Sentence examples for the existing drought from inspiring English sources
This may not be sufficient for reliable quantification of the existing drought condition.
Yet, most of the existing drought monitoring indices are based on drought stress derived from environmental conditions rather than ecosystem responses.
Most of the existing drought indices are based on a single variable (e.g. precipitation) or a combination of two variables (e.g., precipitation and streamflow).
I thought about our own natural disasters: the existing drought as well as looming earthquakes, brush fires, and mudslides.
These poor rains would extend existing drought conditions, in southeastern parts resulting from the poor performance of the 2007 main and second rain seasons, and have negative impacts on already highly food insecure households.
Although rainfall was beneficial in many places due to an existing drought, cotton, pecan, and peanut crops were damaged by the floods.
This paper reviews historical and existing drought and water policy in Australia in order to gain a sense of the strengths and weaknesses in enabling effective adaptation to climate change.
If conditions got bad enough, L.A. could use its existing drought ordinance to ban landscape irrigation completely.
California's existing drought, in combination with a toxicity-related shortage, could be a much bigger problem than this has been.
No studies have specifically tied global warming to the drought, but it is consistent with computer models that indicate current climate trends will worsen existing droughts, Meehl said.
Fallin said she would amend an existing drought-related emergency declaration she issued earlier this year to allow hay-haulers to operate bigger trucks with heavier loads on the state's roads.
