"Season precipitation" refers to the total amount of rainfall, snowfall, or any other form of moisture that occurs during a particular season, such as spring, summer, fall, or winter. It measures the amount of water that falls from the atmosphere onto the Earth's surface during a specific time of the year.
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There's also an interesting general pattern to
wet season precipitation — it is projected to increasingly fall over a smaller part of the calendar year.
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accumulation season precipitation annual balance was correlated with precipitation at Diablo Dam and Concrete WA for differing combinations of months and with April 1 SWE at five USDA SNOTEL stations.
Diurnal variability is an important yet poorly understood aspect of the warm -
season precipitation regime over southwestern North America.
Even though winter rain and snowfall could increase in parts of California — currently in the grip of calamitous drought — in the decades to come, overall there will be lower
cold season precipitation and, because of higher temperatures, ever more evaporation and ever more water demand for the surviving vegetation.
«Many anticipated adverse impacts of climate change including sea level rise, higher temperatures, enhanced monsoon precipitation and run - off, potentially reduced
dry season precipitation, and an increase in cyclone intensity would in fact aggravate many of the existing stresses that already pose a serious impediment to the process economic development of Bangladesh.
Findings could provide new insights into the role cold -
season precipitation plays in droughts and water shortages in the western U.S.
Holden, Z. A., Morgan, P., Crimmins, M. A., Steinhorst, R. K. & Smith, A. M. S.
Fire season precipitation variability influences fire extent and severity in a large southwestern wilderness area, United States.
Since essentially the entire geographic region experiences a qualitatively Mediterranean climate — with strongly seasonal precipitation and a very distinct (but globally uncommon) summer dry season — most of California's annual precipitation derives from a relatively small handful of major cool -
season precipitation events.
With storms pummeling Southern California, and California's Northern Sierras receiving the third - highest
early season precipitation in the last 50 years, state officials doubled the amount of water they expect to provide next year from the State Water Project.
In addition to providing a considerable fraction of the annual total amount, winter precipitation tends to remain in the «terrestrial» hydrological cycle (i.e., part of stream flow) much longer than the summer fraction [17], making the cool -
season precipitation regime particularly important for natural processes and human consumption.
That is because atmospheric rivers (see sidebar) often produce heavy,
cold season precipitation and flooding when they hit the west coast of North America.
Quan, M. P. Hoerling, A. Hoell, P. Peterson and W. M. Thiaw (May 2017): Climatology and Interannual Variability of Boreal Spring
Wet Season Precipitation in the Eastern Horn of Africa and Implications for its Recent Decline.
«Through a comprehensive statistical analysis of precipitation observations (1951 — 2011), we show that statistically significant decreases in peak -
season precipitation over the core monsoon region have cooccurred with statistically significant increases in daily - scale precipitation variability,» the researchers said.
A recent report by Seager et al. (30) found no significant long - term trend in cool -
season precipitation in California during the 20th and early 21st centuries, which is consistent with our findings.
The team studied the records of temperature, cool -
season precipitation and stream flow for the years 1906 to 2012.
The correlation between annual net balance is higher for ablation season temperature than for accumulation
season precipitation.
The highest accumulation season correlation coefficient is total accumulation
season precipitation, ranging from 0.35 - 0.59.
Freezing level elevations are incorporated by including only May and October precipitation occuring when Stevens Pass temperature is below 7oC as accumulation
season precipitation.
The four primary climatic variables affecting North Cascade glaciers are ablation season temperature, accumulation
season precipitation, summer cloud cover and May and October freezing levels (Tangborn, 1980; Pelto, 1988).
The two key climate parameters are ablation season temperature and accumulation
season precipitation.