Dry Spells
Synchronicity of historical dry spells in the Southern Hemisphere
... simultaneous dry spells occurring during an El Niño event (noting that none occur during La ...short-term dry spells (with only one negative DMI ...recent dry periods SAM has been ...
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A synoptic study on seasonal patterns of wet and dry spells in midwest of Iran
... continues dry spell conditions in Midwest of ...in dry spells and shows a lower frequency rather than wet ...in dry spells [Figs; 5(c) ٫ 6(c) and ...
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Scale invariant events and dry spells for medium-resolution local rain data
... Table 1. Characteristics of all the sites for the 9-year period 2000–2008. Every site is named by the corresponding river basin or subbasin (the municipality is included in ambiguous cases); Ll. stands for Llobregat ...
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Characterization of Temporal Changes in Rainfall, Temperature, Flooding Hazard and Dry Spells over Zambia
... of dry spells in cases where rainfall totals may be ...November. Dry spell of 4 days duration were much more frequent than those of 7 and 10 ...to dry spells while Mpika was the least ...
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Determining spatial variability of dry spells: a Markov based method, applied to the Makanya catchment, Tanzania
... Mathugama and Peiris (2011) showed that many authors in different countries analysed long-term rainfall data related to dry spell characteristics with different techniques and vary- ing data availability. Although ...
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Temporal-Spatial Variability of the Severest Dry Spells in the North-West of Iran
... short dry periods in Khorasan, Iran, demonstrated the probability and frequency of dry ...studied dry spells in ...of dry spells shows that the frequency and stability of these ...
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Smartphone application to aid farmers on expected rainfall onset dates and associated seasonal risks of dry spells
... Onset of growing season in Uasin Gishu County is estimated by farmers through observation of weather and natural migration of birds. However, rainfall characteristics have become more unpredictable, resulting in ...
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Potential of deterministic and geostatistical rainfall interpolation under high rainfall variability and dry spells: case of Kenya’s Central Highlands
... The amount of soil-water available to crops depends on rain- fall onset, length and cessation which influence the success/ failure of a cropping season (Ngetich et al. 2014). Understand- ing climatic parameters, rainfall ...
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Validation of AOGCMs Capabilities for Simulation Length of Dry Spells under the Climate Change in Southwestern Area of Iran
... Methodology Methods for this study consisted of: climate change scenarios for the future under the A2 and B2 scenarios, downscaling AOGCMs output, analysis of the uncertainty of the mode[r] ...
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Dry spell length analysis for crop production using Markov-Chain model in Eastern Hararghe, Ethiopia
... the dry spell lengths over three districts and pointed out that dry spell lengths of the considered days: 5 days, 7 days, 10 days, 15 days and 20 days varies from place to place over the study areas of ...
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Evaluation of the Mitigation Strategies for Dry Spell impacts on Livestock Production in Homa Bay County, Kenya.
... Abstract- Dry spells are a major triggering factor of drought phenomena with devastating climatic hazards in many areas of the ...earth. Dry spells increase the risk of drought occurrence and ...
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Impact of the dry-day definition on Mediterranean extreme dry-spell analysis
... performs the GEV or lognormal since it provides lower mean relative RMSE (RRMSE) values in validation results on in- dependent samples. Quantiles corresponding to a 20-year re- turn period have been computed from a gamma ...
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Online Full Text
... of dry and wet spells is increasingly important in various sectors including hydrological and water resource ...weekly dry spells, while, the mixture log series and truncated geometric ...
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Defining the Australian monsoon onset: a systematic review
... Within the rainy season, [they] defined the period of monsoon influence or ‘the wet’ as the period between the first and last dates that the probability of 10-day dry spells fell below 0[r] ...
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Dry spell events in Brazil: historical analysis bin years of climatic contrast
... The dry spells events investigated by the routine were those of five days, analyzed separately during the four southern seasons divided in summer (December to February), autumn (March to May), winter (June ...
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Markov Chain Model for Probability of Weekly Rainfall in Mandya District, Karnataka
... like dry and wet spells could be used for analyzing rainfall data to obtain specific information needed for crop planning and for carrying out agricultural operations, Markov chain probability model has ...
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Temporal changes in precipitation and temperature and their implications on the streamflow of Rosi River, Central Nepal
... This study shows that the Rosi watershed has undergone changes in climatic parameters. We also observed that the region has undergone significant land-use transformation. The area has warmed up and received less ...
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A Birth Cohort Analysis of First Employment Spells
... The 15th and 20th cycles of the GSS are used to produce estimates of employment tenure. The two surveys were conducted throughout 2001 and 2006 and contain 24,310 and 22,435 records respectively. These datasets are ...
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Monthly Weather Bulletin May 2004
... 27th: Dry and clear overnight with mist in places. Dry with some sunny spells during the morning, becoming more cloudy in the afternoon with mist in places and winds strengthening in the ...
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Breath-Holding Spells Associated With Significant Bradycardia: Successful Treatment With Permanent Pacemaker Implantation
... of spells. Two had spells that consisted only of mild color change without loss of consciousness or seizure activity, 1 continued to have mild brief spells for the first year that subsequently ...
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