Sentence examples for precipitation less than from inspiring English sources
The climate in this area is Sahelian with little precipitation (less than 500 mm per year).
Iran is located in a semi-arid area with an average annual precipitation less than one-third of that of the world (Baghvand et al. 2010).
This river transfers water from high-lands with annual precipitation less than 400 mm to the lowlands in the south of the Caspian with annual precipitation of above 1000 mm.
As a result of the rain shadow effect of the Cascades, the Spokane area has 16.5 inches average annual precipitation, less than half of Seattle's 37 inches.
The habitats of A. mongolicus are marked by arid climate with an annual precipitation less than 200 mm but a mean annual evaporation up to 3000 mm.
While temperature is a central concern, climate change entails shifts in temporal and spatial patterns of precipitation – less easy to model than temperature – and in winds, ocean currents, and overall short-term variability.
Uncertainty analysis of the downscaled precipitation indicated that the uncertainty in the downscaled precipitation was less than the uncertainty in the original CGCM3.1 precipitation; hence, the CGCM3.1 downscaled precipitation was a better input for the regional hydrological impact studies.
The driest region receives annual precipitation of less than 30 inches (800 mm), while precipitation in the wettest region normally exceeds 40 inches (1,000 mm); precipitation occasionally exceeds 55 inches (1,400 mm) in the northeast.
In some depressed areas, notably the Transylvanian Plateau, the total annual precipitation is less than 24 inches (600 millimetres), while precipitation in the mountains at 2,600 feet (800 metres) above sea level is about 45 inches, and on the highest massifs it reaches 65 to 70 inches.
According to Ellis (1995), in regions where the annual precipitation is less than 250 mm and the CV exceeds 33%, precipitation is variable and the vegetation dynamics is strongly affected by precipitation.
Deserts are defined as areas with an average annual precipitation of less than 250 mm per year, or as areas where more water is lost by evapotranspiration than falls as precipitation.
