Sentences with phrase «breaking rainfall events»
Over the last three decades, the number of record - breaking rainfall events globally has significantly increased, and the fingerprint of global warming has been documented in this pattern.
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«One out of 10 record - breaking rainfall events observed globally in the past 30 years can only be explained if the long - term warming is taken into account,» says co-author Dim Coumou, a PIK researcher into the links between atmospheric circulation and extreme weather events.
«Lehmann et al. (2015) also found large — scale increasing patterns in extreme precipitation, with 12 % more record - breaking rainfall events over 1981 — 2010.
Not exact matches
Because droughts progress over years, it takes a prolonged period of rainfall or a massive rainfall event to break them.
In marked contrast, some regions have experienced significantly fewer record - breaking daily rainfall events.