Sentence examples for rainfall irregularity from inspiring English sources
Conversely, species that inhabit less frequently inundated environments with high climatic variability and rainfall irregularity may be more susceptible to mortality from flooding (Adis & Junk, 2002; Plum, 2005).
It is found to be statistically significant annual rainfall irregularities across the whole recorded years in LTSB at the 5 % level of significance.
SPI refers to rainfall anomaly (irregularity) on multiple time scales; X represents annual rainfall in the year t; (overset{lower0.5emhbox{$smash{scriptscriptstylerightharpoonup}$}}{text{X}}) is the long-term mean rainfall; and σ represents the standard deviation over the period of observation (McKee et al. 1993; Woldeamlak 2009).
The main aim is to analyse temporal irregularity of rainfall aggressiveness in large geographic areas and to extract spatio-temporal patterns.
Irregularities of rainfall occurred during the period of the study (Table 1).
The worst feature of the area's climate is the irregularity of the rainfall, as a result of which severe droughts plague the region.
Although some attenuation and delay of peak runoff is generally observed (mean peak flow reduction of 60% for the 21 significant events), the irregularity of natural rainfall patterns, combined with the variable influence of detention storage in specific events, makes the identification of peak-to-peak lag times difficult and arguably meaningless.
Currently, rainfall is characterized by a great intra- and inter-annual irregularity (Frappart et al. 2009).
The first type, typical of summer and early autumn, consists of fast events characterized by intense rainfall concentrated at the beginning of the storm and high values of persistence and irregularity.
The rainfall concentration at annual-, southwest monsoon-, and winter-scales exhibits significant decreasing trends, implying decline in the degree of irregularity in annual- and seasonal-rainfall.
