Combined with recent improvements in the chronologies of Late Quaternary shorelines fringing inland lake basins and deflation during arid times, these data collectively reaffirm that Australia generally became increasingly, albeit irregularly, drier from the last interglaciation through to the last glacial maximum.
Difficulties associated with working in semi-arid regions include data scarcity.
In this study, the proposed model was applied and evaluated in five sub-areas of Hetao Irrigation District in arid northwestern China using data of 14 years (2000 2013).
This research aims to analyze short duration rainfall data in arid regions, to propose design storm distributions representatives of the recorded storms.
Soil inorganic carbon (C) represents a substantial C pool in arid ecosystems, yet little data exist on the contribution of this pool to ecosystem C fluxes.
Combined with pollen, charcoal, and bulk geochemical analyses, the δ2Halkane data indicate arid conditions during the late-Pleistocene, but differing edaphic conditions at the sites perhaps related to differing water table depths.
The objectives of this study were to consider the effects of urban land use on air temperature changes in an arid city based on data collected in Isfahan, Iran at a local scale.
The investigated area's environment is representative of conditions which lead to the best possible GPR data quality: arid conditions, no interference due to electrical power lines, and an elevated study area (~5 10 m a.m.s.l).l
"What's neat about this study," says ecologist James Reynolds of Duke University, is that it tests models of how CO2 acts on arid lands with real data.
In this paper we synthesise existing palaeoenvironmental data from the arid and semi-arid interior of the Australian continent for the period 40 0 ka.
