Sentences with phrase «precipitation totals for»

We rank the average summer temperature and precipitation totals for our Climate Matters markets.

The CONUS precipitation total for summer was 9.19 inches, 0.87 inch above average and the 16th wettest on record.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

The May precipitation total for the nation was 4.44 inches, 1.53 inches above average.

The normal August precipitation total for Honolulu is 0.56 inch.

The March - May precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. was 9.40 inches, 1.46 inches above the 20th century average.

The annual precipitation total for Alaska is slightly decreasing at an average rate of 0.03 inch per decade.

In contrast, France received less than 90 percent of its average precipitation total for 2015, making this one of the 10 driest years for the country in the past half century.

It was also a very dry year: «The average precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation.

The average precipitation total for the contiguous U.S. for 2012 was 26.57 inches, 2.57 inches below average, making it the 15th driest year on record for the nation.

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The corresponding studies were funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) with a total of EUR 600,000 for two years under the project «Integrating Microwave Link Data for Analysis of Precipitation in Complex Terrain: Theoretical Aspects and Hydrometeorological Applications» (IMAP).

Maps of median TAE averaged across 23 model simulations for (a) and (b) mean surface air temperature, (c) and (d) highest daily maximum temperature, (e) and (f) lowest daily minimum temperature, (g) and (h) total precipitation, and (i), (j) maximum 1 - d precipitation for (a), (c), (e), (g) and (i) June - August and (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) December - February.

In some parts of the country, the torrents of rain that characterize monsoon season account for more than 90 percent of the total annual precipitation.

The work, which covered 1936 - 2010, considered average monthly temperatures and total monthly precipitation for the water year (prior October to September) as possible predictors of annual streamflow.

The research team divided the total circulation providing moisture for precipitation into three parts: deep - divergent, shallow - divergent, and non-divergent.

The coverage of extreme precipitation totals and warm temperatures contributed to the fourth highest U.S. Climate Extremes Index in the 106 - year record for the CONUS.

Many locations broke their precipitation total records for the month.

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.

The total precipitation for the month of October amounts to a respectable 53 mm and rain is expected on 4 days of the month across the archipelago.

Rain is very scarce during this month, with total precipitation barely reaching 3 mm due to minor sprinkles above the islands that last for only 3 days of the month on average.

Throughout September, total precipitation amounts to 77 mm and rain is expected for a bit more than 7 days of the month.

Rainfall affects only 3 days of the month, possibly with slightly heavier showers which deliver a total of 20 mm of precipitation for the month.

Monthly total precipitation for the month of April amounts to a respectable 132 mm, which is more or less evenly distributed across much of the southern part of Maldives.

Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3319160060 The BACC II Author Team averaged frequency of extreme 1 - day precipitation totals above 15 mm and a... 4.6 Cloudiness and Solar Radiation 4.6.1 Cloudiness Records of cloudiness and solar... There is a trend of decreasing cloud cover over the Baltic Sea basin......

Further, precipitation over land is a small fraction of the total, so there's a lot of room for changes in precip there without altering the result on the global mean.

As a consequence, even in regions or states where there is a strong increasing trend in heavy precipitation, the trend at an individual precipitation gauge that represents the official total for a city may be equivocal, flat, or even down.

It's entirely possible for a location to see increasing total precipitation and increasing drought.

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Elsewhere, precipitation totals ranged between 70 to 90 percent of normal, except for in western Tennessee, where most stations reported values that were near normal to slightly above normal.

At the same time, however, for the continent as a whole, the agriculture sector, which is highly dependent on precipitation, is estimated to account for approximately 60 % of total employment, indicating its crucial role in livelihoods and food security derived through food access through purchase (Slingo et al., 2005).

I am just not sure of the difference between Large - scale and total precipitation and which one is better to use for such analysis.

Much of the precipitation fell as rain and heavy, wet snow, which allowed for higher totals.

It was the duration of rainfall, because of the slowing, stalling, slow reversal before the storm finally left the area that accounts for the high precipitation totals.

Glacier runoff does not increase or decrease the long term runoff for a basin, total runoff over a period of several years is determined largely by annual precipitation.

With this in mind, and given how difficult it can be to dislodge deeply - entrenched ridging such as is currently being observed, I estimate that there is an above average probability that total precipitation for water year 2013 - 2014 will be below normal once again.

For this reason, any delay in onset or early truncation of our rainy season (which typically runs from October through May) can quickly result in diminished annual precipitation totals; conversely, the occurrence of just a couple of additional storm events can lead to well - above totals for the yeFor this reason, any delay in onset or early truncation of our rainy season (which typically runs from October through May) can quickly result in diminished annual precipitation totals; conversely, the occurrence of just a couple of additional storm events can lead to well - above totals for the yefor the year.

We first extracted total winter precipitation, summed across October to April, for every year from 1900 — 2012 from the PRISM modeled dataset [25] across 2 scales: (a) ponderosa pine forests within the Verde watershed and (b) these forests within the Salt - Verde watersheds.

For example, in Siberia for the summer season during the years 1936 to 1994 there was a statistically significant decrease in total precipitation of 1.3 % / decade, but the number of days with precipitation also decreasFor example, in Siberia for the summer season during the years 1936 to 1994 there was a statistically significant decrease in total precipitation of 1.3 % / decade, but the number of days with precipitation also decreasfor the summer season during the years 1936 to 1994 there was a statistically significant decrease in total precipitation of 1.3 % / decade, but the number of days with precipitation also decreased.

The results obtained by Donat and his team suggest that both annual precipitation and extreme precipitation increased by 1 — 2 % per decade in dry regions, with wet areas showing similar increases in the extent of extreme precipitation and smaller increases for annual totals.

Increases in heavy precipitation have also been documented even when mean total precipitation decreases (for example, see Northern Japan in Figure 2.35, or Manton et al., 2001).

forecast lead - time at which the continuous ranked probability skill score (CRPSS) for ENS probabilistic forecasts of 24 - hour total precipitation reaches 10 % for the extra-tropics (northern and southern hemispheres); verification against station observations

For a given month, season or year, the amount of precipitation on days which exceed the 95th percentile is accumulated and divided by the total amount of precipitation of that month, season or year.

In total, more than 10,000 stations are used (for temperature and precipitation combined), but the coverage is inhomogeneous in space and time.

All of these characteristics (except for the ocean temperature) have been used in SAR and TAR IPCC (Houghton et al. 1996; 2001) reports for model - data inter-comparison: we considered as tolerable the following intervals for the annual means of the following climate characteristics which encompass corresponding empirical estimates: global SAT 13.1 — 14.1 °C (Jones et al. 1999); area of sea ice in the Northern Hemisphere 6 — 14 mil km2 and in the Southern Hemisphere 6 — 18 mil km2 (Cavalieri et al. 2003); total precipitation rate 2.45 — 3.05 mm / day (Legates 1995); maximum Atlantic northward heat transport 0.5 — 1.5 PW (Ganachaud and Wunsch 2003); maximum of North Atlantic meridional overturning stream function 15 — 25 Sv (Talley et al. 2003), volume averaged ocean temperature 3 — 5 °C (Levitus 1982).

The outlook for homogenizing daily temperature and monthly precipitation totals is also discussed.

Here is a table listing precipitation versus snow water equivalent totals for California's major hydrological regions, on April 1, 2017:

Total precipitation and snow water equivalent (SWE) are well above average for all three regions, yet SWE is lagging behind precipitation.

If we take a further step and consider the atmospheric state at a location (or even the global average) with respect to temperature or precipitation, we may observe that physics does not imply any preservation law for temperature (the total energy is preserved, not temperature) or for precipitation (the total water balance is preserved, not the rate of precipitation).

Correlation (color) and regression maps (contour) of SST (left) and SLP (right) associated with the first EOF modes of annual precipitation (a, b), low - frequency precipitation (c, d), and total water storage (e, f), which are calculated using annual mean data for the first EOF mode of annual precipitation, 10 - year running mean for precipitation, and 10 - year running mean leading with 5 - year for total water storage.

Correlation coefficients between the principal components of EOF modes for total water storage (Figs. 4h, 7h) and the time series estimated by 1st order Markov process using the precipitation noise (Figs. 4b, 7b)