Sentence examples for quantity of precipitation from inspiring English sources

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

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

These processes and calculated variables vary across the landscape on the basis of variations in soil properties and bedrock, timing and quantity of precipitation and snowmelt, and energy balance calculations that include topographic shading and cloudiness, driven by air temperature.

The Puckorius scaling index (PSI) is used to account the buffering capacity and the maximum quantity of precipitation that can form in bringing water to equilibrium (Davil et al. 2009).

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.

He did not think that forests had an influence on climate at the global scale: "it does not seem probable that the forests sensibly affect the total quantity of precipitation, or the general mean of the atmospheric temperature of the globe" (Marsh 1864).

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.