Sentences with phrase «on rainfall data»

Not exact matches

«These patterns that are based on decadal analysis of modern data, and then the hydroclimate proxies that give the salinity in the oceans and the rainfall on land seem to show the same picture.»

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.

Combining these models with data on local rainfall and snowmelt, the team calculated what fraction of the water is carried to the sea by rivers, and what fraction sinks into the ground.

«With climate data at this level, we can pinpoint the address of every baby with hydrocephalus and correlate that to a square on the satellite rainfall maps,» said Schiff.

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

It uses actual rainfall data, assembled within seconds of the rain falling, backed up by information from local radar on where the rain is moving, to provide flood forecasts within five minutes.

Hence, the need for a slew of volunteers who can collectively type in temperature, pressure and rainfall data from the scanned - in pages on an easy - to - use interface far faster.

There are roughly 8000 microwave links in the Netherlands, and the team was given access to data on about 2400 of those, with signal strength recorded every 15 minutes — enough to get a snapshot of rainfall across the whole country.

The pair used data on winter rainfall collected during the 1980s and climate - predicting computer models to extrapolate future rain - on - snow patterns across the Northern Hemisphere.

He attributes the data from the other studies that points to glacial growth more to other influences on the calculations — such as an increase in rainfall.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.

They collected rainfall data from a weather station located close to the study area so that the rainfall totals on the signs were as representative as possible of actual conditions.

This year's fire risk comes on the heels of a severe drought in eastern and southeastern Brazil, where the satellite data showed a continued reduction in rainfall and a drawdown of groundwater associated with lower than normal precipitation.

They applied it to the area around the Walnut Gulch Experimental Watershed in Arizona, a place with excellent long - term historical rainfall data recorded on a per - minute basis.

In her analysis, the climate scientists made use of measured data compiled solely on land, such as rainfall, actual evaporation and potential evaporation.

In this new study, the researchers therefore used data from 46 experiments on grassland plant diversity in order to test the hypothesis of a positive effect of biodiversity on the resistance and resilience of ecosystems to various climate events, from drought to extreme rainfall.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

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 researchers analysed data from Mexico on the occurrence of dengue fever and the effect of climate variables such as, temperature, humidity and rainfall, as well as socioeconomic factors that included population figures and GDP per capita.

This 3 - D simulated Flyby was created using Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Radar data from 1:25 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012.

Depending on the level of service to which an organisation subscribes, it will provide regular pdf updates, sent to a phone if required, showing forecast data for RST (road surface temperature — much more relevant than air temperature when deciding when to grit), rainfall, falling snow and road state.

McKibben and his source for data on the storm, Wunderground meteorologistI Jeff Masters, are right when they say this storm is being fed by extremely warm sea temperatures and will be producing extraordinary rainfall (as I wrote on Wednesday).

I'd suggest starting with a diffuse prior over the observed range for annual rainfall, and updating on the observed data.

In fact, this is a similar argument to the one I made on the Browning Australia thread: if by omission of one data «point» — one proxy in this case, one year's rainfall in the Browning Australia thread — you drastically change the conclusion, then your method can not be robust.

The mechanism by which the effect of oceanic variability over time is transferred to the atmosphere involves evaporation, conduction, convection, clouds and rainfall the significance of which has to date been almost entirely ignored due to the absence of the necessary data especially as regards the effect of cloudiness changes on global albedo and thus the amount of solar energy able to enter the oceans.

The large majority of studies focuses on Africa and use satellite - enhanced rainfall data collected since 1980.

Limited validations for the results include comparisons of 1) the PERSIANN - derived diurnal cycle of rainfall at Rondonia, Brazil, with that derived from the Tropical Ocean Global Atmosphere Coupled Oceanï ¿ 1/2 Atmosphere Response Experiment (TOGA COARE) radar data; 2) the PERSIANN diurnal cycle of rainfall over the western Pacific Ocean with that derived from the data of the optical rain gauges mounted on the TOGA - moored buoys; and 3) the monthly accumulations of rainfall samples from the orbital TMI and PR surface rainfall with the accumulations of concurrent PERSIANN estimates.

So Tom Quirk got the rainfall data and discovered that rainfall in Australia has a large effect on the temperatures recorded by the sensors five feet off the ground.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

It presents data on weather modifications, temperatures and rainfall trends.

This report presents new data on how increasingly erratic rainfall impacts farms, firms and families, as climate change is making rainfall more erratic and less predictable..

A comparison to observations (gauge and radar data) shows that the high - resolution (3 km) model generates better rainfall distributions on time scales from monthly to hourly than the coarse - resolution (9 km) model, especially along the west slopes of the Sierra Madre Occidental.

Kind of related — In my research on extreme rainfall, we have had to make decisions about our data selection, analysis techniques and how we frame our conclusions.

Where can I get time series data on rainfall in various cities, or even states and provinces?

This view is unsupported, he says, by data for the past hundred years analyzed by the US National Climate Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term trdata for the past hundred years analyzed by the US National Climate Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term trData Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term trend.

Where we have good data on forest loss and rainfall change there are some observations suggesting a regional decline in rain regularity (as we would predict).

Indicators based on daily precipitation data show more mixed patterns of change but significant increases have been seen in the extreme amount derived from wet spells and number of heavy rainfall events.

One of the points on which Prof Curry and Dr. Schmidt agree is that attribution requires a comparison of the actual data (global mean temp, global mean rainfall, etc) to a model of what would have happened absent human alteration of the Earth surface and atmosphere.

The group used field observations of the burned watershed, spatially explicit data on watershed characteristics, historic rainfall and runoff measurements, and accepted modeling techniques to estimate post-fire changes in hydrologic and sedimentary processes in the Mission Creek watershed.

It may be an improvement on limited data but can't provide long term changes — which alone can provide limits of rainfall variability.

Panel data models indicate that excess and lack of rainfall have the most important harmful effects on newborns» health (temperature stresses and low relative humidity also have effects).

The first on - line reference provides examples of infilling missing rainfall data and rain gage consistency analysis.

My goal is to justify a Levy distribution for daily rainfall totals based on some rather well - understood physics (which doesn't appear to be known by hydrologists) in order to motivate those with lotsa data to see how well the Levy distribution fits the data.

The GPM core satellite provided another inside look at Pam and provided data on where the heavy rainfall was occurring within the storm.

I made a study on the rainfall of my country in 10 years, extrapolated some data that were missing whose frequency was insignificant.

Well, it looks like the press release was carefully worded, and referring back to Anthony Watts article on his blog which is criticized at the beginning of the RC article, i see no wrong claim there... Hiss main argument is written in bold: «The IPCC is under scrutiny for various data inaccuracies, including its claim — based on a flawed World Wildlife Fund study — that up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically and be replaced by savannas from even a slight reduction in rainfall.»

A separate higher frequency microwave sensor will provide data on rainfall, wind, and sea ice.