Sentence examples for rainfall failure from inspiring English sources

3. Unpredictable drought involves an abnormal rainfall failure; it may occur almost anywhere but is most characteristic of humid and subhumid climates.

Starting from 2 weeks after incorporation of manures but a day after application of NPK fertilizer, soil samples were collected at every 2-week intervals from the net portion of each bed at a depth of 0 15 cm with the exception of 6 and 16 WAI due to rainfall failure.

"These kinds of rainfall failures have a lot of human effects," said Yoginder K. Alagh, chairman of the Institute of Rural Management and a former Indian minister.

After a series of debilitating rainfall failures in northern Ethiopia, a microdam construction programme was initiated in the 1990s to harvest rain water.

We present two case studies of rainfall-induced failure of engineered slopes.

The experimental results show that for each rainfall pattern, the failure depths and the times of failure from the same amount of rainfall with different durations could be largely different (Tsai and Wang 2011).

Consequently, groundwater together with rainfall, triggers the failure of sinkholes or cracks, which may induce a continuing process of new slope failures at the sites of past landslide.

The Great Drought (1276 99) probably caused massive crop failure; rainfall continued to be sparse and unpredictable until approximately 1450.

Moreover, sometimes the effects of decline in rainfall (and crop failure) on child hood anthropometries indices may not be visible as it could be prevented through public health measures [ 20].

These regions are susceptible to rainfall-induced slope failure issues, which is one among the major geo-disasters in China.

The Water Erosion Prediction Project (WEPP) model was used to simulate runoff and soil erosion during pre- and post-failure rainfall events.