The most important differentiating climatic element is rainfall; this, together with several other climatic elements, depends upon the characteristics of the dominating air mass.
Interestingly, the reduction of rainfall amounts, together with increasing population density and agricultural intensification, are leading northern Italy to a high level of sensitivity too.
This rainfall deficit, together with a continuing increase in potential evapotranspiration, suggests that runoff from the basin could be substantially reduced, especially in the long term (60 65%), compared to the 1961 1990 reference period.
Using the calibrated model parameters of gauged rainfall dataset together with the CFSR rainfall, the stream discharge for the Gilgel Abay was reproduced well but the discharge of the Main Beles was captured poorly partly because of the poor accuracy of the gauged rainfall dataset with none of the rainfall stations located inside the watershed.
In summary, our study in the Central Highlands of Vietnam showed that the risk of dengue increased during rainy months when monthly rainfall increased together with the increased vector population as indicated by the monthly HI, container index and BI.
But when both high storm surges and heavy rainfall are considered together, floods occur on average once every 105 years, the researchers report online today in Nature Climate Change.
Infiltration of rainfall into landfill together with the biochemical and chemical breakdown of the wastes produces leachate which is high in suspended solids and of varying organic and inorganic contents.
However, these factors are closely coupled as plant community composition and productivity correlate with precipitation (von Wehrden and Wesche, 2007), precipitation is partly a function of elevation (high mountain ranges catch the majority of the rainfall) and relief together with geology determines the location of water points.
Water – rainfall and rivers – brought together his interests in complexity and in geopolitics.
