Sentences with phrase «by moisture change»

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Understand the changing seasons by keeping a graph of temperature and moisture changes and charting the differences of each season.

Bagging an item before placing it in a freezer will also protect it against changes in condensation or damage caused by moisture.

The Warming Meadow's radiators raise average soil temperatures by about three degrees Fahrenheit, decrease growing season soil moisture by up to twenty percent and advance the spring snowmelt date by up to a month in order to simulate predicted effects of climate change.

«Our study demonstrates how moisture may change the incubation conditions inside nests by changing the temperature experienced by eggs, which affects development, growth and sex ratios,» said Wyneken.

Moisture changes the microclimate experienced by the eggs inside the nest and can significantly affect their development.

«As powerful as the cycle is, it is also surprisingly susceptible to environmental changes — and humankind is imposing massive perturbations on Amazonia by both cutting down the trees and heating up the air with greenhouse gases, which reduces large - scale moisture transport and precipitation, and end up affecting even the untouched patches of the forests.»

The value of this information is illustrated by the results of a study published May 19 in the journal Geophysical Research Letters by Oster's group, working with colleagues from the Berkeley Geochronology Center, the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History and the University of Cambridge titled «Northeast Indian stalagmite records Pacific decadal climate change: Implications for moisture transport and drought in India.»

For more than a third of the country, out - of - the - ordinary soil moisture can change the likelihood of next - day rain by a median factor of 13 %.

«If this rainfall change was caused simply by a warmer atmosphere holding more moisture, we would have expected an increase in the average rainfall when each system, organised or disorganised, occurs,» said Dr Tan

For instance, the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture could be counterbalanced by the indirect effects on fuel structure.

A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.

Nor do they know what such changes mean for the food web; for life - cycle events like migration, breeding and nesting; for the amount of moisture that trees will suck from the soil; or for the amount of carbon dioxide stored by plants.

«By understanding the patterns of the vegetation and termite mounds over different moisture zones, we can project how the landscape might change with climate change,» said Greg Asner, a scientist at Carnegie.

Every layer suggested a change in vegetation as well as moisture, the kinds of other animals that were around, and the survival challenges faced by our ancient predecessors.

The air changed as we entered the forest, becoming suddenly rich and earthy, the heat of the day eased by moisture and shade.

Collectively, these data show general increasing trends in both plant growth and evaporation with recent climate change mainly driven by vegetation greening and rising atmosphere moisture deficits.

It could allow farmers to mitigate the negative effects of climate change early by adding fertilisers or tweaking moisture levels as crops grow.

[Response: Well, something like a circulation changed forced by the NAO pattern (which may in turn be affected by greenhouse gases) might cause an increase in European air temperatures, which in turn would allow low level moisture to increase if there is enough moisture supply, which would then constitute an amplification of a signal driven remotely.

Direct effects of climate change on individual trees will be driven by temperature in energy - limited forests and moisture in water - limited forests.

Changes in the frequency and magnitude of climate extremes, of both moisture and temperature, are affected by climate trends as well as changing variability.

However, around the beginning of 2012, that brand that I had loved so much since 1995, the one that had given my skin just the perfect moisture and made it look flawless all of a sudden got the brilliant idea to change their ingredients and started using junk ingredients like hydrogenated oils instead of all natural oils which they had been using ever since I was a customer (this company it seems was bought out by another company who also bought a few other «all natural» skin lines and ruined those as well).

In this recipe, however, it won't be a problem because chicken meal has already been cooked down to a moisture level around 10 % (as indicated by the guaranteed analysis) which makes it a highly concentrated source of protein that won't change significantly in volume with cooking.

Whereas fresh meats contain up to 80 % moisture by volume, meat meals have already been cooked to remove moisture — this means that their volume won't change significantly when the product is cooked.

Opportunistic bacteria and yeast can quickly invade an ear canal that becomes inflamed by allergies, excess moisture, and changes in pH. Swimming and bathing are often triggers that encourage growth of microorganisms in the ear canal.

Much of this unique environment is washed each day by the tides, so organisms that live here are adapted to significant daily changes in moisture, temperature, turbulence, and salinity.

Held and Soden's paper (linked in the article) do document some changes in the moisture transport that differ between equilibrium and transient runs, but these are affected by circulation changes and it's not clear that one can get at them through simple thermodynamic arguments.

The argument is then that the reason trends outside the Atlantic are weak is that they aren't being influenced by the AMO; the other explanation is that the other regions are already over the threshold, so that the Atlantic basin is more sensitive to changes in SSTs and atmospheric moisture than the other regions... or the data may be poor.

The study said the changes in extreme wet and dry spell characteristics are supported by increases in convective available potential energy and low - level moisture convergence.

When you do it by making the walls thicker, you also change the ability of an assembly to deal with moisture because the sheathing stays colder in winter, an issue that painters discovered back in the early days of insulating homes when walls stayed wet and paint peeled off.

The implication is that if climate change, driven by increasing greenhouse gases from human activity, increases the heat content of the ocean, storms passing over it will be able to draw ever more moisture that they can unload as rain.

The deuterium excess, a proxy of Greenland precipitation moisture source, switches mode within 1 - 3 years over these transitions and initiates a more gradual change (50 years) of the Greenland air temperature as recorded by water stable isotopes.

The shift can be explained by changing precipitation patterns and higher average temperatures that make moisture evaporate from the soil more rapidly than in the past, the study said.

These tools provide the means to sharpen assessment and management capacities required to: compare the result of several water allocations plans; improve soil - moisture control - practices under rainfed conditions; optimize irrigation scheduling; sustainably intensify crop production; close the yield and water - productivity gaps; quantify the impact of climate variability and change on cropping systems; enhance strategies for increased water productivity and water savings; minimize the negative impact on the environment caused by agriculture.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

Aren't atmospheric feedbacks — moisture, clouds — only activated (and neccesarily quickly) by changes to GMT?

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

Natural processes changed the timing and magnitude of soil moisture, streamflow, and groundwater deficits by up to several years, and caused the amplification of rainfall declines in streamflow to be greater than in normal dry years.

-- «The 2012 report on extreme events by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change examined the evidence for regional changes in soil moisture since 1950, and made the following assessment for western North America: «No overall or slight decrease in dryness since 1950; large variability; large drought of the 1930s dominates.»

Anthropogenic climate change contributes to fanning of the West African monsoon by moisture from the Mediterranean July 13, 2016 Climate change can have mixed consequences: It would appear that the warming of the Mediterranean region, which has brought greater heat and drought to the countries there for around 20 years, is behind an increase in rainfall in the Sahel region.

changes in plant canopy caused by shifts in plant biomass production associated with moisture regime;

Low clouds are normally closely coupled to the surface and over land can be significantly changed by modifications of surface temperature or moisture resulting from changes in land properties.

Most occurrences of Lyme disease in United States are in the Northeast, especially Connecticut.44 While it is unclear how climate change will impact Lyme disease, 45 several studies in the Northeast have linked tick activity and Lyme disease incidence to climate, specifically abundant late spring and early summer moisture.46, 47 West Nile Virus (WNV) is another vector - borne disease that may be influenced by changes in climate.

Changes in the frequency and magnitude of climate extremes, of both moisture and temperature, are affected by climate trends as well as changing variability.

Their work involved using a hydrologic model that included a simple representation of glaciers, run by statistically - downscaled output from global climate models, in order to come up with projected changes to evaporation, precipitation, runoff, snow, soil moisture and temperature in the Canadian portion of the Columbia River Basin.

A July 2015 study finds that climate change may increase horizontal water vapor transport by up to 40 percent in the North Pacific, due mainly to increases in air moisture.

By looking at atmospheric profiles above Gan Island, they could see how clouds and moisture changed which altitudes were heated over the course of each cycle of the MJO.

A combination of changes in El Niño and the Arctic Oscillation (which is closely related to the North Atlantic Oscillation) has been identified as the immediate driver of the heavy snowfall experienced by the mid-Atlantic states in the United States during the winter of 2010.8 The warm tropical Atlantic contributed extra moisture to the record snows.

One model scenario shows an increase of about 5 °C in July mean heat index (a measure which includes both the effects of temperature and moisture, leading to changes in the heat index which are larger than changes in temperature alone; it measures effects on human comfort; see further discussion in Chapter 10) over the southeastern USA by the year 2050 (Delworth et al., 2000).

The gain or loss is determined by changes in sources and sinks which are controlled by other climatic factors, in particular, temperature and soil moisture, and that these changes are sufficient to reduce the anthropogenic contribution to the level of noise.

As noted in the TAR (McAvaney et al., 2001), vegetation change during the mid-Holocene likely triggered changes in the hydrological cycle, explaining the wet conditions that prevailed in the Sahel region that were further enhanced by ocean feedbacks (Ganopolski et al., 1998; Braconnot et al., 1999), although soil moisture may have counteracted some of these feedbacks (Levis et al., 2004).