Sentences with phrase «on seasonal rainfall»

Therefore, in large areas, human activities depended on 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.

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.

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.

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.

Storms, snowmelt, and general seasonal changes in rainfall have a very noticeable and rapid effect on karst springs.

Changes in land surface properties as the wet season progresses impact surface fluxes and boundary layer evolution on daily and seasonal time scales that feed back to cloud and rainfall generation.

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 varirainfall from 8 yr (1998â $ «2005) of Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) Precipitation Radar (PR) and TRMM Microwave Imager (TMI) measurements, focusing on seasonal diurnal variRainfall 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.»

The Bureau's seasonal outlook system for Australia is based on rainfall and temperature forecasts from the POAMA model.

Her research focuses on understanding variability and trends in the seasonal cycle of rainfall over Africa.

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.