Sentence examples for aridity indices from inspiring English sources

Linear regression analyses were performed between groundwater recharge and surface runoff and aridity indices of the sites.

Thus, aridity indices (AIs) can theoretically represent suitable predictors of decomposition and comminution processes at landscape scale.

We further divided reported mean long term rainfall by PET values to obtain aridity indices for the individual study sites using Eq. (1) as described by UNESCO (1979): mathrm{AI}=frac{Pleft(mathrm{mm};{mathrm{year}}^{hbox 1}right)}{mathrm{PET};left(mathrm{mm};{mathrm{year}}^{hbox 1}right)} (1).

Even with this caveat, there is a striking pattern: D. subobscura from the invasive North American populations have much higher desiccation and starvation tolerance than those from Europe and South America, although the precipitation patterns and aridity indices generally overlap with the range in ancestral Europe.

The crop pattern shows highest correlation with wind erosion with continuous division and after that, aridity index indicates correlation with crop pattern.

Evapotranspiration plays a significant role in the water balance of semi-arid tropical regions as indicated by an Aridity Index of 0.6 in this study, compared to humid regions where the index is mostly well above 1.

Therefore, we selected two layers which are likely to be important to C. decresii given that the species is a semi-arid, rocky habitat specialist: mean annual aridity index (the monthly ratio of precipitation to potential evaporation and an indicator of dryness) and topographic relief (the range in elevation).

The sources of soil moisture spatial variation at the site in central Italy are time-variant within the year and the seasonal change of topographic dependence can be conveniently correlated to a climate indicator such as the aridity index.

Application of regression trees and random forest techniques identified the most important criteria affecting desertification and recognized that indicators such as wind erosion, technology development, aridity index, slope index, precipitation, vegetation state and land use change are major indicators affecting the quality of criteria and desertification in the Taybad-Bakharz.

We hereby focus into the dryland areas with an aridity index below 0.65 in Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania which include arid, semi-arid as well as sub-humid zones (Figure 1).

Finally, we created the variable aridity = -ln(Q) so that more arid stations get higher values of the aridity index.