Sentences with phrase «seasonal rainfall»

The graph below of seasonal rainfall in mm shows the difference between the dark blue «winter as observed» and the dark green «winter in the world that might have been».

Already, research has shown that habitat destruction has altered seasonal rainfall patterns in parts of the world.

The salt flats are a dried lake of salt which when combined with seasonal rainfall, transform into a pristine liquid mirror!

But there are other indicators, and aspects of rainfall behavior that could be conducive to drought, even if the mean seasonal rainfall isn't changing.

The differences over the terrestrial region are the corresponding differences in the total seasonal rainfall (mm) of the wet season from the two model simulations.

9 Irrigation by Foot Most African farmers rely on seasonal rainfall, having no other means of irrigation for crops.

He determined limited irrigation may be more attractive for sustaining higher biomass yield and supplies given the large variation of seasonal rainfall in the Texas High Plains.

There are more than a dozen widely used global climate models today, and despite the fact that they are constantly being upgraded, they have already proved successful in predicting seasonal rainfall averages and tracking temperature changes.

The team used real - time seasonal rainfall, temperature and El Niño forecasts, issued at the start of the year, combined with data from active surveillance studies, in a probabilistic model of dengue epidemics to produce robust dengue risk estimates for the entire year.

His results should help climatologists predict monsoons in Asia and overall climate in North America and might someday allow them to estimate seasonal rainfall years in advance.

«While this program was especially effective in South Florida, a region with distinct seasonal rainfall, this novel approach developed at Florida Atlantic University is broadly applicable to addressing a global issue in any region to better sync lawn - watering conditions with actual conditions,» said Ata Sarajedini, Ph.D., dean of FAU's Charles E. Schmidt College of Science.

Keith has conducted studies on many of these species to see how they deal with the highly seasonal rainfall (and thus, food supply) in the «wet - dry» tropics, and has expanded this work to include the cane toads that have arrived recently.

Autumn (Mar - May): Most seasonal rainfall in Queensland is around February and March, with chances of rain decreasing in April.

Whilst many waterfalls in the vicinity of Santa Teresa and Malpais are transient, dependent upon seasonal rainfall to appear, the Montezuma Falls are a constant feature.

Between January and March there is high humidity, strong seasonal rainfall and the temperatures average between 20 °C to 30 °C.

LONDON, 7 July, 2017 — European scientists say there is hope that a parched swathe of Africa could suddenly start to receive heavy seasonal rainfall, with the countries south of the Sahara desert watered by a Sahel monsoon.

With a seasonal shift in temperature patterns, it is worth considering seasonal rainfall patterns at the same Perth weather stations.

Eastern South American Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) increased due to changes in seasonal rainfall associated with Amazon forest loss and changes in temperature related to wNA forest loss.

The onset of normal seasonal rainfall is likely to set in around early to mid-March.

Due to the physical linkage between salinity and terrestrial precipitation, seasonal rainfall forecasts in these two regions are significantly improved by incorporating salinity into prediction models.

This is a proven phenomenon: Atlantic Ocean surface temperature is already being used to predict seasonal rainfall in South America.

Phillips, J.G., M.A. Cane, and C. Rosenzweig, 1998: ENSO, seasonal rainfall patterns and simulated maize yield variability in Zimbabwe.

A software system called the Yield Prophet helps them manage those crops and generate optimum yields, given different scenarios of seasonal rainfall and temperature.

After reading the rainfall pattern of the last 16 years, the scientists have come to the conclusion that there has been a consistent drop in the average seasonal rainfall in India during the summer monsoon months of July - August, which is the peak of rainfall in the entire country leading to good agricultural produce.

Malaria is also affected by shifts in seasonal rainfall and humidity, as well as land - use change and urbanization.

By looking at variables such as day and night temperatures and seasonal rainfall and vegetation types, for instance, researchers can identify the ecological niches best suited to certain insects.

«ENSO and IOD bring... shift [s] in the seasonal rainfall distribution,» Ghosh said, «which can be easily captured using isotopic fingerprinting of carbonates in growth bands of Achatina fulica snails.»

The Bureau utilises POAMA for several products including forecasts of the state of El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Indian Ocean Dipole forecasts, and seasonal rainfall and temperature outlooks.

The onset of seasonal rainfall is expected around late February to early March.

The analysis also enabled the team to identify a seasonal rainfall threshold — a baseline above which conditions are too wet to permit any burning.

Cambodia is among the Southeast and South Asian countries tipped to face an increased risk of severe flooding because of projected changes in seasonal rainfall.

Countries in south and southeast Asia, which accounted for one - third of all «extreme» risk nations, were likely to face an increased risk of severe flooding due to projected changes in seasonal rainfall.

Some of the ancients, such as the Sumerians, damaged land by the unsustainable use of irrigation, but this seems to be less used by those who wrote the Bible, it seems that they were more reliant on the seasonal rainfall.

«ENSO and IOD bring... shift [s] in the seasonal rainfall distribution,» Ghosh said, «which can be easily captured using isotopic fingerprinting of carbonates in growth bands of Achatina fulica snails.»

Overall, we find that the CTL simulation in the low resolution CESM captures the larger - scale patterns of seasonal rainfall and its variability associated with ENSO reasonably well.

Therefore, in large areas, human activities depended on seasonal rainfall.