Sentences with phrase «century under a high emissions scenario»

The county can expect an average of 15 weeks per year at or below freezing by late century under a high emissions scenario, compared to about 23 weeks of those temperatures from 1981 to 2010.

The name «Nevada» is Spanish for «snow - capped,» but winter temperatures in the county are projected to average just shy of 50oF by late century under a high emissions scenario, which could leave mountainous areas like Donner Summit covered in brown, not white.

2: Our Changing Climate, Key Messages 5 and 6).4, 10 A range of model projections for the end of this century under a higher emissions scenario (A2), averaged over the region, suggests about 5 % to 20 % (25th to 75th percentile of model projections) increases in winter precipitation.

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Under both modest and high greenhouse gas emissions scenarios, temperatures in the Colorado River Basin are projected to rise by 5 degrees Fahrenheit compared with the 20th - century average.

The draft's authors suggest that under the worst - case emissions scenario the modelers considered, global sea levels could rise by up to 1 meter by the end of the century, about two centimeters higher than the top of the range offered in 2007.

Model projections for precipitation changes are less certain than those for temperature.12, 2 Under a higher emissions scenario (A2), global climate models (GCMs) project average winter and spring precipitation by late this century (2071 - 2099) to increase 10 % to 20 % relative to 1971 - 2000, while changes in summer and fall are not expected to be larger than natural variations.

Under a high emissions scenario, Blaine County can expect a 40 % decline in the number of days at or below freezing by late century, falling from a historical annual average of more than 200 days to about 120.

Maps show projected change in average surface air temperature in the later part of this century (2071 - 2099) relative to the later part of the last century (1970 - 1999) under a scenario that assumes substantial reductions in heat trapping gases (B1) and a higher emissions scenario that assumes continued increases in global emissions (A2).

«Under the high emissions scenario, the 22nd century would be the century of hell,» Ben Strauss, a sea level scientist at Climate Central told the Washington Post.

An examination of how high temperatures throughout the year are projected to rise by the end of the century under two different emissions scenarios.

The paper concluded that worldwide temperatures could rise nearly 5 °C by the end of the century, 15 percent higher than the previous central estimate under the «business as usual» emissions scenario outlined by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.