

Although Wilks (1999) shows that the gamma distribution under some circumstances can underestimate the probability of the highest rainfall amounts, Groisman et al. (1999) applied the distribution to the upper 5 and 10 percentiles of the distribution which are less subject to underestimation.

As for rainfall, in the simplest models, lowered temperatures decrease evaporation of water from the surface into the air; and less water vapor translates to less rain.