News tagged with monsoon rains
Indonesian elephant fossil opens window to past
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Indonesian scientists are reconstructing the largest, most complete skeleton of a prehistoric giant elephant ever found in the tropics, a finding that may offer new clues into the largely mysterious ...
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Monsoon rainfall amount stable for decades
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 01, 2006 |
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Heavy rains balanced by less frequent moderate rain during India's monsoon season keep the rain amounts in check, researchers said.
Climate models don't tell the full story
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Oct 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate models that predict heavy rainfall don’t give the whole picture, according to the results of a study by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research) scientist Martin Ziegler. He examined ...
Irrigation decreases, urbanization increases monsoon rains
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Dec 15, 2009 |
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A Purdue University scientist has shown man-made changes to the landscape have affected Indian monsoon rains, suggesting that land-use decisions play an important role in climate change.
Dry spells spelled trouble in ancient China: Weakening of summer monsoons to blame
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Nov 06, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Chinese history is replete with the rise and fall of dynasties, but researchers now have identified a natural phenomenon that may have been the last straw for some of them: a weakening of ...
Rains offer hope for bird virus outbreak
Jan 28, 2008 |
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An outbreak of avian flu in Murchidabad, India, may have been temporarily restrained thanks to a series of unseasonal rains.
Global monsoon drives long-term carbon cycles in the ocean
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May 08, 2009 |
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Monsoon is a global system, and many arrays of evidence indicate that it drives long-term cyclicity of the carbon reservoir in the global ocean. The new view is introduced in a substantial paper in Issue 7 (April 2009) of ...
West African Ocean sediment core links monsoons to global climate evolution
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May 31, 2007 |
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Monsoons, the life-giving, torrential rains of Asia and Africa, have an ancient, unsuspected connection to previous Ice Age climate cycles, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and at Kiel ...
Tropical storms endure over wet land, fizzle over dry
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Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If it has already rained, it's going to continue to pour, according to a Purdue University study of how ocean-origin storms behave when they come ashore.
Arizona monsoons unpredictable
Jun 18, 2007 |
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The Arizona monsoon season produces up to a third of the region's annual rainfall but it is tough for forecasters to predict.
Sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon
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Oct 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The windswept deserts of northern China might seem an odd destination for studying the heavy monsoon rains that routinely drench the more tropical regions of Southeast Asia.
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