News tagged with rainfall patterns
Planning strategies needed to protect food sources
Aug 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Climate change and urban expansion could threaten the sustainability of horticultural industries in the Adelaide Hills unless a long-term strategy is employed, according to a senior geographer at the University ...
Aerosols -- their part in our rainfall
Feb 12, 2009 |
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Aerosols may have a greater impact on patterns of Australian rainfall and future climate change than previously thought, according to leading atmospheric scientist, CSIRO's Dr. Leon Rotstayn.
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Rainfall to decrease over Iberian Peninsula
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 23, 2009 |
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Scientists have recorded a decline in winter precipitation over the past 60 years in Spain, and they now forecast that precipitation will also decrease in spring and summer. A team from the Pyrenean Institute ...
Tuesday wettest day of week in Manchester, suggests new analysis
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Oct 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Tuesday is the wettest day of the week, suggests new analysis of rainfall data for Manchester.
Researchers Use Sun Cycle to Predict Rainfall Fluctuations
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Dec 02, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Under the weather: Early-life rainfall has lasting effect on Indonesian women
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Jun 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Indonesian women born into rural communities in rainy years grow taller, stay in school longer and live in households with greater wealth than women born in years with lower rainfall, a new University of ...
Human activities can affect rainfall
Jun 20, 2006 |
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U.S. researchers say they've determined human activities in arid urban environments can affect the rainfall and water cycle.
Drought limits tropical plant distributions, scientists report
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May 02, 2007 |
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Drought tolerance is a critical determinant of tropical plant distributions, researchers working at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama report in the journal Nature, May 3. In a novel coupli ...
NASA data link pollution to rainy summer days in the southeast
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Feb 02, 2008 |
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Rainfall data from a NASA satellite show that summertime storms in the southeastern United States shed more rainfall midweek than on weekends. Scientists say air pollution from humans is likely driving that trend.
Monsoon rainfall amount stable for decades
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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.
Australian rainfall – a view of the future
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Oct 04, 2007 |
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Southern Australia will continue to experience a reduction in rainfall in winter and spring, the impact of which will be magnified by increased temperatures.
Floods to become commonplace by 2080
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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Flooding like that which devastated the North of England last year is set to become a common event across the UK in the next 75 years, new research has shown.
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