Sentences with phrase «precipitation years adds»
This detectable increase in extremely low - precipitation years adds to the effect of rising temperatures and contributes to the increasing occurrence of extremely warm — dry 12 - mo periods during the 21st century.
http://www.pnas.org/ Not exact matches
Recent models indicate that the rain comes in twoforms: a constant, light drizzle over most of the surface, adding up totwo inches or so of precipitation per year, and occasional cloudburststhat carve out river channels and fill the lakes, only to evaporateagain when temperatures rise.
They didn't displace 90,000 people in Southern California by chance in the same year as we added new colors on our precipitation map for the heavy rain that fell with Hurricane Harvey.
From the perspective of soil moisture, the ongoing drought is the worst in at least the last 1,200 years, the study found, adding that the high temperatures in the past few years may have aggravated the precipitation deficits by nearly 40 %.
in May, the head of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) provided details on the new weather modification program, adding that the country would seek to increase precipitation by 3 to 5 percent in the next five years through cloud - seeding.