Sentences with phrase «rainfall amount for»

Increased rainfall variability was more significant than rainfall amount for tall - grass prairie productivity (Fay et al., 2000, 2002), with a 50 % increase in dry - spell duration causing 10 % reduction in NPP (Fay et al., 2003) and a 13 % reduction in soil respiration (Harper et al., 2005).

Not exact matches

«That large amount of moisture meant the potential for much greater rainfalls and greater flooding,» he noted.

The Mesonet system will collect measurements such as temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and direction, surface pressure, soil moisture, soil temperature, solar radiation, and precipitation amounts for rainfall and snow accumulation.

New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

He studied remains of two organisms — a microscopic algae and the waxy coating of mangrove leaves — for clues to the amount of past rainfall.

William and Stillwell chose to study green roofs over other forms of green infrastructure for a very simple reason: There was one on campus fitted with the instrumentation needed to measure soil moisture, rainfall amount, temperature, humidity and many other variables that are plugged into their fragility curve model.

If we start to extract immense amounts of power from the wind, for instance, it will have an impact on how warmth and water move around the planet, and thus on temperatures and rainfall (see «How clean is green?»).

Less rain, more storm damage Ireland has assiduously collected rainfall data, with amounts for the past 12 years showing huge year - to - year variations.

For example, a female might care about social rank at one time, but then later choose based on rainfall amounts.

The new study, which looked at 30 - year averages of rainfall amounts, revealed that a similar pattern has persisted for the past 10,000 years.

Finally, we took into account the average amount of rainfall in inches for each city over a 30 - year period.

Approximately ten miles long and 3,000 feet deep, Waimea (which is Hawaiian for «reddish water») was formed millions of years ago by erosion from the Waimea River, along with massive amounts of rainfall.

Colombia's Pacific coast is a region with high rainfall, which is directly responsible for the endless amounts of tropical species of flora and fauna.

Using models, we see for instance that the rainfall in Brisbane was not extreme this year compared to past amount under similar oceanic conditions.

I hope it is net since the meltwater amounts to an average rainfall for Greenland of about 2 to 3 ″ per year.

Susan Anderson's NYT link: «The flooding in Louisiana is the eighth event since May of last year in which the amount of rainfall in an area in a specified window of time matches or exceeds the NOAA predictions for an amount of precipitation that will occur once every five hundred years, or has a 0.2 percent chance of occurring in any given year.»

In Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific warmer surface waters increased the water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amounts.

For Nicaraguan leaders, the ongoing disappearance of their forests has already lead to a rise in temperatures and reduced the amount of rainfall.

Wet springs are likely to delay planting, for example.4 And in hotter weather, plants typically require more rainfall simply to retain the same amount of moisture.

There is still some chance for an upward move in Nino1 +2 in the coming few weeks, but since Nino1 +2 has already dropped by a considerable amount, even some rise, or pause in the decrease, will not translate to implications for important rainfall activity along the South American coast — at least not in the coming few weeks.

Forecast shows rainfall amounts in millimeters for the next 48 hours when a typhoon will hit the Philippines.

The BC Station Data page provides access to observations of weather and climate variables (such as temperature and rainfall amounts) for British Columbia from the Provincial Climate Data Set (PCDS).

As temperatures rise, basic physics dictates an increase in the amount of atmospheric moisture, which is the fuel for heavy rainfall events.

Harvey will be in the record books for almost unbelievable amounts of rainfall (the final tally is not in yet; unfortunately it will still be raining in TX for several more days, with potential doubling of the amount that has already fallen).

For example, intense rainfall and strong winds can affect the amount of precipitation measured in collectors.

[21] All rainfalls totals from this storm are still preliminary and require review; but, if verified, this amount breaks not only the Texas state rainfall record but also the record for the remaining Lower 48 states.

The storm then stalled, with its center over or near the Texas coast for four days, dropping historic amounts of rainfall of more than 60 inches over southeastern Texas.»

However, because the skill of in day - to - day rainfall amounts and locations continues to improve, it might be feasible to call for limited evacuations in the most vulnerable locations.)

This, in turn, increases the amount of atmospheric moisture that is available for storms to process into rainfall.

For example, the «long rains» in recent years have seen declining rainfall but models project increasing amounts of «long rains» rainfall in the future.

As a result of changes in rainfall production, the amount of liquid water in the cloud may be modified, changing the amount of energy available for release as latent heat during freezing (Rosenfeld et al. 2008); these changes may potentially lead to significant alterations in storm vorticity strength (Tinsley et al. 2012).

The month brought an entirely average amount of sunshine, and less than average rainfall for the South (78 %), and slightly above average (110 %) for the UK.

In addition to offering areas for recreation and benefits to mental and physical health, urban green spaces «filter large amounts of water after heavy rainfall and soften the effects of heat waves or other extreme events,» according to the agency, whose recent assessment on urban ecosystems concluded that «with the right policies and tools, urbanization does not need to be a threat to biodiversity in cities and beyond.»

«That large amount of moisture meant the potential for much greater rainfalls and greater flooding,» Mann added.

Climate change creates new risks for human exposure to vector - borne diseases by altering conditions — such as local temperatures, rainfall amounts, and warm season length — that affect the development and spread of disease vectors and the pathogens they carry.

«Harvey will be in the record books for almost unbelievable amounts of rainfall,» Curry wrote.

The combination of the drought and California wildfires has made it difficult for the ground to absorb large amounts of rainfall.

Rainfall amounts up to 45 mm with possible thunderstorms are forecasted for today and tomorrow with daytime highs reaching 13 degrees Celsius over the weekend will advance the melting of the snow pack and cause a significant increase in water levels and flows over the next few days.