Sentences with phrase «seen declining rainfall»

For example, the «long rains» in recent years have seen declining rainfall but models project increasing amounts of «long rains» rainfall in the future.

Not exact matches

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

Indeed, that region has seen a general increase in rainfall over the long term during most seasons (certainly no material decline).

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

In 2002 for example, a break in the monsoon rains saw July receiving only about 50 % of its normal rainfall, leading to cuts in agricultural output and declining GDP.

=============================================== Instead of cutting and pasting slabs of words go to the BOM page Climate change > time series and you will see with your very own eyes there is only one region with a declining rainfall namely the South West....

The southeast of the continent has experienced a similar decline in late autumn and early winter rainfall since around the mid-1990s (see the State of the Climate 2014 for more information).

High latitude areas are tending to see more significant increases in rainfall, while precipitation has actually declined in many tropical areas.»

A period of declining Australian rainfall associated with more frequent and intense El Nino is seen between 1977 and 1998.