When it rains, it can flood; when rainfall is scarce, crops dry up.
The drop comes after a record high last year, when rainfall was above average.
As expected, they found that severe burning events happened in years when rainfall was below a certain level.
When rainfall is heavy, Mr. Li said his house swayed so much "you can hear the tiles cracking on the roof".
The region's reservoirs won back some of their normal volume during March and April, when rainfall was near normal and water-use regulations were eased in many places.
For example, there is a business case for a commercial farmer to invest in irrigation to ensure higher yields when rainfall becomes more erratic.
Eluviation, Removal of dissolved or suspended material from a layer or layers of the soil by the movement of water when rainfall exceeds evaporation.
Electricity is produced through several hydroelectric power plants in the state; however, during times when rainfall is scarce, power must be imported.
That, in turn, would have reduced precipitation, and when rainfall declined, so did the rainforests.
Scheduling efficiency values (measure of over-irrigation) decreased for all treatments when rainfall increased.
The most important divergence point occurs when rainfall drops below the critical desertification level.
