Sentences with phrase «of precipitation records»

«We didn't have the potential to develop these kinds of precipitation records for most of the world, until now.

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Keep a journal and record the type and amounts of precipitation your area receives.

Department of Environmental Conservation Commissioner Basil Seggos said, «With increased precipitation and rapid snow melt, record water flows through major tributaries upstream and downstream of the lake, water is high throughout the Great Lakes system.

The board issued a statement late last week saying that months of precipitation produced the highest recorded water levels on Lake Ontario since records were kept over the last 100 years.

«This is one of the most representative records of precipitation changes in the eastern Pacific, and it goes a good way toward explaining seasonal tropical rain band and El Niño dynamics,» said first author Daniel Nelson, who did the research for his UW doctorate in oceanography.

For the last 20 years, the Mercury Deposition Network has recorded mercury content of precipitation across the United States.

Boersma and Rebstock looked at the cause of every recorded chick mortality in an Argentinian colony of Magellanic penguins, over a nearly 30 - year period, and compared these with changes in temperature and precipitation over the same time.

The flooding continued the heavy precipitation trend of 2010, which was the wettest year on record.

«The winter discharge of the Tanana River has increased since the record keeping began in the»70s, but there are no increasing trends in precipitation,» she said.

The team studied the records of temperature, cool - season precipitation and stream flow for the years 1906 to 2012.

Latvia reported its fifth wettest August on record and second wettest for the 21st century, receiving 178 percent of the country's long - term average precipitation.

In France, even with a drier than average June, total summer (June - August) precipitation was more than 140 percent of average, marking one of the 10 wettest summers since national records began in 1959.

Using long - term temperature and precipitation records from 1870 to 2002, Aiguo Dai of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and colleagues calculated the Palmer index for locations around the world in which it is not routinely used.

Stalagmites and stalactites — the stony projections that grow from the cave floor and ceiling, respectively — carry a record of precipitation because they grow as a result of dripping water.

The concentration of these magnetic minerals is enhanced with increasing rainfall and can be used as a record of past precipitation history.

This way, scientists studied three variables (maximum temperature, minimum temperature and precipitation) in the Pyrenees in the period 1910 - 2013; «this is one of the most extensive climate records to date for this study area,» stresses Sigró.

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Trenberth points to disconcerting discrepancies and spurious variations in records, including those of precipitation and solar radiation, derived from different satellite sensors.

Isotopic analysis of the guano pile in the M?gurici Cave resulted in a near annual record of winter precipitation for the region.

Using historical records of precipitation, a relationship between winter precipitation and NAO phases was established.

To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical Rainfall Measurement Mission — to analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.

The records showed that precipitation and temperature patterns had hardly fluctuated during the period, meaning that the amount of water flowing into the lake from nearby streams is likely the same today as it was in 1847.

As indicated by the June precipitation percentiles map below, the eastern United States and much of India were much wetter than average, with record rainfall across portions of India.

Record precipitation was also observed in part of central North America and in eastern Europe around Moldova and the Ukraine.

Looking at historical records of drought in California, he and his colleagues found that a lack of precipitation in itself wasn't sufficient to set up a drought; that dryness had to overlap with unusually warm temperatures.

The August CONUS precipitation total was slightly below average and ranked in the driest third of the historical record.

The end of summer in the Southern Hemisphere was a dry one for Australia, with February receiving just 49 percent of average monthly precipitation, marking the country's 11th driest February on record.

Texas had its wettest spring on record with 223 percent of average precipitation.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

December rounded out the year with a precipitation total of 1.65 inches, 1.42 inch below average, the fourth driest such month on record.

The coverage of extreme precipitation totals and warm temperatures contributed to the fourth highest U.S. Climate Extremes Index in the 106 - year record for the CONUS.

Austria recorded only 35 percent of normal precipitation in August 2015, marking its driest August since 1991.

The October precipitation total was 135 percent of average and the 13th wettest on record.

Over the 121 - year period of record, precipitation across the CONUS has increased at an average rate of 0.16 inch per decade.

The 3 - month average CONUS precipitation of 6.15 inches was 0.64 inch below average and the 29th driest on record.

By the end of the year, that pattern had flipped, with record and near - record temperatures across most of the East and near - to below - average temperatures for much of the West, associated with much needed above average precipitation across the region.

With precipitation records dating back to 1947, May 2015 was the driest May on record for the country, with total average rainfall for the month just 25 percent of normal.

The wettest year on record for Alaska occurred in 1928 with 43.54 inches of precipitation.

McCall, Idaho, observed 7.69 in (195 mm) precipitation, 230 % of normal, the 4th wettest December since records began in 1905.

In the Great Basin, Ely, Nevada, logged 1.38 in (35 mm) of precipitation this month, 234 % of normal, 12th wettest since records began in 1888.

«The proxy records used in this study appear to contradict other studies that have used direct observations of precipitation from rain gauges... All else being equal, I would trust direct rainfall measurements over proxy records.»

According to Ghosh, the fast growth rate of these snails makes them «ideal candidate [s] to record high - frequency changes in the monsoon precipitation.»

The shells of a large, invasive snail in India can provide exceptionally fine grained records of past precipitation in the region, a new study finds.

The cooling clouds and precipitation that come with annual return of the North American monsoon promise to break the record heat in the Southwest and temper things a bit (relatively speaking anyways) through the rest summer.

Temperature and precipitation data were gathered for each market's period of record during meteorological summer.

Moreover, in monsooon regions proxy records tend to be highly seasonally biased (e.g. in South America they record precipitation only a couple months and the rest of the year is not retained).

On top of that, temperatures have been extremely warm — the winter of 2014 - 2015 was the hottest on record for California — which meant that what precipitation did fall often did so as rain and not snow.

Triple water.isotopologue record from WAIS Divide, Antarctica: controls on glacial - interglacial changes in 17Oexcess of precipitation.

To assess Montana's historical climate, we evaluated temperature and precipitation trends since the mid-20th century by using standard statistical methods to analyze records of temperature and precipitation.

July 4, 2017 • Fire officials warn that an abundance of fresh brush, the result of record - setting precipitation this winter in California and the Southwest, could provide plenty of fuel for wildfires this summer.