Sentences with phrase «summer monsoon rains»

Billions in South Asia depend on the summer monsoon rains.

This region is irrigated by summer monsoon rains and rain - fed agriculture is the primary sustenance for Sahel populations.

Once a year, after the summer monsoon rains, two species of harvester ants (Pogonomyrmex) join in a mad mating frenzy, as in the photo above.

His work in Australia began in 2009 and was originally intended to focus on the chemical composition of the stalagmites as a means of reconstructing past changes in the intensity of Australian summer monsoon rains.

Not exact matches

Last summer's monsoons dumped 14 inches of rains on my five acres in a matter of two months, allowing my fruit trees and pepper plants to flourish.

The Tibetan Plateau in China experiences the strongest monsoon system on Earth, with powerful winds — and accompanying intense rains in the summer months — caused by a complex system of global air circulation patterns and differences in surface temperatures between land and oceans.

He has created computer simulations indicating that sulfate clouds could potentially weaken the Asian and African summer monsoons, reducing rain that irrigates the food crops of billions of people.

Warmer summers strengthened the West African monsoon and delivered more rain.

Summer in southwestern China is the monsoon season, with heavy rain at unpredictable times throughout the day.

This long - term change in the East Asian monsoon index is consistent with a tendency for a southward shift of the summer rain belt over eastern China (Zhai et al., 2004).

In the late summer I'm loooking for signs that our monsoon rains will arrive, in the fall and spring I look for freezing temps that will affect my garden, in the winter I'm seeing if I need to bring in wood for the stove, and in early summer, I'm keeping an eye on high temperatures and winds that will dry out my trees and garden quickly.

In the second half of the 20th century, the levels of rain recorded during the Northern Hemisphere's summer monsoon fell by as much as 10 per cent, researchers say.

The annual summer monsoon that drops rain onto East Asia, an area with about a billion people, has shifted dramatically in the distant past, at times moving northward by as much as 400 kilometers and doubling rainfall in that northern reach.

Researchers have struggled to accurately model the changes to the abundant summer rains that sweep across the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, known to scientists as the «North American monsoon.»

Participating researchers said, in the course of the study, they had noticed «a strengthening trend of winter rainfall (between 1964 - 2006) and summer rainfall (between 1938 - 2006) and weakening monsoon rain (1960 onwards).

Towns where the sea level is creeping further inland may flood easier during the summer monsoons (seasonal reversals in the wind) that bring torrential rains from the southwest.

I doubt that the energy - transporting effects of thunderclouds, summer squalls, cyclonic storms, monsoon rains, etc. are known with quantitative precision.even approaching 10 % Are they?

The village of Cherrapunji in northeastern India, for instance, recorded over 9 metres (about 30 feet) of rain in one month (July 1861) owing to the Indian summer monsoon.

And by the way in regions of summer monsoon (tagged Aw pale rose on figure 21 - A) the temperature is lower during the summer rains than in April!

This is the regime of the monsoon (rain - bearing winds), which is associated with the heating of the Asian landmass in summer and its intense cooling in winter.

A scorching summer has given way to an above - average monsoon in South Asia; people who were praying for rain are now fleeing from it

So it's possible that shrinking sea ice in the Arctic could increase snowfall over Siberia, pushing the jet stream southward, creating summer high pressures in Europe that allow India's monsoon rains to linger, and on it goes... It's hard to examine those connections in the real world, but it's much easier to see how things play out in a climate model.

During the brief summer monsoon season, rains pour into town and quickly flood many roads.

The nearby Franklin Mountains place it at a relatively high elevation, and the El Paso area receives monsoon - like summer rains and thunderstorms.