Sentence examples for often droughts from inspiring English sources

The SPI is a statistical measure to detect unusual weather events making it possible to determine how often droughts of certain strength are likely to occur.

Most often, drought is a mere annoyance to the Kuchis of the Registan Desert, for these nomads can find water where others cannot.

That was my first experience of the 800-mile-long Narmada river that flows through three Indian states – Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and the often drought-afflicted Gujarat, before flowing into the Indian Ocean.

Most often drought analysis methodologies are based on point-wise time series record assessments with very specific local conclusions, but their areal, regional and in general spatial properties are examined to a lesser extent.

The study, published online today in the Journal of Climate, describes what future rain will look like in a typical year, but doesn't comment on how often drought might loom over southern California.

Our biggest surprise was how often drought came up without us mentioning it.

Rural households can often survive droughts and other shocks because they have diverse income sources and may survive by sellingcan sell assets or use reserves from wild foods or by mutual assistance – and there is no direct link between a crop failure or other "shock" and hunger.

Ethiopia's teff is surprisingly resilient, sprouting in the roughest of regions and often defying drought.

Indian newspapers are filled with accounts of fights between states or neighbors over access to lakes and reservoirs, and of "suicide farmers," driven to despair by poverty, debt, and often by drought.

We do not know how often such drought periods recur.

Lentil (Lens culinaris, Medik). is an important legume crop, which often experience drought stress especially at the flowering and grain filling phenological stages.