Sentences with phrase «predict times of droughts»

years by which they could predict times of droughts?

Not exact matches

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

Of course, we can not predict an exact location, duration and timing of each drought event beyond several weekOf course, we can not predict an exact location, duration and timing of each drought event beyond several weekof each drought event beyond several weeks.

If farmers could more accurately predict drought or the onset of the tropical rainy season, they would be better equipped to make pivotal timing and management decisions.

The frequency and severity of droughts are only expected to increase, Anderegg says, and once climate models take recovery time into account, we may find that future forests will harbor even less carbon than current models predict.

By modeling the observed changes in drought recovery times with «business as usual» circumstances for future conditions, meaning assuming greenhouse gas emission trends continued as they have, the researchers were able to predict the future recovery times of droughts.

As of the time the IPCC came out with the AR4, predicted extremes in precipitation and droughts were being observed: