Increased dry -
season length over southern Amazonia in recent decades and its implication for future climate projection.
Lead - lag correlation between variations in annual mean total water storage, total vegetation carbon, and annual fire
season length over the Northern US and the Southern US / Mexico regions in the control simulation.
Not exact matches
The new
season will still take place
over a 24 - hour period, with episodes playing out in real time, but because of the shorten
season length, not all the hours of the day will be shown (presumably skipping the period of time a major character finds themselves ensnared in a bear trap).
The 18 - year - old has enjoyed an impressive
season in the Championship for the Midlands side, which has included a remarkable goal against play off hopefuls Wolves where he slotted home after taking the ball for the entire
length of the pitch in a 2 - 1 win
over their rivals.
That's what I said «his team» because for all the flack sent his way each and every one of us still look - out for the team he decides
over the
length of the
season.
Over the course of the
season, I have spoken at
length about the value of fading (betting against) trendy underdogs.
It is the first time the Blues have gone four league games without conceding since early in the 2010/11
season and wing - back Marcos Alonso and one of the back - three, Gary Cahill, both put that down to a concerted effort
over the full
length of the pitch.
Cuomo has gone to
lengths this election
season to court female voters and has a large lead among women
over Republican Rob Astorino according to polling in the race.
«DNA methylation is a key mechanism by which day
length and melatonin levels exert seasonal control
over the expression of the deiodinase enzyme known as dio3, and dio3 expression likely acts as a key step for the maintenance of reproductive competency during the breeding
season,» said co-author Tyler Stevenson, senior lecturer at the Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.
Our ensemble fire weather
season length metric captured important wildfire events throughout Eurasia such as the Indonesian fires of 1997 — 98 where peat fires, following an El Niño - induced drought, released carbon equivalent to 13 — 40 % of the global fossil fuel emissions from only 1.4 % of the global vegetated land area (Fig. 4, 1997 — 1998) 46 and the heatwave
over Western Russia in 2010 (Fig. 4, 2010) that led to its worst fire
season in recorded history and triggered extreme air pollution in Moscow51.
Inter-annual variations in mean US fire weather
season length were significantly correlated with variation in annual burned area reported by the US National Interagency Fire Center44
over the full time series from 1979 to 2013 and also from 1992 to 2013, when fire occurrence data quality was highest45 (ρ = 0.679 and 0.683, respectively, P < 0.001).
This metric was examined to identify global and regional patterns in fire weather
season length changes as well as changes in the frequency of, and the area affected by, long fire weather
seasons (defined as > 1.0 σ above historical mean)
over the last 35 years.
South America's tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas have experienced tremendous fire weather
season length changes, with a median increase of 33 days
over the last 35 years (Fig. 3a and Table 6).
Go Graceful this snowy
season, Wear black Knee -
length Boots and throw
over a grey coat to get this graceful look.
With or without my baby bump I would have worn this jacket on the shoulders
over a simple knee -
length spaghetti - stropped dress and something sparkling in the coming festive
season......
Lots of skirts and dresses were at knee height this
season, which is a great
length for many women
over 40!
It feels like a whole
season of TV's «24», sans a character who kicks butt, condensed to just a little
over 2 hours in
length.
UCD several decades ago developed a heat summation formula for suitability of coastal zones for wine growing, it is a complex calculation which counts number of days
over 50 degrees Fahrenheit; and it intercalculates with the
length of growing
season from budbreak to first frost.
For instance, the correlation of
season length to the (negative) mean DJF temperature anomaly is
over 0.4 0.6 (and
over 0.8 for the skating days).
For corn, small long - term average temperature increases will shorten the duration of reproductive development, leading to yield declines, 4 even when offset by carbon dioxide (CO2) stimulation.5, 6 For soybeans, yields have a two in three chance of increasing early in this century due to CO2 fertilization, but these increases are projected to be offset later in the century by higher temperature stress7 (see Figure 18.2 for projections of increases in the frost - free
season length and the number of summer days with temperatures
over 95 °F).
This consequently changes the moisture flux convergence
over land leading to changes in the
length and the distribution of daily rain rates
over the duration of the wet
season.
Large - scale warming in the Arctic [Johannessen et al., 2004] has resulted in an extension of the
length of the summer melt
season over sea ice [Smith, 1998; Rigor et al., 2000], thawing permafrost [Osterkamp and Romanovsky, 1999], and near - coastal thinning and overall shrinkage of the Greenland ice sheet [Krabill et al., 1999; Lemke et al., 2007, and references therein].
(PDF) It notes that, based on data collected from study plots
over a 13 - year period and survey data covering 27 years on the tundra of Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, an area where both temperatures and the
length of the growing
season has increased in recent decades:
We show that
over extratropical regions where wheat and maize are harvested, the increase in growing
season length from 1956 to 2005 can be attributed to increasing greenhouse gas concentrations.
The
length of the growing
season in interior Alaska has increased 45 %
over the last century7 and that trend is projected to continue.8 This could improve conditions for agriculture where moisture is adequate, but will reduce water storage and increase the risks of more extensive wildfire and insect outbreaks across much of Alaska.9, 10 Changes in dates of snowmelt and freeze - up would influence seasonal migration of birds and other animals, increase the likelihood and rate of northerly range expansion of native and non-native species, alter the habitats of both ecologically important and endangered species, and affect ocean currents.11
Over the past quarter - century, both the extent of melting and the
length of the melt
season on the Greenland ice sheet have been growing, as local temperatures have risen.6 Satellites measure the extent of melting by differentiating between areas of the ice mass that are fully frozen and those with surface meltwater.
If the tolerable range WRT temperature seems small to you perhaps this is because describing «suitable environment» with a mean value is a simplification that, while it does have some utility, is used as a stand - in for a suitable range of temperatures
over the
length of a growing
season.
While their conservative physiology — retention of needles for one to several decades — provides a buffer to year - to - year changes evident in the high autocorrelation of ringwidth series, the critical factors limiting growth are growing -
season length and mean temperature
over that period.
Decadal climate prediction of annual mean variations in total water storage (left), vegetation carbon (center), and fire
season length (right panels)
over the Northern US.
The fire parameterization in CLM4 assumes that the annual carbon fraction burned every year is a function of annual fire
season length that is defined as the sum of probability of at least one fire in a day
over the whole year (Thonicke et al. 2001).
Time series of total water storage (color in upper panels), fire
season length (lines in upper and bottom panels), and total vegetation carbon (color in bottom panels) averaged
over the Northern US and Southern US / Mexico regions in the pre-industrial control simulation.
Similarily to my remarks to John, I apologize for not wishing you all the best
over the holiday
season; you have been a steadfast contributor, as has John, to this site, and you have both become what could be best described as good arm's -
length friends at the other ends of these keyboards... We should all arrange for a get - together
over coffee or lunch sometime soon, assuming that John is still in the GTA area.