Sentences with phrase «affects rainfall»

Her work focuses on how climate change affects rainfall and water - related weather extremes.

Moreover, computer models are even worse at predicting how CO2 affects rainfall.

Urban Pollution Also Affects Rainfall Patterns Near City But where the research gets really interesting is when it examines the effects of pollution from the city on weather:

It moves the jet streams, changes storm tracks, affects rainfall patterns, and of course increases UV radiation at ground level.

Variation in the location of the intertropical convergence zone drastically affects rainfall in many equatorial nations, resulting in the wet and dry seasons of the tropics rather than the cold and warm seasons of higher latitudes.

The tropical rain band that encircles Earth just north of the equator affects rainfall patterns worldwide.

These could also have affected rainfall and river flow in the Mississippi River basin.

Scicchitano described the warning as a scientific product based on work climate scientists did on the ocean - atmospheric phenomenon known as La Niña, finding that it would affect rainfall most severely in the Horn of Africa.

These changes affected rainfall in southern Africa.

A number of well - known climate cycles can affect rainfall in the Sahara and the Sahel.

Aerosols that high in the sky «can change the amount of solar radiation reaching the Earth's surface and affect rainfall through cloud formation,» she says.

«As agriculture continues to expand, that could affect the rainfall regime that supports both natural vegetation and agricultural production.»

There are too many variables affecting rainfall.

Want to dive deeper into how the climate crisis is affecting rainfall, droughts, and even hurricanes?

In 1996 the PDO was descried but the problem there was how something in the north east Pacific affected rainfall regimes in Australia.

Greenhouse gas emissions affect rainfall and future climate patterns in Africa, according to a new report.

The scientists looked not just at how temperatures would affect rainfall and snowmelt, but also at how California's water system — its rivers and dams and reservoirs and political systems — would handle drought.

Complete loss of forests in Southeast Asia would affect rainfall in China and India.

«We know that the El Nino events have been affecting our rainfall all these years, but climate change could be aggravating the situation even more.»

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.

«Some have suggested cyclic changes in the overturning may be warming and cooling the whole North Atlantic over the course of several decades and affecting rainfall patterns across the US and Africa, and even the number of hurricanes in the Atlantic.»

«How Does Local Tropical Deforestation Affect Rainfall?»

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In June 2013 Germany was among a number of European countries affected by sever flooding, after several days of extreme rainfall in May.

You also need satellite imagery of conditions like rainfall, temperature, slope and elevation, which affect mosquito breeding and parasite development.»

There are many considerations affecting garden design, including site, soil type, rainfall, method of irrigation, mature height of various plants, structural support for plants like pole beans and tomatoes, and access to the garden for weeding and harvesting.

Massachusetts Birds and Our Changing Climate builds on those previous reports and identifies conservation priorities for more than a hundred species that will be affected by changing patterns of temperature and rainfall, both manifestations of a warming planet.

Whereas last year it was principally the farmers that were affected by the dry conditions and the public water supply was not affected, I think it is more likely that the public water supply will be affected unless we have substantial rainfall between now and the summer.»

These models take into account other factors that can affect water quality, such as wind, rainfall and cloudiness of the beach water.

Munkaila Jawad, the Municipal Director of MoFA, said climate change has shortened rainfall patterns, caused bush fires, affected forest reserves and has...

According to him, the rainfall which was accompanied by windstorm blew off the roofs of many houses in the affected villages.

Before I begin, I'd like to send my deepest thoughts and prayers to the people of southeastern Texas and Louisiana who were affected by Hurricane Harvey and its truly biblical rainfall amounts and resulting floods.

Along with Niagara County, Orleans and Monroe counties are also severely affected by the rising water levels along the shoreline, caused by an increased amount of rainfall this season along with the controversial Plan 2014, an international agreement between the United States and Canada to regulate the water levels in Lake Ontario.

With those data, the team created a model of the way rainfall affects the amount of peat that can build up in any particular place, published last June in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

During this time, rainfall was affected by the African monsoon which strengthened and weakened on a 23,000 year cycle driven by the precession of the equinoxes.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

The model also incorporates data on how people typically move between home, work, school, and shopping; on sexual behavior (Zika can be spread through unprotected sex); and on factors that affect mosquito populations, such as seasonal temperature swings, rainfall, and breeding sites such as caches of old tires.

Crops and livestock will be affected by flooding, drought and shifts in the timing of rainfall and temperature, but where and how these impacts will be felt is uncertain.

Scorching temperatures and scarce rainfall has left large swathes of the United States in drought, with the «breadbasket states», such as Iowa and Indiana, among the worst affected.

As a result, clearing forests can affect local temperature, humidity and rainfall, but these effects can be difficult to quantify, said Luis Garcia - Carreras, a research fellow at the University of Leeds Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science and a co-author of the new study.

This significant drop in rainfall could affect ecosystems and wildlife throughout the entire Amazon basin, which covers roughly 40 percent of South America, Spracklen said.

«We were just interested in how rainfall affects this food web,» Lensing says.

Through monitoring and evaluating activities, scientists track algal blooms, rainfall shifts, frog survival, air quality, possible toxins in decomposing trash — anything affecting or resulting from an environmental factor.

The framework would be useful for solving other questions in the sciences and social sciences in which researchers analyze how three or more components might interact — for example, how climate is affected by the interplay among temperature, rainfall, humidity and ocean acidity.

The team grouped rivers by region to help identify the influence of volcanoes, and used computer models linking rainfall with eruptions to predict where rivers were likely to be affected.

«Rainfall often affects food availability, and cooperatively breeding mammals appear better able to cope with the uncertainties of food availability during periods of drought,» said Lukas, from Cambridge's Department of Zoology.

The scientists warn that climate change threatens these habitats, not only from rising temperatures increasing peat decomposition, but also via altered rainfall patterns — with summer droughts drastically affecting the blanket bog hydrology.

In the southern parts of the country, decreasing rainfall and more heat waves and droughts are already affecting farmers.

Using high - resolution cloud models, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology in Hamburg, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute in Norrköping and the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen analysed how heavy rainfall is affected by rising temperatures.

It is already known to exert a strong influence on temperatures and rainfall in the United States, and affect the position of the jet stream.

In particular, I predict an abrupt shift in pattern formation as rainfall is decreased, which dramatically affects ecosystems,» says Sherratt.