Sentence examples for intense summer drought from inspiring English sources
Those rains are coming at the tail end of an intense summer drought in Southeast Asia that aggravated Indonesia's forest fire crisis and a heat wave Indian authorities blamed for more than 2,000 deaths.
The ponds can provide respite for wildlife from intense summer droughts and also help alleviate flooding during wetter months.
Several techniques were chosen to study changes in the hydrological response of a 1.53 km2 forest headwater to the exceptional climatic situation in summer 2005, when an intense early summer drought was followed by a wet summer.
For instance, after the intense 2005 drought in Amazonia, the forest suffered an additional mortality, leading to a huge loss of live biomass (Phillips et al. 2009) with similar mortality events observed in Panama (Condit 1995), in China (Tan et al. 2013) or in South-East Asia (Slik 2004).
Shifts in species composition and a decrease in riparian species richness were found in almost all studies as a result of periods of more intense, or prolonged summer drought.
Since 2000, droughts from September to December and January to March have been more severe compared with historical records, which has led to a more frequent and intense winter to spring drought and increased wildfires in Yunnan.
Heavy seasonal rains are a welcomed relief from intense summer and, importantly, they recharge drinking water supplies that dip to drought levels in the dry months.
Summer droughts are likely to become more intense in many parts of the world, due to a decrease in precipitation combined with an increase in evaporation in spring and summer (Wetherald & Manabe, 1999; Douville et al., 2002; Wang, 2005).
The sun was intense today.
The 2010 drought followed a similarly severe one in 2005 and a less intense one in 2007.
