Sentences with phrase «what soil moisture»

We can take outputs of the models, for example, of what soil moisture is going to look like in the future, and look at the past to compare.

Not exact matches

Nor do they know what such changes mean for the food web; for life - cycle events like migration, breeding and nesting; for the amount of moisture that trees will suck from the soil; or for the amount of carbon dioxide stored by plants.

NASA mission controllers have successfully deployed the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) observatory's reflector antenna, in what is an important step along the road towards the satellite becoming fully operational.

What we see emerging is storms, fronts, the structure of the trposphere and stratosphere, precipitation patterns, soil moisture patterns, etc. etc..

Benjamin Sulman − a biologist at Indiana University, but then of the Princeton University Environmental Institute in the US − and colleagues report in Nature Climate Change that they have developed a new computer model to examine what really happens, on a global scale, when plants colonise the soil and start taking in moisture and carbon from the atmosphere.

In a category like agriculture, the experts looked, for example, at how soybean yields had varied with temperature in the past, and what a physiological simulation for wheat said about the response to changes in solar radiation and soil moisture.

But it is still uncertain what these rainfall and soil moisture deficits might mean for prolonged reductions of streamflow and lake and groundwater levels.

What I found more troublesome is that around the half hour mark after he has spoken about the linkages between temperature and soil moisture and the carbon cycle he says (nearly verbatim) regarding AR4:

From the Southwest to the Great Lakes, temperatures have been so high and rainfall so low that the drying effect of warmer air temperatures far exceeded what little precipitation there's been, resulting in moisture being drawn out of soils.

(Both cause plant cover to decrease which causes soil moisture decreases often making storms less frequent, less regular, less predictable and more intense, further decreasing plant cover, reducing or killing crops, eroding soil (leading to decreased fertility, water pollution, etc.) and spiraling down into desertification and the creation of wasteland from what had been a fertile, verdant landscape.