Sentence examples for occurrence of rainfall from inspiring English sources

In order to study the effect of rainfall on traffic, the trend and occurrence of rainfall are a prerequisite.

After the occurrence of rainfall events, the volume of percolated water in lysimeters and the sediment and water losses in plots was measured.

All these areas are within high and very high hazard zones and are dominated by low slope, significant occurrence of rainfall, tertiary sand, ferralitic soil strongly desaturated and low drainage within the Abidjan district.

Especially, the precedent procedures consist of the building of the database, DEM construction, and determination of susceptibility value and vulnerability value in order to consider the overall debris flow potential in the target area, prior to the occurrence of rainfall and debris flow.

H.C. Peirera, then one of the world's renowned hydrologists, wrote in his 1973 book on water in temperate and climate regions: "There is no corresponding evidence as to any effects of forests on the occurrence of rainfall" (cited from Hamilton 1992).

If the occurrence of rainfalls at different rain gauges within a given concurrent period is similar (e.g. high correlation of the numbers of rainy hours within a given one-day interval), these gauges are thus considered as members of a homogeneous group.

This observation needs to be investigated further because it is contrary to the thinking that southern Africa is likely to get drier due to climate change and consequently has high occurrences of rainfall extreme events (Lioubimtseva and Henebry [2009]; Eriksen and Silva [2009]).

These findings can be explained largely by the prevailing low rainfall intensities and the frequent occurrence of small rainfall events.

For areas with a variable rainfall pattern and with equal probability of occurrence of normal rainfall, moderate stress or severe stress situations, breeders should combine MYI with a positive deviation in the performance of genotypes under all situations in order to select a variety with better performance under all situations over current varieties.

It is however expected that global warming will modify the occurrence of extreme rainfall events.

The capacity of such structures is usually designed to cater to the probability of occurrence of extreme rainfall during its lifetime.