Sentence examples for degree of aridity from inspiring English sources

Vegetation zones depend upon the degree of aridity, which increases from south to north.

Plants and animals are scarce and consist of species that can withstand the high degree of aridity and heat.

In the Sahara, 200 consecutive rainless days in a year have been recorded in many areas, and the world's highest degree of aridity has been recorded at Sabhā, which averages only 0.4 inch (10 mm) of precipitation annually.

This is speculatively linked to CO2 turnover rates and the degree of aridity.

They also imply that dust emissions are not simply a function of the degree of aridity in source areas, but respond to a more complex array of conditions, including sediment availability.

However, such factors as the temperature, humidity, rate of evaporation and evapotranspiration, and the moisture storage capacity of the ground have a marked effect on the degree of aridity and the plant and animal life that can be sustained.

Indeed, vegetation pattern formation has been identified with mathematical instabilities of uniform vegetation states, occurring at threshold degrees of aridity.

Historical streamgage data were assembled from 138 mostly unimpaired basins (Figure 1), along with reconstructed unimpaired flows from 21 additional basins, and monthly and yearly summaries from streamgages were used to test how well the BCM model outputs perform on watersheds with varying bedrock permeability, soil properties, impermeable surfaces, and degrees of aridity.

The study area covers highly diverse habitats, including coastal mangroves, the Guineo-Congolese equatorial rainforest block, forest-savanna mosaic and different types of savanna characterized by increasing degrees of aridity culminating in xeric and predesertic steppes at higher latitudes.

The degree of climate aridity and soil type also affect potential hydrologic response to climate, with the deep unsaturated zones in arid regions or the deep soils of California's Central Valley storing water when available from wet climate cycles that can be used as groundwater during dry periods (Flint and Flint 2007).

2La polymorphism is widespread in Africa and originally was noted for the allele frequency correlation with degree of environmental aridity (Coluzzi et al. 1979; Powell et al. 1999).