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pluvial

  1. of, relating to, or due to the action of rain.
  2. any period during which the climate was wetter than now, usually applied to periods during the PLEISTOCENE EPOCH.
Collins Dictionary of Biology, 3rd ed. © W. G. Hale, V. A. Saunders, J. P. Margham 2005
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Lahore, probably Pakistan's most developed metropolis, has become critically vulnerable to pluvial flooding.
Why Lahore gets flooded every year - and how to stop it
Paul Bates, chairman and co-founder of Fathom, said his firm's inland pluvial and fluvial model has already identified 27 million Americans left out of FEMA's 100-year flood zones.
Foundation Is Working to Report Flood Risk for Every U.S. Property
Meteorological drought and pluvial events are defined using the standardized precipitation index (SPI) at multiple severity thresholds.
FUTURE PROJECTIONS OF GLOBAL DROUGHT AND PLUVIAL EVENT CHARACTERISTICS
Figure 2 shows the variables of flows withdrawn for irrigation, crop evapotranspiration, pluvial precipitation and effective precipitation, monthly means of long duration (period from 2002 to 2011), in the Dourados River Basin.
Water seasonality in granting permits and impact of irrigation in the dourados river basin, MS, Brazil/Sazonalidade hidrica na concessao de outorga e impacto da irrigacao na bacia do rio dourados, MS, Brasil
Instead, they think the answer is the Central Andean Pluvial Events, the theory that at one point, there was more rain in the Andes Mountains, and that water trickled into the Atacama Desert.
Atacama, Once A Paradise!
NAXA was founded in 2014 and is built around the promotion, protection, education and regulatory status of natural astaxanthin derived from Haematococcus pluvial for use in food and dietary supplements.
UNPA & NAXA sign partnership
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