Sentences with phrase «as precipitation»

They considered variables such as precipitation, evaporation, ocean surface temperature and the chemistry (the pH) of the seas.

Specifically, this analysis is of the average of minimum and maximum daily temperature as well as precipitation totals.

This land ice therefore is actually stored ocean water that once fell as precipitation.

You also seem to forget that when water vapor forms in the sky as clouds, it comes back down as precipitation.

Because they are larger to begin with, the salty drops soon grow so heavy that they fall out of the atmosphere as precipitation, taking much of the dirt down with them.

The standard deviations vary geographically in much the same way as precipitation itself, although local differences can be seen.

As illustrated below, values are least reliable where surface observations are sparse and the background model forecasts of related variables such as precipitation are biased.

And don't forget, there are river run offs, glacier melting effects as well as precipitation.

The warm ocean water evaporates, adds moisture to the air and falls as precipitation over nearby regions.

About 85 percent of the river's flow originates as precipitation in the Upper Basin — the part of the river that drains portions of Wyoming, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.

These icy jets spew water and ice, which are either drawn into Saturn's rings or fall back as precipitation on the moon, Saturn's sixth - largest.

«In terms of the water they dump as precipitation, atmospheric rivers are every bit as big and bad as hurricanes,»...

It also will expand impervious surfaces as precipitation is expected to increase in some areas.

Cities are asked to list average high and low temperatures as well as precipitation for the month of February at each venue.

A team led by Jean Jouzel of the Centre Nationale des Recherches Scientifiques in Gif - sur - Yvette, France, reports in tomorrow's issue of Science that the end of the core is frozen lake water, not water that arrived in Antarctica as precipitation.

In the case of a mountain stream, water enters as precipitation but only a portion of this water leaves as streamflow.

Convergence, or how the moisture is wrung out of clouds as precipitation, causes the air to cool, dry, and move back to the surface.

Observations of precipitation by a large group of volunteers are critical to understanding storms as precipitation varies widely from place to place even in a single storm.

The researchers produced their index from satellite measurements of land surface temperature and the multi-year water balance defined as precipitation minus evapotranspiration.

It flows along the line of least resistance to find its way to the ocean, where it comes and goes in tides and waves, evaporates to the sky, and reappears as precipitation.

Tropospheric quantities such as temperature or geopotential height are more skilfully represented than derived variables such as precipitation at the regional or grid scale (e.g., Osborn and Hulme, 1997; Trigo and Palutikof, 1999).

If it is correct, as I have read, that water vapour taken into the atmosphere takes about a week to return as precipitation then that implies that on average the entire atmosphere turns over 52 times in every year.

And ski resorts from the Poconos to the Adirondacks could be looking at winters with a lot less white as precipitation falls more as rain than snow.

In order to «squeeze out» all of that water vapor as precipitation, there has to be some atmospheric mechanism to cause air to rise, water to condense, and precipitation to subsequently fall.

Storms, floods, and droughts will generally be more severe as precipitation patterns change.

However, its impacts are still being felt in the Northeast and South as precipitation from Thor turned to ice overnight, prompting several school closures and delays.

As precipitation maps tend to be spotty, overall trends in precipitation are indicated by the Palmer Drought Severity Index (see Figure 1), which is a measure of soil moisture using precipitation and crude estimates of changes in evaporation.

Model simulations of the atmosphere also indicate an increase in the poleward transport of latent heat as precipitation, mainly at tropical latitudes (Haywood et al., 2009).

Daily, monthly, seasonal and annual averages are automatically calculated as well as precipitation sums.

(Drought expanded across the Central U.S. last week as precipitation deficits there increased.

There are a ton of ways to quickly get weather info, but if you want one more, you can have the screen on your Ecobee display the current temperature outside, as well as any precipitation conditions.

Starting in the 3rd year of his 5 - year degree at the University of Vigo, Ourense, in Spain, Añel spent 4 hours a week in Luis Gimeno's Group of Atmospheric and Ocean Physics at the university's Department of Applied Physics, computing climate change quantifiers using simple parameters such as precipitation and air temperature.

As precipitation moves inland, water with the heavier form of hydrogen falls out first, which creates predictable patterns of the stable isotopes ratios of precipitation across continents.

These models often miss complex interactions between the land and atmosphere, such as how moisture evaporates from the land, then falls back down as precipitation.

«As far as precipitation and storms, we can't attribute a season or storm to climate change.

There is a kind of a «funnel effect» since the evaporated water over a large area has to come down as precipitation over a significantly smaller area.

In late 2010 and early 2011, the continent Down Under received about twice its normal complement of rain, thanks in large part to unusually warm sea - surface temperatures just north of Australia and a particularly strong La Niña — in essence, combining a source of warm humid air with the weather patterns that steered the moisture over the continent where it condensed and fell as precipitation.

This shift can have important consequences for global weather, and is intimately related to precipitation and snowpack in California during the winter, as well as precipitation patterns in other regions.

The non-protein constituents are removed by physical separation techniques such as precipitation, membrane filtration and / or ion exchange.

Earth's radiation budget, climate as well as precipitation patterns can be influenced in this manner.

They compared fluctuations in reservoir water levels between 2003 and 2016 to a variety of factors, such as precipitation, the severity of the drought, the snowpack levels in the Sierras, and levels of other California reservoirs.

«Furthermore, our work focuses on increases / decreases in temperatures, but similar analyses are needed to estimate consensus changes in other meteorological variables such as precipitation.

The study accounted for evapotranspiration, which is water released into the air through plant transpiration and soil evaporation, as well as precipitation, and surface water flowing into and out of the Central Valley.