Sentences with phrase «less precipitation leads»

Less precipitation leads to reduced runoff for communities, industry and agriculture.

Not exact matches

«Understanding which factors lead to more or less [precipitation] and how this happens is critical to developing infrastructure to capture more water, reduce flooding, et cetera,» Kimberly Prather, a study author who holds appointments at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the department of chemistry and biochemistry at UC San Diego, wrote in an email.

The Michigan Tech study reinforces that dirtier clouds - which are brighter clouds that scatter more sunlight, reflecting some of it back to space - will probably last longer because they are less likely to lead to precipitation.

Increasing temperature is likely to lead to increasing precipitation but the effects on storms are less clear.

However, what evidence do we have that the increased precipitation efficiency will lead to less (not more) cloud cover?

The hypothesis has two parts: First, in a warmer climate, enhanced precipitation efficiency will lead to less cloud being detrained into the troposphere from convection.

The stratosphere — which extends up to about 55 km, where the mesosphere begins — is made even less weather - prone by the absence of water vapour, and thus of the clouds and precipitation to which it leads.

Water may become less scarce in regions that get more precipitation, but more precipitation will probably also increase flood risk; it may also raise the groundwater table, which could lead to damage to buildings and other infrastructure or to reduced agricultural productivity due to wet soils or soil salinization.

A radical meteorology theory argues that loss of forest, both in temperate and tropical regions, will lead to less precipitation over...

Higher elevations lead to colder temperatures and less precipitation.

Ice cover loss can influence winds and precipitation on other continents, possibly leading to less rain in the western United States and creating more in Europe.

A radical meteorology theory argues that loss of forest, both in temperate and tropical regions, will lead to less precipitation over land.

Mongabay: Recent evidence has linked the decline and fall of the Maya civilization to deforestation leading to less precipitation.