Sentences with phrase «precipitation records»

The answer for precipitation recorded individually at each weather station is no.

Using daily station - based precipitation records from the United States Historical Climatological Network for the years 1979 - 2008, it is found that there are two distinct sub-regions.

But to her surprise, Carolin found that the changes in precipitation recorded in the Borneo stalagmites did not correspond nearly as well with one set of climate changes in particular, the Dansgaard - Oeschger events.

When it stalled near the Houston area, the resulting rains broke precipitation records and caused devastating flooding.

When bringing home food trumps singing The scientists then compared the birds» mating habits to temperature and precipitation records near the nesting areas.

Sediment core samples drawn from Lake Titicaca, South America's largest freshwater lake, have revealed a 25,000 - year precipitation record that may rewrite the books on ancient climate.

«We didn't have the potential to develop these kinds of precipitation records for most of the world, until now.

In February, heavy rain in Argentina broke February precipitation records at many stations.

With precipitation records dating back to 1947, May 2015 was the driest May on record for the country, with total average rainfall for the month just 25 percent of normal.

To test the accuracy of these modeled data, we compared values from the Verde ponderosa pine PRISM modeled data to measurements of total winter precipitation recorded during the original Beaver Creek experiments [31].

Precipitation records from modern rain gauges were used for 1908â $ «96 together with the traditional Korean rain gauge precipitations for 1777â $ «1907.

New daily precipitation records were set on January 31st for many locations including Concordia and Topeka (in Kansas), and Lincoln and Omaha (in Nebraska).

Using long - term temperature and precipitation records from 1870 to 2002, Aiguo Dai of the National Center for Atmospheric Research and colleagues calculated the Palmer index for locations around the world in which it is not routinely used.

The researchers looked at historical temperature and precipitation records to find out whether drought conditions were more likely to hit during warm or cold years in the past.

Bradley, R.S., Diaz, H.F., Kiladis, G.N. and Eischeid, J.K., 1987: ENSO signal in continental temperature and precipitation records.

That was because they already had temperature and precipitation records from Barrow dating back five decades.

For instance, a precipitation record that is influenced by ENSO contains information about ENSO and hence regional temperatures, even if it is not locally reflecting temperature changes.

Probably not so much with temperatures (except for coverage issues see Cowtran and Way), but as a recent note by Trenberth et al pointed out precipitation records are in need of a major combing out and reconciliation.

In general, glaciers retreat due to a combination of rising temperatures and declining precipitation, but the temperature and precipitation records from the Alps indicated that glaciers should have continued advancing until around 1910.