News tagged with summer monsoon
Study projects weakened monsoon season in South Asia
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 27, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The South Asian summer monsoon - critical to agriculture in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan - could be weakened and delayed due to rising temperatures in the future, according to a recent ...
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 ...
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Sand dunes reveal unexpected dryness during heavy monsoon
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
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.
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 ...
Scientists offer new explanation for monsoon development
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Jul 21, 2008 |
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Geoscientists at the California Institute of Technology have come up with a new explanation for the formation of monsoons, proposing an overhaul of a theory about the cause of the seasonal pattern of heavy winds and rainfall ...
Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system
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Feb 04, 2008 |
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Anthropogenic forcing could push the Earth’s climate system past critical thresholds, so that important components may “tip” into qualitatively different modes of operation. In the renowned magazine Proceedings of ...
How trees manage water in arid environments
Jan 03, 2007 |
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Water scarcity is slowly becoming a fact of life in increasingly large areas. The summer of 2006 was the second warmest in the continental United States since records began in 1895, according to the National ...
Hot dust and moisture collide to fuel Asian summer rainy season
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Sep 07, 2006 |
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Who would think that something like dust in the air could trigger rain? According to a new NASA study, this is just what's happening over South Asia's Tibetan Plateau. Very small dust particles called aerosols ...
Experiment on Monsoon Season Rainfall Lives Up to its 'Name'
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May 02, 2006 |
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For many people, a monsoon brings to mind images of intense rainfall and high winds in faraway places. Actually, monsoons occur all over the globe, including North America. These seasonal reversals of winds ...
Earthquake Season in the Himalayan Front
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Dec 11, 2007 |
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Scientists have long searched for what triggers earthquakes, even suggesting that tides or weather play a role. Recent research spearheaded by Jean-Philippe Avouac, professor of geology and director of the Tectonics Observatory ...
Project seeks monsoon storm source
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Jun 02, 2006 |
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This monsoon season will be like no other, according to Joseph Zehnder, a meteorologist with Arizona State University. The reason is because it will be studied more extensively than any other monsoon season.
First evidence for a second breeding season among migratory songbirds
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Biologists for the first time have documented a second breeding season during the annual cycle of five songbird species that spend summers in temperate North America and winters in tropical Central and South ...
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