Sentence examples for declines in rainfall from inspiring English sources

Averaged across the study area, all 15 GCMs project declines in rainfall under all global warming scenarios with a median decline of 8% resulting in a median decline in runoff of 25%.

In the 1990s, leaders of the Chipko movement in India argued that deforestation led to declines in rainfall (Hamilton 1992).

Initially researchers theorized that tropical deforestation would lead to regional and global cooling with corresponding declines in rainfall.

At the same time, declines in rainfall of up to 40% would hit northwest India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, western China, and neighboring western-central Asia.

This is consistent with the continent-wide finding that it is the southwestern arid zone of southern Africa that will be likely to suffer high declines in rainfall compared to the wetter parts, to the east of Namibia.

Brazil's Amazon continues to disappear at lightning speed, with agribusiness gaining land and profits at the expense of indigenous groups and sustainable agriculture, while a tipping point of destruction may produce unstoppable dry-out, fires, and declines in rainfall.

The southern region of Western Australia had a 20% decline in rainfall since the 1960s, said Abram.

While both mechanisms are present, this study shows that neither one is responsible for a decline in rainfall.

To take one case, a decline in rainfall of one standard deviation cuts Brazilian farm incomes by 4%.

He cited figures suggesting the southern Murray-Darling basin would suffer a 15% decline in rainfall, equivalent to a 35% decline in runoff.

But the dwindling groundwater was accompanied by a long term decline in rainfall in the region that affected farms watered from rivers.