Sentences with phrase «rainfall over»

Based on a sample of 10 leading IPCC AR4 models (CNRM, CSIRO, GISS, MIUB, HadGEM, CCCMA, GFDL, ECHAM5, MRI, HadCM3), 4 models show that, in comparison with 1971 — 2000, more rainfall over the Bodélé is likely for the last decade of the 21st century, whereas 6 show that drier conditions are likely.

The National Weather Service added new colors to its rainfall maps to effectively map Hurricane Harvey, which dropped unprecedented amounts of rainfall over Texas

Nor do they fully understand the mechanisms that govern rainfall over the Sahel.

«Rainfall was four to six times higher over warm areas (cropland) than when no deforestation has occurred, while rainfall over the remaining forest was half or less,» stated a press release from the American Geophysical Union, which publishes Geophysical Research Letters.

... they have had absolutely average rainfall over the last five years and Northa America has been downright soggy:

«The difference between the «perfect curve» and the curve of any other year shows a deficit in plant growth and that deficit is highly correlated to weather, particularly to rainfall over the year.»

Although annual - total inflow is more sensitive to rainfall over the southern MDB, where rainfall since 2001, has been the lowest on record, this alone can not explain the observed inflow decline.

Finally, better spatial / temporal coverage is a main prerequisite for improving current knowledge of global rainfall over the complete diurnal cycle.

«Rainfall over nearly all of Australia during the cooler half of the year (May — October) was well below average in 2002.

Timothy Chase > When viewed alongside the threat of drought to agriculture due to decreased rainfall over land, this does not make for a pretty picture.

When viewed alongside the threat of drought to agriculture due to decreased rainfall over land, this does not make for a pretty picture.

It is further argued that the transition of vertical circulation patterns is in response to adjustments to geostrophic imbalance — an adjustment time scale of 6 — 9 h. Although unproven, we suggest that antecedent rainfall over the alkali desert 2 weeks prior to the event was instrumental in lowering the bulk density of sediments and thereby improved the chances for dust ablation by the atmospheric disturbance.

This would lead to lower relative humidity and less rainfall over land according to my sense of it, and this drying would accelerate land warming even more.

Recent Trends in Melting Glaciers, Tropospheric Temperatures over the Himalayas and Summer Monsoon Rainfall over India.

The NAM is indeed a key component of drought variability in north - central Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico, but the paleoclimatic record of summer rainfall over the Southwest is very limited.

Her research focuses on understanding variability and trends in the seasonal cycle of rainfall over Africa.

It amuses The Git that BOM / CSIRO describes a 20 % increase in Australia's rainfall over the last 114 years as «slight» and push the temperature change over the last 104 years (so well illustrated in Latitude's graph) as «extreme».

Amazon - The Amazon rainforest hosts some of the richest biodiversity in the world; stores vast amounts of carbon; and regulates the climate and rainfall over a vast area.

Drought occurs when there is a lack of rainfall over a long period of time, resulting in water shortages for groups of people, activities or the environment.

It is found that the winter rainfall over SWWA has a significant positive correlation with the SWAC index in both early (May — July) and late (August — October) winter.

Such decadal temperature fluctuations in the SPNA are strongly correlated with other components of the climate system, for example, Atlantic hurricane activity, North American and European river flow, and rainfall over the African Sahel and northeast Brazil.

The result indicates that the SAM does not significantly influence the winter rainfall over SWWA.

«Previous studies have raised the possibility that the recent decline in winter rainfall over southwest Western Australia (SWWA) is related to the concurrent upward trend in the southern annular mode (SAM).

Rainfall over much of Morocco is expected to decline by 10 % at the same time as water usage rates rise substantially.

Rainfall over quite a good portion of northern Australia and far south on the east coast.

The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.

Numerous stalagmite studies have examined variations in monsoon rainfall over previous millennia in China at the northern margin of the Indo - Pacific tropical rain belt, but only a handful of studies have focused on its southern margin.

The eruption of Pinatubo was followed by a significant drop - off of rainfall over land and a record decrease in runoff and freshwater discharge into the ocean, according to a recent study by Trenberth and other scientists.

The statistical forecasting methods are based on empirical relationships between rainfall over specific parts of the GHA and some global / regional / local climate system indices.

Brooks, C. E. P, 1928, Periodicities in the Nile floods, Memoirs of the Royal Meteorological Society, 2, (12), 9 - 26 Brooks, C E P and Hunt, Theresa M, 1930, The zonal distribution of rainfall over the earth Memoirs of the Royal Meteorological Society, 3, (28), 139 - 158 Browning, K.A. and Ludlam, F.H., 1962.

Also, I would imagine it is very difficult at the moment to calculate the total volume of precipitation of rainfall over a region.

Just to look at the data from the BOM for rainfall over the last 115 years.

Such events would likely be driven by extended periods of rainfall over the ice during summer heating events.

Glacier melt and episodes of increasingly violent rainfall over the single land mass — Pangaea — generated an ocean in which large volumes of fresh water pooled at the top.

ERA - Interim produces more rainfall over equatorial western Africa than in the datasets based more directly on observations, and more rainfall in the convergence zones over tropical seas.

This study investigates the features of eastward extension of the South Asian high (SAH) and its connection with diabatic heating and rainfall over eastern Asia on subseasonal time scales.

Washington, March 4 (IANS) Soot falling on the snow covered Tibetan Plateau causes more rainfall over India and China, says a new study.

The flooded areas of the Gulf are totally a result of rainfall over a large area as the rivers that empty into the Gulf are sourced in an arc from Mount Isa to The Wet Tropics.

She and colleagues write in Scientific Reports journal that they examined the chemical makeup of stalagmites collected from a cave in southern Belize, in Central America, and used their data to reconstruct the pattern of hurricane rainfall over the last 450 years.

journal that they examined the chemical makeup of stalagmites collected from a cave in southern Belize, in Central America, and used their data to reconstruct the pattern of hurricane rainfall over the last 450 years.

The Hulme et al. (2001) study, which reviews observed (1900 — 2000) and possible future (2000 — 2100) continent - wide changes in temperature and rainfall over Africa, is also not ignored by the IPCC, contrary to the assertion of the petitioner.

The pattern of rainfall over the past century does not point to a trend of reduction in rainfall.

What is currently more noteworthy is the projected prolonged period of below - average rainfall over much of eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea — as shown in the chart below:

A question for those with more knowledge than me in the matter: does rainfall over the oceans increase the rate of sea - level rise?

Overall, the model reproduces the basic features of the diurnal cycle of rainfall over the core monsoon region of northwestern Mexico and the southwestern United States.

Thanks to Nepartak's large size and Taiwan's unique geography, some parts of the island could see as much as 52 inches (1,330 mm) of rainfall over the next day or so.

Indeed, although the 2012 summer experienced less rainfall over the central Great Plains than in either 1934 or 1936, those years were about 0.5 °C warmer.»

To measure rainfall over land, the scientists took advantage of a new NASA - based international satellite mission, dubbed Global Precipitation Measurement.

Scientists in the US say parts of Australia are being slowly parched because of greenhouse gas emissions — which means that the long - term decline in rainfall over south and south - west Australia results from fossil fuel burning and depletion of the ozone layer by human activity.

The regional consensus climate outlook for the September to December 2015 rainfall season indicates increased likelihood of above normal to near normal rainfall over most of the equatorial parts of the GHA.