Sentences with phrase «recovery times of droughts»

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.

Not exact matches

«The recovery of South Africa from drought conditions may take some time, depending on rainfall and temperature conditions over the coming spring through summer 2016/17 season,» it added.

The subsequent rebuilding of livestock numbers takes time, so recoveries of livestock - related production from drought are generally more protracted than those for crop production.

The findings suggest that more of the Earth's land surface is being affected by drought now than it was a century ago and that recovery times are getting longer.

Global map of average drought recovery times (in months) for 1901 - 2010.

«If droughts become more frequent, as expected, the time between droughts may become shorter than drought recovery time, leading to permanently damaged ecosystems and widespread degradation of the land carbon sink.»

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.

The research, published in Nature, maps how much of the Earth's vegetation is recovering after a drought and how recovery times have changed since 1901.

Additionally the researchers note that the drought frequency paired with longer recovery time could lead to tree death and thus a lowered ability of the region to absorb carbon from the atmosphere, further increasing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere.

The discoveries of the study were made by first examining the drought recovery times of various regions around the world.

229 Time resolution on the scale of a year or two can be obtained from semi-fossil trees, e.g., Roig et al (2001) have a 1229 - year - long stretch of tree - ring widths from the middle of the last ice age at 40 ° S that shows abrupt droughts with abrupt recoveries (tenfold changes in yearly accumulation), but they are floating in absolute time and such local records can not yet be matched to events in the ice - core recoTime resolution on the scale of a year or two can be obtained from semi-fossil trees, e.g., Roig et al (2001) have a 1229 - year - long stretch of tree - ring widths from the middle of the last ice age at 40 ° S that shows abrupt droughts with abrupt recoveries (tenfold changes in yearly accumulation), but they are floating in absolute time and such local records can not yet be matched to events in the ice - core recotime and such local records can not yet be matched to events in the ice - core records.