Sentence examples for scarce rainfall from inspiring English sources

Scattered, scarce rainfall had left them a drab olive color.

Most important, the report added, the region's scarce rainfall means caves are not likely to become waterlogged or damp.

Trees are widely spaced and the soil in between is kept bare to reduce competition with weeds for the scarce rainfall.

Our study aims at analyzing different rainfall interpolation schemes with regard to their suitability to produce spatial rainfall estimates in a monsoon dominated region with scarce rainfall measurements.

The high temperatures and scarce rainfall produce salt flats in the shallowest sections of the lake and on the southern and southeastern sides.

The risks expose the ASALs in the region to the challenge of exponential costs occasioned by unreliable, highly variable, and scarce rainfall for their livestock and crop production (Tol et al. 1998; Bhatt et al. 2006; Cooper et al. 2012).

The organization says the current food and nutrition crisis stems from scarce rainfalls in 2011, which caused poor harvests and livestock production.

The cultivars M. Palieri, Italia, Red Globe, and Negroamaro were grown in the experimental farm of CRA-UTV in Turi (BA), during 2010 and 2011 with the "tendone" system, a typical cultivation method in the Puglia region (South Italy) whose climate is characterized by scarce rainfalls [ 12].

Scarce annual rainfall of less than 15 to 18 inches (380 to 460 mm) in the Ebro basin makes irrigation important.

Located on the southwest coast of Africa, the region has scarce, unpredictable rainfall and no streams.

Fresh water is an even more precious commodity than oil today as this is seen as a rapidly diminishing resource through over use of aquifers with scarce and unpredictable rainfall not replenishing the needs of these countries which increasing rely on reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination of seawater but at a cost in terms of energy.