Sentences with phrase «affects rainfall patterns»

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.

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

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.»

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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.

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

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

The UM Rosenstiel School researchers used historical observations of cloud cover as a proxy for wind velocity in climate models to analyze the Walker circulation, the atmospheric air flow and heat distribution in the tropic Pacific region that affects patterns of tropical rainfall.

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

Each time a switch occurs, the changes to ocean and atmospheric circulation affect temperature and rainfall patterns across the globe.

Crucially, the project is also tackling the effects of climate change that are already making themselves known — for example exploring solar dryers as an alternative to the traditional coffee drying techniques which have been affected by changing rainfall patterns.

A new study released Friday in the journal Science Advances helps clear up a bit of the mystery, by showing that man - made climate change is responsible for most of the change seen in ocean surface temperatures near the equator across Asia, which in turn affect regional rainfall patterns including the Indian monsoon.

The «plausible» scenario outlined by the report's authors considers a world dramatically affected by climate change, with large changes in average temperatures, rainfall patterns, and the incidence of droughts and storms.

«Changing rainfall patterns affect rainfed agriculture, worsening poverty which can be exploited by others,» he said.

Air and water temperatures, precipitation patterns, extreme rainfall events, and seasonal variations are all known to affect disease transmission.59, 199,86 In the United States, children and the elderly are most vulnerable to serious outcomes, and those exposed to inadequately or untreated groundwater will be among those most affected.

For example, the northern East Asian summer monsoon (NEASM) is, for the years of highest SST anomalies in the tropical eastern Pacific (TEP), affected by the Pacific - East Asian (PEA) teleconnection pattern, which consists of a wave creating an anomalously strong western North Pacific (WNP) anticyclonic circulation and anomalously strong cyclonic circulation in the NEASM region, creating more monsoon rainfall.

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

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

Varying rainfall patterns change soil moisture, which in turn affects yield.

Predictions about climate change are based on computer models that predict how phenomena such as temperature, rainfall patterns, and sea level will be affected.

In summary, in contrast with the simulations of extreme temperature by climate models, extreme precipitation is difficult to reproduce, especially for the intensities and patterns of heavy rainfall which are heavily affected by the local scale (see Chapter 10).

A slowdown in circulation would affect many parts of the world by disrupting global rainfall patterns.

In the Torres Strait, it is predicted that food production will be severely affected because of increased temperatures, changing rainfall patterns, salinity which will turn previously productive land infertile, and erosion.