Sentence examples for duration of droughts from inspiring English sources
"Climate change is projected to increase the frequency, intensity and duration of droughts," the agency's secretary general, Michel Jarraud, said.
"Climate change is projected to increase the frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts, with impacts on many sectors, in particular food, water, health and energy," WMO secretary general Michel Jarraud said.
And the World Meteorological Organization, a division of the United Nations, recently warned that climate change was "projected to increase the frequency, intensity and duration of droughts, with impacts on many sectors, in particular food, water and energy".
Frequency and duration of droughts in the SAC regions were observed to increase about 9.2 and 1.5 months, respectively, and drought severity index intensified to about −0.15.
Climate change has already begun to impact the structure and function of forest ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest by altering the frequency, intensity, and duration of droughts and heat stress, with implications for widespread environmental and socio-economic change.
For example, an increased frequency and duration of droughts result in a transformation of the functional role of wetlands to be a source rather than a sink of CO2 for the atmosphere (Bohn et al. 2013; Olchev et al. 2013, 2013).
"If we were able to get longer lead times in terms of severity of drought, duration of drought, and when it may potentially end," that would be helpful in planning, Preston said.
A change in climate can alter the frequency and duration of drought especially in arid and semi-arid regions.
The knowledge obtained is useful to decide the duration of drought that causes discernible modification in root system and can help identification of genetic variation for such adaptation.
A warming climate is expected to perturb the hydrological cycle, resulting in changes to both the frequency and duration of drought, especially in arid and semiarid grassland.
Drought imposed to peanut at early growth stages could change root distribution patterns of peanut, and the change in root distribution patterns was more pronounced with long duration of drought.
