Sentence examples for quantities of precipitation from inspiring English sources

Wyoming's mountains may receive much larger quantities of precipitation.

The park region receives large quantities of precipitation annually, especially on the western slope of Mount Rainier.

Although the massifs of the dry tropics often receive small quantities of precipitation throughout the year, the lowlands have a single summer maximum.

Regionally, they act as an orographic barrier to storms from the Pacific Ocean, which especially in winter bring large quantities of precipitation to the western slopes of the ranges.

Beginning in May, the warm, humid air masses of the southwest monsoon flow northeastward over the region from the Indian Ocean, depositing great quantities of precipitation; rainfall reaches a maximum in September.

In Germany this effect could come from large quantities of precipitation, especially in the mountain areas and along the coastline, with counter-productive effects due to a shorter vegetation period in the mountainous areas and strong winds along the coast (Friend and Woodward 1990; Pretzsch et al. 2015).

By reducing the quantity of precipitation reaching the ground, a green façade can contribute to a more natural way of rainwater drainage.

However, most climate models forecast that the state is likely to receive the same quantity of precipitation that it has historically; it will just arrive more erratically via bigger floods, accompanied by more frequent and more severe droughts.

Mere lack of rainfall does not a desert make, since the real issue is not so much the absolute quantity of precipitation in an area (in the form of rain, fog, snow, or dew) as the ratio of that precipitation to the rate of evaporation.

The estimation of the recurrence rate and the distribution in severity of extreme ice events, which is required in order to determine design criteria for structures such as electric transmission lines, suffers from the fact that there appears to be a great variability in freezing rain events, in terms of duration, quantity of precipitation, and wind speed.

Water stress is not just a question of the quantity of precipitation, but also evaporation rates, amongst other variables (Lioubimtseva and Henebry 2009).