Sentences with phrase «to reduce rainfall»

In addition, they also reduce rainfall by 40 % in some places by setting up tents in rainy weather.

Reduced rainfall forecast in coming decades could cause the breakdown of the transport system in trees that takes water up from soil to the leaves, scientists say.

«It's a very visible footprint of reduced rainfall not just locally, but across the whole region.

A positive (warm) AMO and a negative (cool) PDO is associated with reduced rainfall over much of the continental US and drought in the south - west.

Each eruption ultimately reduced rainfall across the regions of Africa that drain into the Nile.

«We already know that on the one hand, reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, and on the other hand, forest loss can intensify regional droughts.

The study, published in the journal Climate Dynamics last month, estimates that climate change will cause reduced rainfall alone to dessicate 12 percent of the Earth's land by 2100.

This does not include the similarly ambitious planting of trees to control flooding, reduce rainfall runoff to recharge aquifers, and protect soils from erosion.

(Reuters)- Large - scale engineering projects aimed at fighting global warming could radically reduce rainfall in Europe and North America, a team of scientists from four European countries have warned.

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.

They also project a northward shift of the main rain belt that provides moisture to the Amazon rainforest, which could further reduce rainfall to the region.

Outside Hustai National Park, a woman milks cows in a buffer zone where reduced rainfall and overgrazing have desertifed the land.

But the droughts and fires of 2011 may only be a preview of things to come; climate change is expected to raise temperatures and could also reduce rainfall in Texas, according to climate models.

El Niño is also probably making record - breaking illegal fires in Indonesia worse, by reducing rainfall there.

Those analyses suggested that large eruptions indeed reduced the rainfall needed to trigger fall floods along the lower Nile.

Climate models project that Amazon deforestation would reduce rainfall regionally.

Deforestation in the Amazon could sharply reduce rainfall in nonforested parts of southern Brazil, a rich agricultural area, as well as Paraguay and Uruguay, his study suggests.

This may exacerbate the effects of reduced rainfall on agriculture and water availability.

One of the proofs was that LA was hit with the worst drought in at least 1,200 years in 2014, triggered by high temperatures and reduced rainfall linked to the change of climate and weather patterns.

They discovered that while some natural climate cycles could partly explain reduced rainfall and desert expansion southward, human - driven climate change is also playing a part.

Between the 1950s and 1980s reducing rainfalls across the Sahel (the region of Africa immediately South of the Sahara Desert) caused severe drought and famine.

Critics contend these climate geoengineering approaches are risky and could kill marine life, stall plant growth, damage the ozone layer, and reduce rainfall while increasing warming in other areas.

«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.

At the continental scale, modelled forest - savanna conversion reduced rainfall in tropical African regions, but increased it in central southern Africa (Semazzi and Song, 2001).

Warmer temperatures also increase evaporation in soil, which affects plant life and can reduce rainfall even more.

But the unintended effects are serious, and in some cases are canceling the benefits; the lake effect is reducing rainfall upstream, and in the event of a catastrophe, the flooding downstream would be unimaginably devastating.

Rising temperatures and reduced rainfall expected to result from climate change could ravage the species» food supply.

The increased SSTs then help intensify circulations spiraling away from the subtropics, again favoring reduced rainfall near the equator and to the south, as well as northern mid-latitudes.

Heatwaves and reduced rainfall pose the greatest threat to Australians» health and livelihoods.

Deforestation can significantly reduce rainfall in tropical areas and beyond, according to a study published today (Sept. 7) in the journal Nature.

Deforestation has already reduced rainfall in heavily populated areas adjacent to the Amazon and Congo rainforests, according to a statement from England's University of Leeds, whose researchers were part of the study.

More recent research has shown how European deforestation over the past thousands of years may have reduced rainfall over modern - day Africa.

In fact, increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere — now roughly 392 parts per million and rising — may be fertilizing the rainforest and preventing even greater impacts from reduced rainfall, although this question, Davidson and his colleagues wrote in the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.»

Using experimental plots in the Amazon, a team of scientists led by Marcos Costa from the Federal University of Vicosa in Brazil found that clearing for soybeans increases the reflectivity or albedo of land, reducing rainfall by as much as four times relative to clearing for pasture land.

In the Southwest, climate change would likely cause reduced rainfall and increased temperatures that will evaporate more water from the soil.

I'm reminded of a «skeptic» mocking Tim Flannery over Tim's prediction more than a decade ago that Perth (Western Australia) would run out of water because of reduced rainfall.

«We already know that, on the one hand, reduced rainfall increases the risk of forest dieback, and, on the other hand, forest loss can intensify regional droughts.

By 2050, deforestation could reduce rainfall across the Amazon Basin by 21 percent during dry seasons and 12 percent during wet seasons.

But outside the tropics, he observes, smoke is less likely to reduce rainfall.

Existing models suggest the current extent of deforestation should reduce rainfall, but researchers have not yet observed the decline, according to the study's authors.

Spracklen and Garcia - Carreras show through their analysis that deforestation has reduced rainfall, but the reduction is currently smaller than the natural variability in the system.

Remove the savannahs, they found, and you reduce rainfall totals by a third.