Sentences with phrase «wetted by rainfall»

The cost of hauling coal by railroad depends on the temperature of the rails and on the weight gain that occurs when coal is wetted by rainfall.

Not exact matches

The dramatic site of Brak had been briefly excavated by Mallowan in the 1930s, but Christie found it not to her liking, since rainfall was too sparse for the flowers she loved to grow; they split their time with another ancient mound farther north with a slightly wetter climate.

For instance, Dr Westra says, the devastating Queensland floods of 2011 superficially appeared to be caused by intense rainfall, but the flood wouldn't have had been so large if the catchments hadn't already been waterlogged from a very wet spring.

By 2050, deforestation could reduce rainfall across the Amazon Basin by 21 percent during dry seasons and 12 percent during wet seasonBy 2050, deforestation could reduce rainfall across the Amazon Basin by 21 percent during dry seasons and 12 percent during wet seasonby 21 percent during dry seasons and 12 percent during wet seasons.

As indicated by the June precipitation percentiles map below, the eastern United States and much of India were much wetter than average, with record rainfall across portions of India.

WET ™ could potentially eliminate irrigation costs and extend the geographical range of crops currently limited by insufficient rainfall.

The kinder, gentler model from the Hadley Centre for Climate Prediction and Research in the United Kingdom estimated a wetter, warmer future: Rainfall may increase 20 percent to 25 percent, mean annual temperatures could increase 2 degrees Fahrenheit by 2030 and 4 degrees by 2100.

By comparing the numbers of extreme rainfall events in the two ensembles, we can work out if the risk of a wet winter has increased, decreased or been unaffected by human influence on climatBy comparing the numbers of extreme rainfall events in the two ensembles, we can work out if the risk of a wet winter has increased, decreased or been unaffected by human influence on climatby human influence on climate.

By comparing the numbers of extreme rainfall events in the two ensembles, «Weather@Home» will work out if the risk of a wet winter has increased, decreased or been unaffected by human influence on climatBy comparing the numbers of extreme rainfall events in the two ensembles, «Weather@Home» will work out if the risk of a wet winter has increased, decreased or been unaffected by human influence on climatby human influence on climate.

Rather than just complaining that there's some strange wet substance falling from the sky, all new homes, large developments, and some redevelopment projects will start to appreciate those few rainy days by harvesting and redirecting rainfall.

But, broadly, climate scientists have warned that those climates already wet are likely to see higher levels of rainfall, and those already dry will get drier: by the century's end, more than half the terrestrial planet could be characterised as dryland, they have warned, and the Sahel could expect more drought and famine.

In June 2008, a record flood event exceeded the once - in -500-year flood level by more than 5 feet, causing $ 5 to $ 6 billion in damages from flooding, or more than $ 40,000 per resident of the city of Cedar Rapids.85 The flood inundated much of the downtown, damaging more than 4,000 structures, including 80 % of government offices, and displacing 25,000 people.86 The record flood at Cedar Rapids was the result of low reservoir capacity and extreme rainfall on soil already saturated from unusually wet conditions.

There is a note that rainfall reconstructions are noticably less satisfactory for very wet years - which has also been commented on by other tree ring observers.

[24] Bush Continental Airport broke its record for wettest calendar day by over five inches, receiving 16.07 inches of rain on August 27th, and Hobby Airport set a new two - day rainfall record with 23.06 inches August 26th - 27th, surpassing its previous record by nearly eight inches.

[3] October through December 2016 were very wet months in northern California (with precipitation totals about 170 percent of normal by 1 January 2017), but because several of the storms were warm rainfall, snow pack in California by 1 January was only 64 percent of normal.

October through December 2016 were very wet months in northern California (with precipitation totals about 170 % of normal by 1 January 2017), but because several of the storms were warm rainfall, snow pack in California by 1 January was only 64 % of normal.

But it was not difficult to build up a pretty good picture of wet and dry years, warm and cool years, floods, droughts, and quite a bit of temperature and rainfall data kept by weather obsessed farmers from the earliest times.

The drought did break, and the aggregated average annual rainfall for the Murray Darling Basin as calculated by the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) shows 2010 was the wettest year -LSB-...]

Deep water depletion and variability of rainfall in vulnerable (nearthreshold) forests — Nepstad et al. (2007) carried out a manipulation experiment on a central Amazon forest by reducing rainfall in the wet season by 60 percent.

However, in contrast, there has been an increase in the daily rainfall variability during July - August by five per cent, says the study.They evaluated how the characteristics of wet spells, with days of heavy rain, and dry spells have changed between two 30 - year periods, 1951 to 1980 and 1981 to 2011.

Analysis of extreme precipitation simulated by climate models has included the daily variability of anomalous precipitation (Zwiers and Kharin, 1998; McGuffie et al., 1999; Kharin and Zwiers, 2000), patterns of heavy rainfall (Bhaskran and Mitchell, 1998; Zhao et al., 2000b), as well as wet and dry spells (Thorncroft and Rowell, 1998; McGuffie et al., 1999).