Sentences with phrase «by precipitation from»

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If the casein is removed from skim milk by a precipitation method, such as the addition of mineral acid, a group of proteins remains in solution that are called milk serum proteins.

Nelson and his colleagues, working with funding from the World Bank and Asian Development Bank, estimated global agricultural impacts by pairing IFPRI's own economic models for crop yields with climate models for precipitation and temperature from the U.S. National Center for Atmospheric Research and Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization.

«The complementary meteorological and satellite data and interpretation provided by the authors strengthen the case that dust from disparate global sources can enhance precipitation in certain meteorological environments,» Spackman wrote in an email.

-- John Eckerle, Jupiter, FL Motor oil leaked from individual vehicles — or outright dumped by homeowners and commercial garages — constitutes a significant chunk of storm water runoff, the fallen precipitation that runs off of roads and parking lots and inevitably finds its way into local water bodies.

The excessive heat increased the rate of water loss by evaporation and caused precipitation to shift from snow to rain, leaving a meager snowpack and parched reservoirs.

The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.

A 12 percent increase in the rate of aquifer recharge from added precipitation, combined with a projected 3 - foot rise in sea level by the end of the century, would raise groundwater levels in some parts of the city by an additional foot — up to 4 feet higher than current levels.

Acid rain is now caused by nitric rather than sulfuric acid — and it comes from more sources than the earlier acidic precipitation did

The environmental data sets from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission and the MODIS sensors will continue into the next decade with data provided by their follow - on missions: the Global Precipitation Measurement mission to launch in early 2014, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite on the Suomi National Polar - orbiting Partnership satellite currently in orbit.

Researchers have created glass that tints by harvesting energy from wind and precipitation.

The researchers developed a novel approach to the issue by using climate data from the IPCC and directly modeling all of the components that cause flooding at the coast including, waves, tides, winds blowing over the surface of the ocean and estuaries, precipitation, and stream flow.

By analyzing data from 270 monitoring sites around the country, Zhang and his colleagues found that the amount of nitrogen deposition, as measured in precipitation, had increased by 60 % — or 8 kilograms per hectare per year — between 1980 and 201By analyzing data from 270 monitoring sites around the country, Zhang and his colleagues found that the amount of nitrogen deposition, as measured in precipitation, had increased by 60 % — or 8 kilograms per hectare per year — between 1980 and 201by 60 % — or 8 kilograms per hectare per year — between 1980 and 2010.

In some areas, particularly in Eurasia, climate change — as measured by changes in temperature and precipitation from 21,000 years ago until now — also seems to have influenced extinction rates.

Precipitation hitting the US from hurricanes increased by 7 % over the twentieth century.

Leveraged private - sector capital might flow to renewable energy, for example, but not toward preventing water infrastructure from being compromised by flooding or helping farmers predict changes in precipitation.

The ice was formed by the precipitation that fell as snow from the clouds and remained year after year, gradually being compressed into ice.

Convective precipitation, which can lead to huge floods and subsequent disasters, is generated by heat from the Earth's surface.

Climate change can affect mountain streams in two major ways: By raising the overall temperature, increasing evapotranspiration, and by shifting the precipitation from snow to raiBy raising the overall temperature, increasing evapotranspiration, and by shifting the precipitation from snow to raiby shifting the precipitation from snow to rain.

Future modeling may explain some of the study's seemingly paradoxical findings, including the fact that, even as fires decreased by 2 to 7 percent each year from 2006 to 2013, precipitation during those years did not increase proportionately.

Studies by Climate Central and other groups have shown an increase in the odds of some precipitation events from warming.

However, in many of the same places, actual evapotranspiration inferred from surface water balance exhibits an increase in association with enhanced soil wetness from increased precipitation, as the actual evapotranspiration becomes closer to the potential evaporation measured by the pans.

Evidence from glacial advance / retreat (e.g. the evidence from tropical Andean glaciers you cite above) is often difficult to interpret, because glacial mass balance represents in general a subtle competition between the influences of ablation (determined by changes in temperature thresholds reached) and accumulation (determined by changes in humidity and precipitation).

The study concludes that the growth of the Mauna Kea glacier caused by the AMOC current changes was a result of both colder conditions and a huge increase of precipitation on Mauna Kea — triple that of the present — that scientists believe may have been caused by more frequent cyclonic storm events hitting the Hawaiian Islands from the north.

These anvil cloud tops, which form from moisture not harvested by precipitation in tall, convective tower clouds, operate as Earth's thermal blanket and therefore are an important component of the climate system.

Significant input sources are: precipitation onto the lake, runoff carried by streams and channels from the lake's catchment area, groundwater channels and aquifers, and artificial sources from outside the catchment area.

A large portion of secondary organic aerosols - tiny particles in the air we breathe that contribute to cloud formation and precipitation - arise from a combination of man - made pollution and molecules given off by plant matter.

The review by O'Gorman et al (3) reports that a 1C increase in global mean temperature will result in a 2 % — 7 % increase in the precipitation rate; the lower values are results of GCM output, and the upper values are results from regressing estimated annual rainfalls on annual mean temperatures.

A joint session dedicated to DOE ARM measurements: Observations of Aerosol / Trace Gases, Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation from DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility Part 1, Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 — 10:00 am, 4C - 4, led by Jian Wang, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Jim Mather and Jiwen Fan, both from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

He further explained that it's tug - of - war between evaporation from hotter weather and the supply of moisture through precipitation, as noted by Popular Mechanics.

Once Thor and Loki learn that Odin is dead, they scarcely have time to mourn before their long - ago banished sister, Hela, the Norse goddess of death (Cate Blanchett, doing exactly what would be expected of the villainess from Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull), materializes and lays claim to the throne, projecting her brothers to a planet where metallic detritus is the precipitation and society is organized around a gladiator pit lorded over by Jeff Goldblum.

As the month goes on, the probability of precipitation at some point during the day decreases from 61 % on February 1st down to 56 % by February 28th.

The model variables that are evaluated against all sorts of observations and measurements range from solar radiation and precipitation rates, air and sea surface temperatures, cloud properties and distributions, winds, river runoff, ocean currents, ice cover, albedos, even the maximum soil depth reached by plant roots (seriously!).

He cited a recent analysis by scientists from the National Climatic Data Center that confirmed earlier studies showing a substantial increase already in the intensity of precipitation across the United States, interspersed by longer dry spells.

Proxies are used by paleoclimatologists and include ice cores, tree rings, lake sediments (varves), pollen counts, or anything that results from temperature or precipitation changes.

Unfortunately, the figure also confirms that the spatial resolution of theoutput from the GCMs used in the Mediterranean study is too coarse for constructing detailed regional scenarios.To develop more detailed regional scenarios, modelers can combine the GCM results with output from statistical models.3 This is done by constructing a statistical model to explain the observed temperature or precipitation at a meteorological station in terms of a range of regionally - averaged climate variables.

Change from old H0 «Precipitation hasn't increased» to new H0 is «Precipitation has increased by 5 %».

But all he has done in moving from old H0 to new H0 is choose a Ho that makes it impossible to add weight to his desired H1: («Precipitation has increased by 5 %»).

As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»

Also part of the explanation is the claim that more humid air results in more precipitation, but again I'm unclear on why warmer air can cause more water to be evaporated, but warmer air does not by the same mechanism prevent the same water from condensing.

From the perspective of soil moisture, the ongoing drought is the worst in at least the last 1,200 years, the study found, adding that the high temperatures in the past few years may have aggravated the precipitation deficits by nearly 40 %.

Carbon dioxide has constantly been removed from the atmosphere by precipitation and photosynthesis.

Evidence that extreme precipitation is increasing is based primarily on analysis1, 2,3 of hourly and daily precipitation observations from the U.S. Cooperative Observer Network, and is supported by observed increases in atmospheric water vapor.4 Recent publications have projected an increase in extreme precipitation events, 1,5 with some areas getting larger increases6 and some getting decreases.7, 2

These methods have been significantly improved by fully coupling the hydrologic cycle among land, lake, and atmosphere.94, 95 Without accounting for that cycle of interactions, a study96 concluded that increases in precipitation would be negated by increases in winter evaporation from less ice cover and by increases in summer evaporation and evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, under a scenario of continued increases in global emissions (SRES A2 scenario).

Dr Vladimir Djurdjevic, from the South East European Virtual Climate Change Center (SEEVCCC, Serbia), presented the main activities and products developed by the SEEVCCC, which include the development of a Climate Monitoring Node with monthly and daily data used to prepare monthly analyses of precipitation and temperature anomalies of the previous months, a climate monitoring specific for the region.

Water levels are influenced by the amount of evaporation from decreased ice cover and warmer air temperatures, by evapotranspiration from warmer air temperatures, and by potential increases in inflow from more precipitation.

However, the OBSERVED and MEASURED NET heat energy flow is FROM the oceans TO the atmosphere, as evidenced by evaporation and the subsequent formation of clouds, and eventually, precipitation.

As in previous dry periods, precipitation - inducing winter storms were steered away from California by a persistent atmospheric ridging system in the North Pacific.

Interestingly they do this by extracting just three state variables from the simulator runs and precipitation is not one of them.

The idea is that outside air goes through a very long incoming conduit into the precipitation chamber and then returns through an equally long outgoing conduit that is placed right beside the incoming one and separated from it by a thin membrane of some thermally conducting substance, e.g. copper (expensive) or aluminum (scrap aluminum runs around $ 1400 / ton today).

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.