Sentences with phrase «affect hydrological cycles»

Charred landscapes affect hydrological cycles and biodiversity and are more susceptible to things like mudslides.

In recent decades, new factors in addition to deforestation have affected the hydrological cycle.

Not exact matches

Dams may also change the hydrological cycle in Amazonia, which affects precipitation in the Andes.

He predicts an acceleration of warming trends to take place in coming decades but what that means for cloud formation, hydrological cycles and other events that affect albedo is unknown.

Humans alter that hydrological cycle through water use demand - irrigation being a large use - and cause changes in water supply by affecting evaporation and runoff.

He predicts an acceleration of warming trends to take place in coming decades but what that means for cloud formation, hydrological cycles and other events that affect albedo is unknown.

However, despite all that, the weather systems combined with the hydrological cycle and the global air circulation guided by the sea surface temperatures do provide reasonable overall stability for eons at a time by neutralising many potentially disruptive natural and biologically induced variables affecting air temperature.

You must calculate the greenhouse affect on the warming / lack of warming in the oceanic hydrological cycle.

We have ongoing work examining hydrological cycle feedbacks to changing climate forcings in simple climate system models, examing how solar variability affects climate variability and in applying the idea of maximum entropy production to model parameterization.

Some forcings affect the climate system in nonradiative ways, in particular by modifying the hydrological cycle or vegetation dynamics.

Aerosols not only affect the radiative balance at the top of the atmosphere but also exert a forcing on the hydrological cycle (e.g., Ramanathan et al., 2001a).

Drier conditions resulting from suppressed rainfall can induce more dust and smoke due to the burning of drier vegetation (Ramanathan et al., 2001), thus affecting both regional and global hydrological cycles (Wang, 2004).

Definitely yes, at some point in the future (billions of years), something not experienced on Earth will be affecting the climate, but over the relatively shorter - term, the same physical mechanisms control the climate, just playing on variations on the combinations, timing, and intensity of those mechanisms: namely: Milankovitch cycles, GHG concentrations, ocean cycles, hydrological cycle, volcanic activity, solar cycles, biosphere interactions, location of continents, etc..

The findings jibe well with current thinking among climate scientists about how the hydrological cycle is being affected by global warming.

As regards the second point you have to remember that the return of energy reaching the surface is primarily affected by the speed of the hydrological cycle and by the extent of water penetration and some of the water penetration takes the period of the thermohaline circulation to resurface.

The reason why Figure 9.1 in IPCC AR4 is disconcerting is that the temperature anomaly in the upper tropical atmosphere bears the signature of increased moist convective activity, which means that the hydrological cycle probably gets perturbed by increased GHG forcings, hence affecting rainfall patterns.