Sentence examples for kept rainfall from inspiring English sources

These suggested that periodic pulses of cold water from the Antarctic along the South American coast could indeed have kept rainfall low, and these cold periods also seem to match times of very rapid uplift in Andean height.

A cold, dry band of air over the Pacific Ocean east of Taiwan kept rainfall to 65 inches last year, the island's Water Resources Agency says.

Apart from high costs of production, temperature for instance, affect the cropping pattern and type of livestock kept whereas rainfall amount, distribution, reliability and intensity determine the crops grown, livestock kept and soil treatment required (Jaetzold and Schmidt 1983; Obanyi et al. 2009).

Photo: Rainfall kept the track at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway closed yesterday for what was to have been the first day of qualifying for the Indy 500.

The DP of TDC_B (rainfall intensity linearly increased with time) was the lowest, while that of TDC_E (rainfall intensity kept constant with time) was the greatest.

Light rainfall has kept Syria's crops from disaster over the winter, but as the dry season approaches, there's trouble ahead and it could derail already beleaguered humanitarian aid effort.

Rainfall arrived, farmers rejoiced, grain crops grew and then the rain kept on falling.

This normally keeps the local rainfall below 700mm a year.

In addition, absolute humidity and rainfall profiles predicted similar risks in geographic locations in north and west Africa, but a model including the former performed better for the entire continent than one including rainfall; for this reason, we kept absolute humidity as a variable.

This is noteworthy, as mean annual rainfall and inter-annual variation was kept constant.

During this period, animals were kept dry (ie., not exposed to natural rainfall) and monitored for occurrence of flystrike (as animals are more susceptible at this time).