Sentences with phrase «california rainfall events»

This mode of intra-annual tropical atmospheric variability is strongly associated with California rainfall events when its active phase shifts eastward, as is currently being suggested by dynamical model forecasts.

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It gives examples of California's Global Warming Solutions Act, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative and city actions to adapt to heavy rainfall events.

Last week, a torrential rainstorm the National Weather Service described as a thousand - year rainfall event created a horrific mudslide that buried California highways, trapping hundreds of cars.

Dam engineers in California stated they had never experienced the confluence of such events (record rainfall, busted main spillway, blocked penstock through power station and threat of emergency spillway collapse).

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

During an atmospheric river event in southern California on February 17 — 18, new rainfall records were set in Death Valley (0.65 inches) and Santa Barbara (4.16 inches).

In addition, the pattern of sea surface temperatures at low latitudes is extremely important for regional climate variations (shown, for example, by the increased likelihood of heavy winter rainfall in California when the eastern tropical Pacific warms in El Niño events).