Sentences with phrase «season precipitation regime»

Diurnal variability is an important yet poorly understood aspect of the warm - season precipitation regime over southwestern North America.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

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Because the model only describes the rainy season and does not capture the annual monsoon cycle, abrupt transitions in the bistable regime can only be interpreted intraseasonally, e.g., a month of heavy rain followed by a month of extraordinarily weak precipitation.