Sentence examples for severity of droughts from inspiring English sources

At a continental scale, substantive impacts from climate change are expected on Africa's cropping systems, with severe high temperature episodes and increasing frequency and severity of droughts and floods potentially causing catastrophic failures in production [ 29].

This makes the severity of droughts worse.

Moreover, many scientists believe that global warming will increase the frequency and severity of droughts.

Climatologists say this could result in widespread climatic change, increase the frequency and severity of droughts and destructive storms and cause the sea level to rise.

So it may be that the perception of a global increase in the severity of droughts is driven by local increases.

In the northwestern U.S., these changes will likely decrease snowpack, cause earlier snowmelt, increase summer evapotranspiration, and increase the frequency and severity of droughts.

At 10 days after the initial drought treatment, the plant height showed varying degrees of reduction depending on the severity of drought treatment, from very slight to extremely severe.

To classify the severity of drought, we used a scoring tool where four pebbles denoted very severe, three pebbles for severe, two pebbles for modest, and one pebble for mild.

These changes are likely to exacerbate global water deficits and the frequency, extent and severity of drought.

In the 2011 China winter-spring drought event, the statistical model well predicted the spatial extent and severity of drought nationwide, although the severity was underestimated in the mid-lower reaches of Yangtze River (MLRYR) region.

The frequency and severity of drought and flooding is increasing in many regions of the world due to climate change but there has been limited research on the ability of acid sulfate soils to recover from these events.