For decades, scientists have considered hydropower as a cheap but clean source of energy, renewable
yearly by rainfall and snow.
Not exact matches
Yearly average
rainfall in Temecula is approximately 14 inches, as compiled
by the Rancho California Water District.
New research predicts that
by the middle of the century annual
rainfall in the Amazon could be less than the
yearly amount of rain the region receives during drought years if deforestation rates revert back to pre-2004 levels.
These
yearly rings change with temperature and
rainfall, so they could read past weather
by calibrating ring widths of living trees with instrumental data from 1959 - 2009, then comparing these with the innards of much older trees.
While Houston's
yearly risk of experiencing a 500 - millimeter
rainfall event was around 1 in 2,000 at the end of the last century, Emanuel found the city's annual odds will increase significantly, to one in 100
by the end of this century.