We hypothesize that because native short grass species would be expected to be well-adapted to climate and soil conditions in areas with infrequent and erratic rainfall, their performance in terms of drought resistance, resilience to disturbance, and efficient resource use, will exceed that of a non-native species.
Marion Deland Dear Diary: Another Shakespeare in the Park observation: On a recent August evening there, with intermittent bouts of rainfall throughout the performance of "Much Ado About Nothing," the actor Jimmy Smits, as Benedick, stood at the top of a high balustrade, his eyes toward the heavens, giving a grand soliloquy.
But, compared to calibrating hydrologic model with rain gauge data, calibrating the model with corresponding satellite rainfall data increases the performance of satellite streamflow simulation while decreasing the performance of satellite evapotranspiration simulation (Bitew and Gebremichael 2011a, b).
"Depending on the performance of rainfall and markets over the coming months, the number of people in need of assistance could be the largest since hurricane Mitch in 1998," it said.
The results of this new technique are validated against PR data and indicate an encouraging performance concerning rainfall detection.
The investigation of effects of soil moisture on runoff prediction revealed that the addition of soil moisture data, along with rainfall, tremendously improves the performance of the model.
The impact of climate was largest for medium sized storms where the antecedent moisture condition (AMC) at the beginning of a rainfall event governs retention performance.
The atmosphere and rainfall significantly limit the performance of millimeter wave links and this has to be taken into account, particularly, during planning of high altitude platform (HAP) networks.
The fitted copulas are used, through the Monte Carlo simulation method, to generate synthetic rainfall events for system performance analysis in terms of sewer flooding and Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) discharges.
To focus on the system's performance under rainfall events likely to be of interest from an urban drainage/stormwater management perspective, return period analysis has been applied to identify those storm events with a rainfall depth in excess of 5 mm and a return period greater than one year.
