What is groundwater remediation? What is groundwater replenishment? What is floodplain management? What is orographic rainfall? What is aquifer depletion? What is the goal of restoration ecology? What is an eco
What is rainfall? What is anticyclone in meteorology? What is the wind speed of a tornado? What is anemometer? What are Foehn winds? Hail is usually associated with what cloud? What is chaos in meteorology? What is a circumpolar vortex?
Orographic rainfall is rain that is produced from the lifting of moist air over a mountain.The moist air rises and cools, producing orographic clouds, which are the source of the rain. Most orographic rain falls upwind of the mountain range, with some also falling a short distance downwind. ...
Strong earthquake ground shaking increases the likelihood of landslides in certain areas. If the ground is saturated with water, particularly following heavy rainfall, the shaking will result in more landslides than normal. e said: "As a result of the Turkey earthquake, the hazard...
Orographic or relief rainfall. Cyclonic or frontal rainfall. What is duration of precipitation? Due to the historic practice of reading rain gauges on a daily basis, most rainfall distributions use a24-hour duration. Although shorter durations are sometimes used for special purposes (such as water ...
Daily maximum and minimum temperatures are on the rise, while projections indicate a decrease in rainfall and increase in temperature both in the near and far future. The implication of these changes on society and the economy are discussed herein. Cost of inaction is expected to become huge, ...
What is Stormwater? In rural environments, rainfall infiltrates into the ground. With heavy rainfall, there is either not enough time for infiltration to occur, or the ground becomes saturated with water. The excess floods low-lying areas and swells the adjacent creeks, tributaries, and rivers. ...
Rainfall is almost always to blame for inland floods. Rain causes inland flooding in two ways. It can happen with steady rainfall over several days or it can happen because of a short and intense period of rainfall. Snowmelt also causes inland floods, although rainfall is a more common cause...
When will fire-ravaged, wind-pummeled, dried-out Los Angeles County get some relief? A reprieve from dangerous fire weather is on tap for the weekend, but forecasters warn that another round of punishing winds may hit the region next week, re-upping ...
The Santa Ana winds have turned seasonal wildfires into infernos that have leveled neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles, where there has been no significant rainfall in more than eight months. Southern California’s winds typically flow onshore from the Pacific, carrying moist ...