Sentences with phrase «affected hydrological systems»

But as Media Matters for America noted when Stossel previously downplayed the threat posed by global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) concluded in 2001 that» [r] ecent regional changes in climate, particularly increases in temperature, have already affected hydrological systems and terrestrial and marine ecosystems in many parts of the world.»

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In many regions, changing precipitation or melting snow and ice are altering hydrological systems, affecting water resources in terms of quantity and quality (medium confidence).

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.

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.