Sentence examples for proportion of rain from inspiring English sources
In contrast, the proportion of rain versus snow was the primary control on source water variability at lower elevations.
In summer, convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds, and a large proportion of rain falls from showers and thunderstorms at this time of year.
"Increases in temperature alone cause increases in average winter runoff due to an increase in the proportion of rain to snow and hence a decrease in the storage of water in the snowpack during the winter months..
Although the overall climate of the Southwest may become drier over the coming decades, a greater proportion of the rain that does fall could be in the form of heavy precipitation events.
The coefficient C is a measure of the proportion of the rain which becomes runoff.
Most importantly, the palm studies indicate that museum model processes account for at least a proportion of tropical rain forest diversity, albeit in combination with other modes of diversification.
It will take a monsoon of epic proportions to rain out this game.
In areas of Mediterranean climate in Europe and Asia, scrublands occur over a wider climatic range, including areas receiving a larger proportion of average annual rain in summer—up to 40 percent of the annual 300 to 900 millimetres (12 to 35 inches).
A large proportion of the tropical rain forests of central Africa undergo periodic selective logging for timber harvesting.
Due to global warming the climate of central Chile is expected to experience dramatic changes in the 21st century including declining precipitation, earlier streamflow peaks, and a greater proportion of precipitation falling as rain.
This strong connection between the MTT and annual rainfall, rather than snowmelt, has strong implications for understanding future hydrological and biogeochemical processes in boreal regions, given that predicted warmer winters would translate into a greater proportion of precipitation falling as rain and thus shorter MTT in catchments.
