Sentences with phrase «although rainfall increases»

German summers tend to be warm and sunny with temperatures falling between 20 °C and 30 °C although rainfall increases slightly during June, July and August.

Not exact matches

In fact, increasing levels of CO2 in the atmosphere — now roughly 392 parts per million and rising — may be fertilizing the rainforest and preventing even greater impacts from reduced rainfall, although this question, Davidson and his colleagues wrote in the review, «may be one of the largest unknowns for the future of the Amazon forests.»

Although many parts of west Africa are experiencing increased rainfall as a result of global warming, in northern Ghana, which is mostly arid savanna, it's diminishing or becoming unpredictable.

QUOTE 3 (in that same page range): «The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses» is followed by the conveniently omitted phrase «although some studies did find recent increases in flood losses related in part to changes in intense rainfall events (Fengqing et al., 2005; Chang et al., 2009).»

In Relationships between Water Vapor Path and Precipitation over the Tropical Oceans, Bretherton et al showed that although the Western Pacific warmer surface waters increased the water in the atmosphere compared to the Eastern Pacific, rainfall was lower in the Western Pacific compared to the Eastern Pacific for equal amounts of water vapor in the atmospheric column — e.g., about 10mm / day in the Western Pacific, versus ~ 20mm / day in the Eastern Pacific at 55 mm water vapor, the peak of the distribution of water vapor amounts.

What they found is that although about half of the island groups are projected to experience increased rainfall — predominantly in the deep tropics — overall changes to island freshwater balance will shift towards greater aridity for over 73 % of the island groups (16 million people) by mid-century.

Floods are the second deadliest of all weather - related hazards in the United States.57, 58 Elevated waterborne disease outbreaks have been reported in the weeks following heavy rainfall, 59 although other variables may affect these associations.60 Populations living in damp indoor environments experience increased prevalence of asthma and other upper respiratory tract symptoms.61

Although greenhouse gas abundance tends to increase monsoon rainfall strength (4 6), the situation is more complex with changing aerosol distribution (7, 8).

Typically increases in total rainfall over India may be in the region of 5 - 10 %, although some climate models suggest more and some less.

Moderate climate change in the coming decades is projected to increase overall yields by 5 - 20 % on agricultural lands that rely of rainfall, although major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range.

Although water scarcity will increase, the Southwest will also see increased frequency and altered timing of flooding because of increased intensity of rainfalls when they do occur, leading to increased risks to people, natural resources, and infrastructure.

The two interior sites are projected to retain the characteristics of a nival regime by mid-century, although streamflow - timing shifts result from increased mid-winter rainfall and snowmelt, and earlier freshet onset.

Increased mean upstream rainfall partly compensates for upstream water losses, although net irrigation demand may put more stress on the region's food security.