Sentences with phrase «on monsoon»

The Chinese at Beijing University appreciate the importance of the northern and southern annular modes.in determining the evolution of regional climate and in particular the influence of the SAM on their monsoon.

As for the potential impacts of climate change on the monsoon, the report says it is unknown at this point whether this will strengthen or weaken the ability of the monsoon to transport pollutants into the upper atmosphere.

Regardless of whether there's a detectable impact of climate change on monsoon patterns, there are, according to the story itself, detectable impacts of a host of other factors.

Very little of the arable land is irrigated, and local populations depend on monsoon rainfall for agriculture.

However, the total influence on monsoon precipitation of temporally varying direct and indirect effects of various aerosol species is still not resolved and the subject of active research.

Millions of people in India and China depend on monsoon rains to water their crops and for drinking water.

The effects of these unprecedented changes would be extremely detrimental to India's economy which relies heavily on the monsoon season to bring fresh water to the farmlands.

In the text: «These simulations suggest that solar and volcanic forcing (Fan et al., 2009; Liu et al., 2009a; Man et al., 2012) may exert only weak regional influences on monsoon systems.»

This ridiculous claim that so many millions, nay, billions of people rely on the Himalaya glaciers for their water has been put to rest long time ago: they depend on monsoon rains (as stated but not stressed by Ben).

While glacier melt contributes water to the region's rivers and streams, retreating glaciers over the next several decades are unlikely to cause significant change in water availability at lower elevations, which depend primarily on monsoon precipitation and snowmelt, the committee said.

Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and the author of many mind - altering books, including the newly released Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, braved the elements on a monsoon - like evening to pay a visit to the Brooklyn Rail headquarters, where Rail contributor Jed Lipinski spoke with him about his life and work.

Maharajas» Express is giving lucrative offers on its monsoon special journeys «Southern Sojourn» and «Southern Jewels», running on 24th June and 1st July.

It has focus on the monsoon mechanism and the explanation of wet and dry seasons.

Is there a weatherman out there willing to state that the heat content of the oceans had no effect on the monsoon?

Because the absorbing ability varies greatly with region and time, assigning a constant heat - absorbing ability for the particles tends to underestimate the impact that absorbed heat can have on the monsoon system, the authors said.

The researchers examined the impact of mineral dust on monsoon strength by creating seven high - resolution computer simulations that varied the heat absorption of the mineral dust.

This knowledge could be very important for the 600 million people living on the Indian subcontinent who rely on the monsoon, which provides the area with 75 percent of its annual rainfall.

Powerful eruptions can wreak havoc on monsoons by shifting and weakening the Intertropical Convergence Zone, a belt of low pressure near the equator that drives nearby precipitation patterns.

They say the fall of the Ptolemaic Kingdom offers a cautionary tale for all regions that currently depend on monsoons — an estimated 70 percent of the world's population.

The school will be followed by the Workshop 2nd WCRP Grand Challenge Meeting on Monsoons and Tropical Rain Belts from July 2 to July 5, 2018.

Years - long ocean trends such as El Niño and La Niña cause alternate warming and cooling of the sea surface there, with effects on monsoons and temperatures around the world.

«We're trying to assess the impacts of climate change on the regional climate and on the monsoons,» Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology monsoon researcher Raghavan Krishnan told Grist.

With respect to impact on monsoons, the scientists speculate that the solar - dependent temperature changes influence the strength of Siberian highs.

We don't understand their impacts at largescale on the monsoons, on precipitation, rainfall regimes.

Climate modelling studies with orographic changes confirm significant effects on monsoons and on Eurasian temperature [35].

Not exact matches

On the spending side of the ledger, the priorities have been agriculture support (after two weak monsoons), rural development spending, infrastructure investments and a massive structural shift to direct benefit transfers deposited in the bank accounts of beneficiaries — made possible by the extraordinary biometric identity card program (Aadhaar) covering 950 million people, and the impressive financial inclusion initiative which has opened over 200 million new bank accounts for impoverished families.

Indian equity markets from here on are contingent on the progress of SW Monsoon.

Who's that prophet again Mormons believe is speaking with god on thier behalf... Don Monsoon or something?

Danish archeologists working on the island of Bahrain in «the (Persian) Gulf» have now discovered there was lively trade across the Indian Ocean, using the Monsoons, from Yemen and Oman to the Indus cultures.

It's similar to a fritter - traditionally served on top of meals as a crunchy addition, but has also become appreciated on its own as a delicious snack enjoyed at Indian festivals, as a starter before meals, and as a comfort food during monsoon season served with a cup of steaming tea and a smile.

After sitting down with slices of pizza and big smiles on all our faces (my mom, dad, Scott, and I), a monsoon rolled in and we got to enjoy each other's company with the cracking of thunder, buckets of rain, and flashes of lightening.

By collaborating on a wide scope of research, including development of better rice varieties, strengthening of rice - based farming systems, and improvement of crop cultivation practices, Bangladesh continues to raise its level of rice production and minimize the intensity of food insecurity during major flooding and monsoons.

The price of milk and milk - based products in India is set to surge on the back of a variety of natural and human factors, including a shortage of rainfall in the monsoon months.

Last summer's monsoons dumped 14 inches of rains on my five acres in a matter of two months, allowing my fruit trees and pepper plants to flourish.

«He had such an awesome chemistry on - air with Gorilla Monsoon, and Monsoon was the perfect straight man for Bobby, while Heenan was the comedic heel for Monsoon.

«Most notably, the Q - poll had an immediate impact is on fundraising, like a sudden monsoon.

Anticipating this next round of solar monsoons, the National Academy of Sciences recently released a study based on a workshop in summer 2008 that broadly addressed many of the socioeconomic ramifications of space storms.

During this time, rainfall was affected by the African monsoon which strengthened and weakened on a 23,000 year cycle driven by the precession of the equinoxes.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

Other research on stalagmites in China has shown that the East Asian monsoon changed at the same time as the Heinrich and Dansgaard - Oeschger climate changes.

«The timing of Indian summer monsoon, on which the livelihoods of many million people depend, is likely becoming more erratic.

El Niños have caused the Indian monsoon to fail, however the 1997 - 98 El Niño didn't, despite being the biggest on record (Science, doi.org/fj7cbx).

ITS vast ice sheets and monsoon run - off make the Tibetan plateau one of the largest sources of fresh water on an increasingly thirsty planet.

But many impacts depend on how El Niño affects the monsoons, which is hard to predict.

Less famous than the Silk Road — its land - based parallel — the maritime web of commerce and cultural exchange operated on seasonal monsoon winds.

They live in isolated villages days from any town on foot, or hours away by jeep or motorbike, down rutted dirt roads that become impassable in the monsoon rains.

Knowing when the monsoon is coming is important because India's agriculture - dominated economy depends heavily on its wet season.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's perfect storm was followed on its heels by a second wave of weather that dropped heavy monsoon rains over the Punjab watershed from Aug. 2 to 9, Khan said.

A (typically local) focus is on predicting the monsoon, the June - September rainy season.

«We have seen a substantial century - to - century variation on these fossil layers,» Anderson reports, «but the monsoon wind strength has increased during the past four centuries as the Northern Hemisphere has warmed.»