Sentences with phrase «adding precipitation increases»

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A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3 - foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot — up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

«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.

But beyond the increased amount of precipitation, Wehner adds, «this study more generally increases our understanding of how the various processes in extreme storms can change as the overall climate warms.»

while adding that the water cycle, overall, will intensify and that «precipitation overall will also increase.»

Subtract or add X W / sq - m due to increase in cloud cover and energy spent in precipitation.

But all he has done in moving from old H0 to new H0 is choose a Ho that makes it impossible to add weight to his desired H1: («Precipitation has increased by 5 %»).

The main dynamical driver of the monsoon is therefore the positive moisture - advection feedback (Fig. 1 A): The release of latent heat from precipitation over land adds to the temperature difference between land and ocean, thus driving stronger winds from ocean to land and increasing in this way landward advection of moisture, which leads to enhanced precipitation and associated release of latent heat.

Add in the fact that warmer temperatures meant more moisture in the air, and the result is increased precipitation extremes.

Precipitation: increased freshwater / iceberg flux cools ocean mixed layer, increases sea ice area, causing increase of precipitation that falls before it reaches Antarctica, adding to ocean surface freshening and reducing ice Precipitation: increased freshwater / iceberg flux cools ocean mixed layer, increases sea ice area, causing increase of precipitation that falls before it reaches Antarctica, adding to ocean surface freshening and reducing ice precipitation that falls before it reaches Antarctica, adding to ocean surface freshening and reducing ice sheet growth.

Those who do come to the Northwest will be faced with an unpleasant reality, she adds, reciting a list of problems expected to strike the region before the turn of the century: regional temperature increases between 5.5 and 9.1 degrees Fahrenheit; drier summers making the Northwest's forests more susceptible to fire; declining snowpack, as more precipitation falls as rain instead of snow at higher elevations, straining regional water supplies and increasing the risk of flooding downstream.

This detectable increase in extremely low - precipitation years adds to the effect of rising temperatures and contributes to the increasing occurrence of extremely warm — dry 12 - mo periods during the 21st century.

The warming (WV is a ghg) is welcome (countering the average global cooling which would otherwise be occurring as a result of declining net effect of ocean cycles and a declining proxy which is the time - integral of SSN anomalies) but the added WV increases the risk of precipitation related flooding.

in May, the head of the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) provided details on the new weather modification program, adding that the country would seek to increase precipitation by 3 to 5 percent in the next five years through cloud - seeding.

«The recent increase in atmospheric methane is due to surface warming of Arctic and mid-latitude wetlands and to a lesser extent increased precipitation over parts of Africa,» added Palmer.

It should also be possible to get less snow with the same amount of precipitation if e.g. the day - night variation increases, in that snow melts during the heat of the day and even if the cold of the night averages out the temperature, the added cold can not remake the lost snow.