Sentence examples for rainfall less from inspiring English sources

The ridges were dry in that part of Washington — rainfall less than eight inches a year.

We were traveling in the Sierra's rain shadow, where the low rainfall — less than six inches most years — results in a color scheme for the wide-open landscape that runs to browns and muted greens.

Swales significantly reduced total volume and flow magnitudes generally during events with rainfall less than 3 cm.

Negative responses were more frequent in sites where conditions contributed to severe water deficits, i.e. lower seasonal rainfall, less available soil water at sowing, and greater evaporative demand.

A significant rainfall gradient is evident in the Mara, with mean annual rainfall less in the southeast (877 mm), increasing towards the north-west (1341 mm).

This new model can be used in all semi-arid areas which have an annual rainfall less than 700 mm/year.

As a result of the increase of DMR, heavy rainfalls contributed more and light rainfalls less to annual precipitation than under current conditions.

In Iran, the average annual rainfall is less than 250 mm, which is less than one-third of the average rainfall in the world (800 mm).

Thus, the decreasing rainfall means less recharge and more temperatures mean higher PET, which again implies less capacity to recharge the SAs.

Annual rainfall is less than 4 inches (100 mm).

In 2011, Texas' driest year on record, the average rainfall was less than 15in.