Sentences with phrase «of seasonal drought»

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But they also attribute the price fall to a seasonal rise in stock, after a drought of low listings earlier in the year.

Investors said they wanted to avoid the essential problem of seasonal conditions such as drought wiping out an entire year's agricultural earnings.

This was thought by some to be another seasonal myth describing the death and resurrection of the vegetation god, but the myth is not tied to an annual cycle and is much more concerned with the threat of periods of drought and the way to ensure the supply of the lifegiving water on which men, animals and all vegetation alike depend.

Frequencies of different seasonal patterns of drought stress are related to location effects on hybrid yields.

During more than a decade of observation, grapevines in Napa, Calif., and Bordeaux, France, never reached lethal levels of dehydration from seasonal drought, researchers report online January 31 in Science Advances.

The key result of the study is that with longer dry seasons and more intense seasonal drought, there is an overall negative effect on bird populations.

In some areas, where rain may be seasonal or intermittent, drought tolerance may be a greater consideration than tolerance of flooding.

Jorge Vazquez - Aguirre is in charge of the climatology working group at the National Meteorological Service of Mexico with operational duties related to climatic data, seasonal prediction, drought monitoring and climate services.

Data analyses have found an increase of drought intensity at many locations [130]--[131] The magnitude of change depends on the drought index employed [132], but soil moisture provides a good means to separate the effect of shifting seasonal precipitation and confirms an overall drought intensification [37].

In Texas, it is now being reported, indications are of many lost crops and lost beef production due to a drier regional climate (see graphic above for latest seasonal drought trend).

This year's California drought was the most recent iteration of this severe event featuring a ridiculously resilient high pressure ridge that has continued to rob California of much of its typical seasonal moisture.

As a summer seasonal park ranger at Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, I witnessed the impacts of this western drought.

Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southernUSA.Our results show that the current hiatus is part of natural climate variability, tied specifically to aLa - Nina - like decadal cooling.

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

Vines are becoming increasingly abundant in tropical forests as a result of climate change and severe seasonal drought and their rapid growth is harming trees and impacting carbon storage, a new study has revealed.

«The Amazon rainforest has already entered a dieback, in which the vicious cycle between land use (cattle ranching, logging), seasonal drought, and fire are rapidly degrading enormous swathes of rainforest each year.

With this tool, you can compare changes in monthly, seasonal, and annual variability of parameters such as temperature, precipitation, and a variety of drought indices.

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.

Data analyses have found an increase of drought intensity at many locations [130]--[131] The magnitude of change depends on the drought index employed [132], but soil moisture provides a good means to separate the effect of shifting seasonal precipitation and confirms an overall drought intensification [37].

Prior to joining PCIC Markus was a Hydrologic Modelling Scientist and Forecaster with the BC Ministry of Environment, River Forecast Centre, where he was engaged in the analysis of observed climate and hydrometric data and the application of various hydrologic models for flood, drought and seasonal streamflow forecasting.

This new prediction system shows the multi-year predictive skills of drought and wildfire conditions beyond the typical timescale of seasonal climate forecast models.

The Aleppo pine (Pinus halepensis Miller) forest in Yatir, Israel, is such an extreme case, with a mean annual precipitation of 285 mm and 6 — 8 months of continuous seasonal drought (Grünzweig et al. 2003, Rotenberg and Yakir 2010).

This low precipitation period, on top of the steady seasonal drought, permitted an extreme drought stress study that acknowledges the important role of climate extremes (rather than changes in the mean) in tree function (Reyer et al. 2012).

To address these challenges, we need to understand the physical mechanisms that drive the seasonal cycle of rainfall and trends such as the Sahel drought of the 1980s followed by recovery.

In India a marked seasonal alternation of rainfall and drought, caused by the monsoon, extends northward into latitudes where distinct temperature seasons also exist.

Known collectively as the El Niño Southern Oscillation, or ENSO, the changing seasonal phenomena known as El Niño and La Niña could lead to at least a doubling of extreme droughts and floods in California later this century.

In East Africa, climate change has amplified a chain of disasters: floods, extreme droughts, seasonal shifts and crop failure, animal diseases, water and fodder shortage, and social collapse.

Which is a bit strange considering a report from the European Environment Agency showing that temperatures in the Alps are increasing a twice rate of the global average with more droughts and greater seasonal variability in precipitation forecast.

Moreover, our simulation captures major seasonal and regional characteristics of the hiatus, including the intensified Walker circulation, the winter cooling in northwestern North America and the prolonged drought in the southern USA.

Floods, droughts, hurricanes, sea - level rise and seasonal unpredictability - hallmarks of climate change - are affecting people's rights to life, security, food, water, health and shelter in all corners of the world today.

The magnitude of change depends on the drought index employed, but soil moisture provides a good means to separate the effect of shifting seasonal precipitation and confirms an overall drought intensification.

PRUDENCE RCM outputs showed non-linear relationships between mean maximum temperature and indices of drought and heatwave (Good et al., 2006), while changes in maximum 1 - day and 5 - day precipitation amounts were systematically enhanced relative to changes in seasonal mean precipitation across many regions of Europe (Beniston et al., 2007).

Managing the impact of drought through seasonal forecasts of hydroelectric production: Dr. Marcello Petitta, Researcher, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)(Italy)

There are records of floods, great droughts and extreme seasonal climate fluctuations up to the 1400s.