Sentences with phrase «winter precipitation recorded»

To test the accuracy of these modeled data, we compared values from the Verde ponderosa pine PRISM modeled data to measurements of total winter precipitation recorded during the original Beaver Creek experiments [31].

Not exact matches

«The winter discharge of the Tanana River has increased since the record keeping began in the»70s, but there are no increasing trends in precipitation,» she said.

Isotopic analysis of the guano pile in the M?gurici Cave resulted in a near annual record of winter precipitation for the region.

Using historical records of precipitation, a relationship between winter precipitation and NAO phases was established.

The Alaska winter precipitation total was 7.85 inches, 0.30 inch below average, and ranked near the median value in the 1925 - 2015 record.

Despite a near - average winter precipitation total for California, Oregon, and Washington, the record warmth caused most of the precipitation to fall as rain and not snow, which had implications on the drought intensification and water resource crisis during the warm months.

On top of that, temperatures have been extremely warm — the winter of 2014 - 2015 was the hottest on record for California — which meant that what precipitation did fall often did so as rain and not snow.

July 4, 2017 • Fire officials warn that an abundance of fresh brush, the result of record - setting precipitation this winter in California and the Southwest, could provide plenty of fuel for wildfires this summer.

The first kind of precipitation whiplash is from year to year, meaning that we'll see more extraordinarily dry years followed by incredibly wet years — in the way California's five - year drought ended in 2017 in one of the wettest winters on record.

Global solar irradiance reconstruction [48 — 50] and ice - core based sulfate (SO4) influx in the Northern Hemisphere [51] from volcanic activity (a); mean annual temperature (MAT) reconstructions for the Northern Hemisphere [52], North America [29], and the American Southwest * expressed as anomalies based on 1961 — 1990 temperature averages (b); changes in ENSO - related variability based on El Junco diatom record [41], oxygen isotopes records from Palmyra [42], and the unified ENSO proxy [UEP; 23](c); changes in PDSI variability for the American Southwest (d), and changes in winter precipitation variability as simulated by CESM model ensembles 2 to 5 [43].

During 2017, the season with the largest negative anomaly was the winter, making it the second driest winter in the ERA - Interim record in terms of precipitation.

Instrumental records have shown that hydroclimatic variability across the American Southwest is mostly structured around cool - season precipitation regimes, with a few winter storms typically contributing a disproportionately large amount of the annual precipitation across this region [15].

I do know that the winters in my neck of the woods have been colder, not warmer; longer, not shorter; with more precipitation than that recorded in decades.

While derived from sea surface temperature data, the PDO index is well correlated with many records of North Pacific and Pacific Northwest climate and ecology, including sea level pressure, winter land — surface temperature and precipitation, and stream flow.

While winter precipitation came in near record levels, snow pack did not.

Sea levels are rising (ask the Mayor of Miami who has spent tax monies to raise road levels), we've had 15 of the hottest years eve measured, more precipitation is coming down in heavy doses (think Houston), we're seeing more floods and drought than ever before (consistent with predictions), the oceans are measuring warmer, lake ice in North America is thawing sooner (where it happens in northern states and Canada), most glaciers are shrinking, early spring snowpacks out west have declined since the 1950's, growing seasons are longer throughout the plains, bird wintering ranges have moved north, leaf and bloom dates recorded by Thoreau in Walden have shifted in that area, insect populations that used to have one egg - larva - adult cycle in the summer now have two, the list goes on and on.

Most of these paleohydrological records primarily reflect winter and spring precipitation.

Because of the milder winter «weather», records are being broken all the time with precipitation, most likely the record of over 5000 mm is in danger.