Sentences with phrase «as rainfall patterns»

Once this La Nina faded, sea levels rebounded sharply, and that rise might have been incorrectly interpreted as some rapid acceleration in the long - term sea level rise, when in fact, mass was shifting back from land to ocean as rainfall patterns changed once more, but also much of the excess water on the land was draining back to the oceans.

El Niño — a warming of tropical Pacific Ocean waters that changes weather patterns across the globe — causes forests to dry out as rainfall patterns shift, and the occasional unusually strong «super» El Niños, like the current one, have a bigger effect on CO2 levels in the atmosphere.

«As rainfall patterns change with climate change, it's predicted there will be more times of drought, and more times of excessive rainfall — really big storms,» said Terry Loecke, assistant professor of environmental studies at the University of Kansas and lead author of the new investigation.

Not exact matches

This advice comes at a time when farmers across the country are complaining of huge yield losses as a result of poor rainfall patterns this year.

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.

Other bodies, such as the European Environment Agency, have said it is likely that rising temperatures in Europe will change rainfall patterns, leading to more frequent and heavy floods in many regions.

As the planet continues to warm, rainfall patterns around the globe will shift — and some parts of the United States will see their flood risks rise.

«My research focuses on the way in which patterns change as annual rainfall varies.

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

So, a thirsty tree growing in a tropical forest and one in a temperate forest, such as those we find throughout Europe, will have largely the same response to drought and will inevitably suffer as a result of rising temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns on Earth.»

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.

Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the study includes maps showing where lemurs are likely to seek refuge as temperatures rise and rainfall patterns change across the 225,000 - square - mile island over the next 65 years.

Currently, Pacific sea surface temperatures have risen as an El Niño event develops, a climate phenomenon that alters rainfall patterns around the globe.

A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

However, the effects of introducing these particles are not expected to be the same across the globe, and the offsetting of human - induced changes in other quantities such as rainfall and weather patterns may not work as well as for temperature.

If these rainfall patterns persist long enough for people on the ground to take advantage, it could well direct human activity toward those areas and accelerate their demise via exploitation, just as if the rainfall had actually stopped and the trees had died in place for that reason.

Although there is still some disagreement in the preliminary results (eg the description of polar ice caps), a lot of things appear to be quite robust as the climate models for instance indicate consistent patterns of surface warming and rainfall trends: the models tend to agree on a stronger warming in the Arctic and stronger precipitation changes in the Topics (see crude examples for the SRES A1b scenarios given in Figures 1 & 2; Note, the degrees of freedom varies with latitude, so that the uncertainty of these estimates are greater near the poles).

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.

One shouldn't take this picture too literally as a prediction for any particular region, but it help one understand why the signal in rainfall will be positive in some region and negative in others, with the pattern tending to increase gradients.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

So, a thirsty tree growing in a tropical forest and one in a temperate forest, such as those we find throughout Europe, will have largely the same response to drought and will inevitably suffer as a result of rising temperatures and changes in rainfall patterns on Earth.

«Uncertainty about feedback mechanisms is one reason why the ultimate goal of climate modeling — forecasting reliably the future of key variables such as temperature and rainfall patterns — is not realizable.»

Farmers are particularly vulnerable to climate change impacts such as prolonged droughts and shifting rainfall patterns, and agriculture is an important source of emissions.

Climate models generally suggest that the tropics as a whole will get wetter, but the models don't always agree on where rainfall patterns will shift in particular regions within the tropics.

«But it turns out that removing forests alters moisture and air flow, leading to changes — from fluctuating rainfall patterns to rises in temperatures — that are just as hazardous, and happen right away.»

I've never been to a COP before, but I certainly have felt and experienced the effects of climate change: in the drought that people face in my home country Kenya as a result of the disruption in rainfall patterns, and in the flooding that has seen lives lost, crops destroyed and cattle dying.

And forests provide development benefits beyond their role in climate mitigation such as livelihoods for indigenous and local communities and maintaining hydrological systems and rainfall patterns.

NOBODY can accurately predict changes in rainfall patterns as a function of CO2 and that is FAR more important that potential changes in temperature.

This approach has already been comprehensively dismissed by other studies, which have demonstrated that such an approach could change rainfall patterns or make conditions worse in arid zones such as the Sahel or just make things worse once the technology ceased.

Uncertainty about important feedback mechanisms is one reason why the ultimate goal of climate modeling — the forecasting reliably the futures key variables such as temperature and rainfall patterns — is not realizable.

As a hydrologist — I would happily predict much more summer rainfall in Australia, India, China, Indonesia and Africa for a decade or three more — based on patterns of sea surface temperature in the Pacific.

It shows ENSO periodicity — and an intriguing change in tempo at the turn of the 20th century — as well as the familiar 20 to 30 year patterns of rainfall.

Even while identifying some of the observed change in climatic behaviour, such as a 0.4 C increase in surface temperature over the past century, or about 1 mm per year sea level rise in Northern Indian Ocean, or wider variation in rainfall patterns, the document notes that no firm link between the do...

According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Sahel will experience increasingly higher average temperatures as well as changes in rainfall patterns over the course of the 21st century.

Are we now going back to a drier period as experienced from 1896 — 1950 as we are starting to see signs of in SW Aust rainfall patterns?

Even modest changes in seasonality of rainfall, temperature, and wind patterns can push transient poor and marginalized people into chronic poverty as they lack access to credit, climate forecasts, insurance, government support, and effective response options, such as diversifying their assets.

But as climate change brings more frequent and severe weather shocks such as droughts and floods, and makes rainfall patterns less predictable, these gains are under threat.

Cultivation of the arabica coffee plant, staple of daily caffeine fixes and economic lifeline for millions of small farmers, is under threat from climate change as rising temperatures and new rainfall patterns limit the areas where it can be grown, researchers have warned.

The Philippines, a low - lying country of over 100 million people, faces threats from more intense typhoons, dramatic changes in rainfall patterns, sea level rise, and increasing temperatures as a result of man - made climate change, experts said.

The Agriculture Department will have to deal with droughts and changing rainfall patterns, but its employees have been barred from even discussing the problem openly, as leadership has instructed them to use «weather extremes» instead of «climate change» in reports.

As an Australian, I could raise some points about Alice Springs (for example, in the dry centre of one of the driest continents, rainfall influenced by several possible passing weather systems more than an identifiable annual pattern, etc).

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

It is manifested as strong anomalous easterly trade winds, distinctive sea - level pressure patterns, and large rainfall anomalies in the Pacific, which resemble the Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO).

On undesirability, Hulme explains that although the approach would reduce global temperatures, it would also have significant side - effects, such as changing local rainfall patterns.

7 May, 2017 — The warming climate is upsetting rainfall patterns and the frequency of flooding in West Africa as it makes the region's Sahel storms three times likelier.

Researchers have been doing detection - and - attribution studies on well - understood, well - documented phenomena such as temperature changes and rainfall patterns for more than a decade.

In fragile contexts more than anywhere else, it is essential to realise how climate impacts — such as changing rainfall patterns, increased natural disasters and constraints to carbon - based economic growth — will have knock - on consequences on the national economy, trade, development, equity, governance and political stability.

We can't measure the evaporation rate or rainfall pattern, but we are allowed to look at the number of tourists who stay in nearby hotels, some of whom state if they have fishermen or windsurfers staying, and so one can use these as proxies for sunlight / rainfall patterns (CO2 partitioning into temperature dependent aquatic bodies).

Keep in mind that as carbon dioxide increases, temperatures also increase, rainfall patterns change, and some kinds of extreme weather events become more common and severe.