Sentence examples for drought trend from inspiring English sources

During 25.15 22.25 ka, the shift to typical steppe highlighted the drought trend.

The drought trend was carried out using a Modified Mann Kendall trend test which yielded no clear trends that suggested the need for longer records of data.

This slowdown in diversification could be explained by the effects of extinction associated with the extreme drought trend that culminated with the Messinian salinity crisis [ 65], which led to the replacement across the Mediterranean Basin of an ancestral "tropical-like" flora by new sclerophyllous plant communities [ 66].

First, the data may not yet be good enough to measure long-term drought trends accurately.

This most sophisticated metric has led different teams of researchers to very different conclusions about drought trends.

The results indicate that although all the aridity zones experience both downward and upward drought trends, no significant trend is found over large parts of the zones.

Although the study points out the flaws of using PDSI to estimate global drought trends, the revision doesn't change the picture equally in different parts of the world, noted Piers Forster, a climate physicist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom, in a statement to the United Kingdom's Science Media Centre on 14 November.

The results of the non-parametric Mann Kendall test applied to the SPI and SPEI series indicate prevailing significant negative trends (drought) at all stations.

Overall, the majority of China has experienced an increasing trend of both drought frequency and drought intensity for the period 1991 2014, while drought duration slightly decreased (by 0 25%%) for most areas of China.

The latest IPCC assessment, published last year, found some signs of more droughts but concluded that "there is not enough evidence at present to suggest more than low confidence in a global-scale observed trend in drought... since the middle of the 20th century".

Wu et al. (2011) found a significant increasing trend of drought frequency, particularly in North China.