They were unable to find a complete and reliable published rainfall record for the entire watershed using ground - based measurements, so
they analyzed rainfall data from NASA's Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission satellite.
The researchers
analyzed rainfall data recorded throughout Africa from 1920 to 2013 and found that the Sahara, which occupies much of the northern part of the continent, expanded by 10 percent during this period when looking at annual trends.
In 70s & 80s, before encroachment of global warming in to climate studies, before starting
analyzing rainfall data by clubbing the rainfall of different rain gauge stations, we used to homogenize the rain gauge stations in terms of rainfall patterns.
Not exact matches
They also
analyzed data from a climate model developed by the Max - Planck Institute for Meteorology in Germany to predict what the correlation between the current and
rainfall would be expected to be during the Little Ice Age.
To do so, Ichoku and his colleagues used satellite records from 2001 to 2014 — including
data from NASA's Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer and the Tropical
Rainfall Measurement Mission — to
analyze the impact of fires on various water cycle indicators, namely soil moisture, precipitation, evapotranspiration and vegetation greenness.
Here we
analyze a series of climate model experiments along with observational
data to show that the recent warming trend in Atlantic sea surface temperature and the corresponding trans - basin displacements of the main atmospheric pressure centers were key drivers of the observed Walker circulation intensification, eastern Pacific cooling, North American
rainfall trends and western Pacific sea - level rise.
Hydroclimatologist Bruce Daniels has
analyzed 85 years of
rainfall data collected all over California.
This view is unsupported, he says, by
data for the past hundred years analyzed by the US National Climate Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term tr
data for the past hundred years
analyzed by the US National Climate
Data Center that captures information on rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term tr
Data Center that captures information on
rainfall, drought and other indicators and found that only the last few decades showed signs of more extreme climate, not a long - term trend.
This finding implies that, even if climatic trends are absent or negligible,
rainfall and its extremes exhibit an apparent non-stationarity if
analyzed over time intervals shorter than the longest periodicity in the
data (about 170 years for the case
analyzed here).