Sentences with phrase «water availability over»

Recent studies show that at lower elevations, glacial retreat is unlikely to cause significant changes in water availability over the next several decades, but other factors, including groundwater depletion and increasing human water use, could have a greater impact.

I am inclined to dismiss the importance of land temperature — which is modulated by water availability over land which shifts with ENSO and other — and related — ocean patterns.

The main objectives of this study are to better understand the characteristics of the SR through an in - depth assessment of the contemporary water balance when the basin was intensively monitored (1996 — 2005), to use standardized runoff to select the best timescale to compute the Standard Precipitation (SPI) and Standard Precipitation Evaporation Indices (SPEI) to estimate trends in water availability over 1919 to 2005.

Not exact matches

To study changes in soil moisture, the researchers used the Palmer drought severity index to examine average water availability and loss over the study period.

Oceanographers say that unusually warm waters over the last few years affected food availability in the waters near Guadalupe Island and much of the North Pacific.

Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama have experienced severe droughts over the past year due to a particularly intense El Niño weather phenomenon, reducing the availability of water and possibly vegetation that howler monkeys feed on.

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While glacier melt contributes water to the region's rivers and streams, retreating glaciers over the next several decades are unlikely to cause significant change in water availability at lower elevations, which depend primarily on monsoon precipitation and snowmelt, the committee said.

Its availability is not limited by rainfall because it uses the same water over and over again.

Other benefits such as increased water availability, reduced energy demands, and greater ecosystem productivity may also occur in specific regions over the short or long - term.

To study changes in soil moisture, the researchers used the Palmer drought severity index to examine average water availability and loss over the study period.

Based on 1705 field measurements from 21 distinct sites, a consistent and statistically significant increase in the availability of soil water (11 %) was observed under elevated CO2 treatments in both drylands and non-drylands, with a statistically stronger response over drylands (17 % vs. 9 %).

By mid-century, annual average river runoff and water availability are projected to increase by 10 - 40 % at high latitudes and in some wet tropical areas, and decrease by 10 - 30 % over some dry regions at mid-latitudes and in the dry tropics, some of which are presently water - stressed areas.

«Consequently, tropical cyclone activity across the western Caribbean may remain essentially stable over the current century, which has important implications for water availability in this region.

Over land evaporation is limited by water availability — and so the balance of latent and sensible heat changes with rain and drought.

China has warmed rapidly over the past half century and has experienced widespread concomitant impacts on water availability, agriculture and ecosystems.

People all over the world rely on melting snow to replenish their water supplies, and the earlier melt (and sometimes smaller accumulation) reduces the water availability for these people, threatening their way of life.

Surface temperature varies with water availability as a result of changing lapse rates over land.

By generating information on future trends in water resource availability in the basin, the project seeks to identify possible adaptation needs over the coming years.

Food availability per capita and access to clean water have risen dramatically over the past half - century, reducing malnutrition and water - borne diseases and increasing life expectancy.

Likewise, the temperature ranges over which elevated CO2 enhances plant growth are strongly mediated by water availability [49].

«Widespread mass losses from glaciers and reductions in snow cover over recent decades are projected to accelerate throughout the 21st century, reducing water availability, hydropower potential, and changing seasonality of flows in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges (e.g. Hindu - Kush, Himalaya, Andes)...»

Yohe and colleagues from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Industrial Economics Inc say that they are highly confident that impacts caused by hydrologic drought — on agriculture and water availability, for example — will be increasingly negative and widespread over time, despite persistent uncertainty about projected precipitation patterns.

It's been a great long time since I claimed any expertise in family law, but the fuss over today's Globe and Mail front page headline (see the story here) concerning the availability of divorce to foreign same - sex couples married here in Canada has tempted me to put a toe in the waters again, just to check with Slaw readers that my understanding is correct or off base.

But whether the issue is called riparian, aquatic, appropriation diversion, or some other term, real estate practitioners, property owners, and governmental bodies may soon find themselves involved in numerous, and, often cantankerous, disputes over water and the availability and use thereof.

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