"Extreme precipitation" refers to heavy rainfall, snowfall, or any form of intense and significant precipitation that occurs in a short period of time.
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Other forms of severe weather are also closely linked to climate change, including a rise in
extreme precipitation events in some regions and increasingly severe droughts in others.
«This increase in water vapor has contributed to increasing total precipitation in the fall season, but does not necessarily mean an increase
in extreme precipitation events,» she added.
The projections also indicate an increase in the basin - averaged precipitation and an increase in the frequency
of extreme precipitation events over the region as a whole.
Currently, I am studying the impacts of climate change
on extreme precipitation and dry spell events in the Nordic countries.
As the number of days
with extreme precipitation increases, the risk for intense and damaging floods is also expected to increase throughout much of the country.
In general, the majority of all precipitation occurs as isolated 1 - day events, while
most extreme precipitation occurs over a period of several hours embedded within 2 - 5 day events.
No changes in
extreme precipitation attributable to climate change were found for the observational period, in large part because of significant year - to - year variability.
Recently developed convection - permitting models better
simulate extreme precipitation, but simulations are not yet widely available due to their computational cost, and they have their own uncertainties.
No single weather event can be attributed to climate change, but a warming climate does load the dice in favor of
heavier extreme precipitation events.
More water vapor in the atmosphere caused by higher global and sea temperatures means the intensity
of extreme precipitation events is on the rise.
They were in less agreement about how intense rain or snow will be when it does fall, although there is general consensus among models that the
most extreme precipitation will become more frequent.
In addition to the immediate health hazards associated with
extreme precipitation events when flooding occurs, other hazards can often appear once a storm has passed.
For example, the two models with the highest resolution (FLOR and HiFLOR) show increased
extreme precipitation during the Atlantic hurricane season in the U.S. southeast.
Staying on the Southern Hemisphere, a research team led by Sue Rosier, looked
at extreme precipitation over the North Island of New Zealand that led to severe flooding in July 2014.
The 2014 National Climate Assessment predicted that many U.S. communities will
see extreme precipitation events more often as global temperatures rise.
«It is not news that climate change
affects extreme precipitation, but our results indicate that the amount is larger than expected,» said researcher Michael Wehner of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Berkeley, California, a co-author of the new GRL study, who will also be presenting the new research at a press conference at the AGU Fall Meeting today.
The Democrats on the committee are staying true to form, as well, overstating the findings in a recent Nature paper to try — in a way that will surely backfire — to build urgency based on
extreme precipitation patterns.
They find that in some locations short - duration
extreme precipitation does not simply scale with the ability of the atmosphere to hold moisture as given by the Clausius - Clapeyron relation, but instead increases more strongly with warming between 12 and 24 °C, in part due to an increase in convective rainfall.
We will introduce and familiarize users with the development of a repository for station - based climate data in the province, the production of high resolution maps of temperature and precipitation climatology, and additional projects
describing extreme precipitation and regional climate anomalies.
It gives a big uncertainty in projections going further forward in time because we don't understand the way they work, and it also gives big uncertainty to things
like extreme precipitation — so that we don't understand rainfall extremes that well.
Global urbanization poses new water - related challenges — chief among them supplying clean drinking water, disposing of wastewater, and
managing extreme precipitation.
The coverage of
extreme precipitation totals and warm temperatures contributed to the fourth highest U.S. Climate Extremes Index in the 106 - year record for the CONUS.
Because of the limited availability of daily observations, however, most previous studies have examined only the potential detectability of changes in
extreme precipitation through model — model comparisons (12 — 15).
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