Sentences with phrase «rainfall over this region»

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

Not exact matches

Record rainfall and growing concern over the politics of the Murray Darling Basin have not been enough to dent the values and demand for water entitlements in Australia's booming farming regions such as the Murrumbidgee.

The government - backed «winter drought project», throwing tarpaulins over rows of vines, is designed to simulate reduced rainfall of between 15 and 20 per cent that the region is projected to experience in 2030 - 50.

Although lightning activity is higher over the shipping lanes, the amount of rainfall is no different to nearby regions.

In particular, the modelers could now reproduce in detail the pattern of warming, changes in rainfall, etc. actually observed in different regions of the world over the past century.

Much of the flood - inducing rainfall that has pummeled California over the last month flowed into the region via a river in the sky.

Agriculture in the region was impacted such that the U.S. Department of Agriculture declared more than 1,000 counties in 26 states natural disaster areas as rainfall dropped an average of roughly 26 inches down to just over 13.

This has important implications for understanding and predicting changes in rainfall patterns over large populations across the Asia and Oceania regions.

Deforestation can reduce rainfall over a wide region, even as it spurs increased rainfall in the immediate area where that deforestation took place.

That's because past measurements have been spotty and difficult to extrapolate across larger regions, and the period over which rainfall data have been recorded is relatively short.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

Indeed, that region has seen a general increase in rainfall over the long term during most seasons (certainly no material decline).

Previous rainfall projections underestimated the amount of rainfall the region will still have: Seasonal Forests Could Replace Rainforest According to the new research, «The rainfall regime in eastern Amazonia is likely to shift over the 21st century in a direction that favors more seasonal forests rather than savannah.»

It is estimated that more than 62 thousand families have been affected by the lack of rainfall with over half the municipalities in the region having enacted a state of emergency.

This drought has many of the attributes of past historical droughts over the region — widespread lack of storms and rainfall that would normally enter the region from the Pacific with considerable frequency.

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

The image of tropical cloudiness (an indicator of rainfall) below is a good example of how a single index number over a single region doesn't give you the whole picture of an El Niño's «personality.»

(NOAA predicts very extreme rainfall totals over a broad region of the Mississippi River Valley during the next three days.

This guidance document rpovides a statement on the rainfall season over the equatorial sector of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region, duirng the October to December 2016 season.

The idea is to come up with a whole range of scenarios that would cross some sort of threshold for the system, i.e. a certain rainfall accumulation over a certain time and region.

Typically increases in total rainfall over India may be in the region of 5 - 10 %, although some climate models suggest more and some less.

September to December (SOND) constitutes an important rainfall season over the equatorial sector of the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) region.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

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.

Here's two sentences to get you started: Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods of time.

The UK Met office's PRECIS system has also warned of a massive rise of 250 - 500 mm of annual rainfall in the Indian Himalayan region, especially J&K, over the next 50 years.

Results show that the mean rainfall (temperature) significantly reduces (increases) over the region when...

As in that study, they analyzed the history of rainfall measurements in the region to work out just how unusual the incredible rainfall totals from Harvey were — and whether the chances of an event like that have changed over time.

Over central South America, all models show a decrease in rainfall that reaches more than 20 percent in parts of the Amazon region.

When the model precipitation is brought to closer agreement with the observations, the AGCM accurately estimates dust loading over the Caribbean region, suggesting that rainfall errors cause the overestimation of wet deposition over the Atlantic.

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.

NASA eyes Pineapple Express soaking California — video follows From the NASA / GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER NASA has estimated rainfall from the Pineapple Express over the coastal regions southwestern Oregon and northern California from the series of storms in February, 2017.

Over central South America, all the models showed a decrease in rainfall that reached more than 20 percent in parts of the Amazon region.

Finds this expansion has intensified the subtropical ridge over southern Australia, pushing cool season midlatitude storm tracks further south, leading to a reduction in winter rainfall and runoff across the region

«However, while the island lost 50 % of its forest cover, over the same period a slowdown in the Walker circulation reduced rainfall across the region.

Over the weekend, Hurricane Harvey moved inland before stalling 60 miles southwest of Houston, devastating the region with record rainfall.

In particular, over NH land, an increase in the likelihood of very wet winters is projected over much of central and northern Europe due to the increase in intense precipitation during storm events, suggesting an increased chance of flooding over Europe and other mid-latitude regions due to more intense rainfall and snowfall events producing more runoff.

A desert might experience a rainy week, but over the long term, the region receives very little rainfall.

Certainly the artificially installed high pressure dome over California, particularly resilient over the southern half, and the incredible aerosol spraying in the atmosphere in that region and in yours, is preventing rainfall.

Climate: Atmospheric conditions (temperature, rainfall, etc...) of a region over a long period of time

Interestingly, spring — in addition to being a season with increasing frequency of heavy rainfall — also has the strongest increase in temperature over most of the northern part of the region studied, he says.

Among illustrative irreversible impacts that should be expected if atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations increase from current levels near 385 parts per million by volume (ppmv) to a peak of 450 — 600 ppmv over the coming century are irreversible dry - season rainfall reductions in several regions comparable to those of the «dust bowl» era and inexorable sea level rise.

When it comes to rainfall, the success of detection and attribution depends on how well climate models can simulate the complex physical processes over a given region.