Overall, we find that the CTL simulation in the low resolution CESM captures the larger - scale patterns
of seasonal rainfall and its variability associated with ENSO reasonably well.
The onset
of seasonal rainfall is expected around late February to early March.
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.
He determined limited irrigation may be more attractive for sustaining higher biomass yield and supplies given the large variation
of seasonal rainfall in the Texas High Plains.
Not exact matches
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?
The model also incorporates data on how people typically move between home, work, school, and shopping; on sexual behavior (Zika can be spread through unprotected sex); and on factors that affect mosquito populations, such as
seasonal temperature swings,
rainfall, and breeding sites such as caches
of old tires.
Simply measuring the amount
of rainfall could track either the strength
of El Niño or the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a global atmospheric feature related to the trade winds that moves north and south each year, bringing heavy rains and
seasonal flooding in its path.
The rainy seasons have higher malaria rates, but are also related to a variety
of bacterial and viral infections that have
seasonal and
rainfall related rates.
The team used real - time
seasonal rainfall, temperature and El Niño forecasts, issued at the start
of the year, combined with data from active surveillance studies, in a probabilistic model
of dengue epidemics to produce robust dengue risk estimates for the entire year.
They tested four hypotheses that might explain the maintenance
of these three distinct giraffe species: isolation - by - distance, physical barriers to dispersal, general habitat differences resulting in habitat segregation, or regional differences in the
seasonal timing
of rainfall.
Expansion
of the Sahara is putting pressure on Sahel communities, such as Diakhao, that rely on
seasonal increases in
rainfall during the wet season.
Keith has conducted studies on many
of these species to see how they deal with the highly
seasonal rainfall (and thus, food supply) in the «wet - dry» tropics, and has expanded this work to include the cane toads that have arrived recently.
Unfortunately, a lot
of the factors that influence
seasonal allergies — like the weather, where you live, humidity, and
rainfall amounts — are completely out
of your control.
Autumn (Mar - May): Most
seasonal rainfall in Queensland is around February and March, with chances
of rain decreasing in April.
The salt flats are a dried lake
of salt which when combined with
seasonal rainfall, transform into a pristine liquid mirror!
Whilst many waterfalls in the vicinity
of Santa Teresa and Malpais are transient, dependent upon
seasonal rainfall to appear, the Montezuma Falls are a constant feature.
The only
seasonal variations are denoted in terms
of the amount
of rainfall, usually divided into the «dry season» and the «green season».
It is those who live in parts
of the world which have currently have climates marginal for human habitation which will suffer first, i.e. the hot countries and countries where human habitation is strongly dependant on
seasonal rainfall, where perturbations to the climate may / will cause crop failure and famine.
Previous
rainfall projections underestimated the amount
of rainfall the region will still have:
Seasonal Forests Could Replace Rainforest According to the new research, «The rainfall regime in eastern Amazonia is likely to shift over the 21st century in a direction that favors more seasonal forests rather than savannah
Seasonal Forests Could Replace Rainforest According to the new research, «The
rainfall regime in eastern Amazonia is likely to shift over the 21st century in a direction that favors more
seasonal forests rather than savannah
seasonal forests rather than savannah.»
But the cause - and - effect argument that you are mounting must confront a more serious problem: according to my calculations, the
seasonal pattern
of the recent change in
rainfall in south - eastern Australia is completely at odds with CSIRO's projections.
This study investigates the variability
of convective and stratiform
rainfall from 8 yr (1998â $ «2005) of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements, focusing on seasonal diurnal vari
rainfall from 8 yr (1998â $ «2005)
of Tropical
Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements, focusing on seasonal diurnal vari
Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements, focusing on
seasonal diurnal variability.
Lead author Dr Debbie Polson,
of the University
of Edinburgh's School
of GeoSciences, said: «This study shows for the first time that the drying
of the monsoon over the past 50 years can not be explained by natural climate variability and that human activity has played a significant role in altering the
seasonal monsoon
rainfall on which billions
of people depend.»
Seasonal signals
of diurnal
rainfall are presented over the large domain
of the tropical Pacific Ocean, especially over the ITCZ and South Pacific convergence zone (SPCZ) and neighboring continents.
This study shows that a weaker surface ocean current system produces colder coastal SST's along the Atlantic coast
of Florida, thereby reducing the length and the total
seasonal accumulation
of rainfall in the wet season
of Peninsular Florida relative to the simulation in which these currents are stronger.
The onset
of normal
seasonal rainfall is likely to set in around early to mid-March.
This study evaluates the forecast skill
of the fourth version
of the Canadian coupled ocean — atmosphere general circulation model (CanCM4) and its model output statistics (MOS) to forecast the
seasonal rainfall in Malaysia, particularly during early (October — November — December) and late (January — February — March) winter monsoon periods.
Soil temperature varies from month to month as a function
of incident solar radiation,
rainfall,
seasonal swings in overlying air temperature, local vegetation cover, type
of soil, and depth in the earth.
Cambodia is among the Southeast and South Asian countries tipped to face an increased risk
of severe flooding because
of projected changes in
seasonal rainfall.
Some
of the ancients, such as the Sumerians, damaged land by the unsustainable use
of irrigation, but this seems to be less used by those who wrote the Bible, it seems that they were more reliant on the
seasonal rainfall.
«ENSO and IOD bring... shift [s] in the
seasonal rainfall distribution,» Ghosh said, «which can be easily captured using isotopic fingerprinting
of carbonates in growth bands
of Achatina fulica snails.»
This persistence
of very high latent heat flux is opposite to the
seasonal trends
of transpiration and evaporation in savannas, even with similar total
rainfall (Saleska et al., 2003; da Rocha et al., 2009).
Her research focuses on understanding variability and trends in the
seasonal cycle
of rainfall over Africa.
Our study highlights important challenges in representing the
seasonal cycle
of rainfall in climate simulations.
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.
In the longer term — statistical correlation
of SST and
rainfall are probably the way to go for
seasonal to decadal predictions.
We're also seeing similarly dramatic changes in other aspects
of climate and related effects on ecosystems, including the distribution
of rainfall, storm activity, extinction
of plant and animal species, and
seasonal change.