Sentences with phrase «tropical hydrology»
Oppo, D.W., G.A. Schmidt, and A.N. LeGrande, 2007: Seawater isotope constraints on tropical hydrology during the Holocene.
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Shindell, D.T., G. Faluvegi, R.L. Miller, G.A. Schmidt, J.E. Hansen, and S. Sun, 2006: Solar and anthropogenic forcing of tropical hydrology.
This mechanism relies on a close link between the circulation of the North Atlantic and the tropical hydrology of Central America.
Not exact matches
This study highlights the importance of considering hydrological drought for wildfire prediction, and the researchers recommend that hydrology should be considered in future studies of the impact of projected ENSO strength, including effects on tropical ecosystems, and biodiversity conservation.
With the goal of providing basic information to help improve preparedness and mitigation efforts, new University of Iowa - led research published online in September in the Journal of Hydrology examined how accurate current forecasting systems are in predicting rainfall from North Atlantic tropical cyclones that reach land in the United States.
After finishing his Ph.D. (University of Extremadura, Spain) on integrated physics - based hydrologic modeling for semiarid rangelands, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Davis on the interactions between hydrology and agriculture in tropical regions.
One is relatively optimistic: «Simulated resilience of tropical rainforests to CO2 - induced climate change», performed by a research team led by Chris Huntingford of the UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology and published in Nature Geoscience in 2013.
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Environment has decided to constitute «Extreme Weather Forecasting and information Dissemination Mechanism» headed by Rishi Ram Sharma, Director General at the Department of Hydrology and Meteorology to prevent human casualties caused by severe weather induced by tropical cyclones.
Research interests: Nexus of physical climate and human systems, including effects of explicit irrigation on non-local hydrology in climate models, effects of MJO amplification on flood extremes and tropical cyclogenesis.
A sentence in Chapter 13 of the 2007 IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability states: «Up to 40 percent of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation.»
Doctoral students focus their efforts on research; current options include biodiversity conservation, hydrology, pollution management, tropical ecology, and water resource management — plus many others.
«Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000).»
The contested IPCC statement reads: «Up to 40 % of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation; this means that the tropical vegetation, hydrology and climate system in South America could change very rapidly to another steady state, not necessarily producing gradual changes between the current and the future situation (Rowell and Moore, 2000).»
Glacial geomorphology, palaeoclimate of the tropics and Antarctica, tropical glaciers and hydrology
Specific interests include palaeoclimate of the tropical Andes, causes of late - glacial abrupt climate events, and the future evolution of tropical glaciers and hydrology.