Sentences with phrase «changing precipitation patterns»

Maddie Weiner says, «the Mendoza region [of Argentina] has already seen increasing temperatures, melting glaciers in the Andes Mountains, changing precipitation patterns, decreasing water availability and unpredictable storms.

GAO representatives visited 15 military installations, and at 12 of them found officials who said they had observed not only rising temperatures, stronger and more frequent storms, and changing precipitation patterns, but had also seen how those changes created «potential impacts of mission vulnerabilities,» the report said.

These events as well as warmer temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and rising sea levels are expected to intensify as climate change continues.

The warming climate is projected to make many now - dry areas dryer, in part by changing precipitation patterns.

A growing body of scientific research concludes that increased temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are altering the timing and availability of water resources in the western United States [3].

These include increased average land and ocean temperatures that lead to reduced snowpack levels, hydrological changes, and sea level rise; changing precipitation patterns that will create both drought and extreme rain events; and increasing atmospheric CO2 that will contribute to ocean acidification, changes in species composition, and increased risk of fires.

For example, the Climate and Health Assessment found that «rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and a higher frequency of some extreme weather events associated with climate change will influence the distribution, abundance, and prevalence» of some vectors like the mosquitos that carry the West Nile virus.

Climate change is quickly altering the face of the planet, increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and swallowing coastlines.

Now even that sector is facing difficulties because of changing precipitation patterns due to climate change.

Increased temperatures and changing precipitation patterns will alter soil moisture, which is important for agriculture and ecosystems and has many societal implications.

Changing precipitation patterns may affect the management of hydropower resources.

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.

MRD Journal: Abstract: Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns across the Hindu Kush — Himalaya (HKH) region resulting from climate change have an influence on water resource availability and food security for the downstream population.

Increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and changes in coastal ocean waters are affecting agricultural and fishery productivity.

Whether climate change is expressed as a rise in temperatures, or as changing precipitation patterns — it is at the extreme edges of the graph that the frequency of weather events suddenly multiplies dramatically.

Visible changes in hydrological cycle have been observed in the form of changing precipitation patterns, cropping patterns, droughts, water availability periods, frequency and intensity of heatwaves, precipitation events and weather - induced natural disasters.

Growing populations and changing precipitation patterns will increase competition among urban, industrial, agricultural, and natural ecosystem water needs in regions where overall water supply declines.

Rising temperatures and changing precipitation patterns will lead to relative changes in agricultural production, possibly spurring rural to urban migration, or migration across borders to seek more favorable conditions.

Warmer summers, changing precipitation patterns and a thinning snow pack are already «aridifying» Western forests, University of Montana Professor Steven Running said during a conference here last week.

This likely happened when volcano - spewed sulfur dioxide wafted high into the atmosphere, scattering sunlight back into space and briefly lowering global temperature and changing precipitation patterns, among other effects.

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.

Changing precipitation patterns helped Genghis Khan rise to power — and ride to victory across Eurasia

Warming climate is projected to make many now - dry areas dryer, in part by changing precipitation patterns.

It seems likely that a warming world will change precipitation patterns that would severely disrupt agriculture, but... the models are pretty bad at precipitation so the certainty on the detail is very low.

According to WHO soil water will be in short supply in many African countries due to global warming combined with changing precipitation pattern.

Because there is no data, no historical precedent, no basis beyond hand - waving assertions that SST warming will make for worse hurricanes and change precipitation patterns in famine - inducing ways.

Not exact matches

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.

Precipitation patterns will change, affecting agriculture, though it's not certain how.

As Cobb explained, climate scientists still lack a good understanding of how climate change will alter precipitation patterns.

According to research in the September Nature Climate Change, precipitation patterns in the area have increased, which may help larger glaciers such as this one stick around a while longer.

Dry places are expected to get drier with climate change, while wet places are expected to get wetter, but Crouch said that the particular precipitation pattern seen in June isn't what is expected in a warming world, according to the National Climate Assessment that was released in May.

In late June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released an assessment of how the consequences of climate change, from rising temperatures and sea levels to changes in precipitation patterns and sea ice cover, might impact the military.

Wrestling with natural variability Scientists have looked for these changes in rainfall patterns, but they are often difficult to distinguish because there is so much natural variability in precipitation.

Global precipitation patterns are being moved in new directions by climate change, a new study has found.

The explanation for this could be that the global warming is not yet strong enough to trigger the changes in precipitation patterns that climate models simulate,» reports Charpentier Ljungqvist.

However, the simulations indicate that the sea - ice driven precipitation changes resemble the global rainfall patterns observed during that drought, leaving the possibility that Arctic sea - ice loss could have played a role in the recent drought.

They will look for evidence of temperature changes caused by ocean circulation patterns in both the North Atlantic and tropical Pacific Oceans, which drive precipitation in Tibet as well as the Indian monsoons.

A team of scientists from Vanderbilt and Stanford universities have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy - turvy climate of the period and are using it to test and improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.

Some modeling studies of such effects have suggested drought in the western U.S. or changes in precipitation patterns across Europe.

«Observing rainfall in an El Niño year is especially interesting because the prevailing precipitation patterns change, often in extreme ways.

They found that the business - as - usual scenario comes with large climate changes the world over and would create entirely new patterns of temperature and precipitation for 12 to 39 percent of Earth's land area.

Although the rising average global surface temperature is an indicator of the degree of disruption that we have imposed on the global climate system, what's actually happening involves changes in circulation patterns, changes in precipitation patterns, and changes in extremes.

The study could help narrow the range of uncertainty around how climate change is expected to alter California's precipitation patterns.

«We need to look at the changes in total precipitation and the timing and distribution of run - off patterns and see how that lines up with our current infrastructure,» Fahlund said in an email.

Changes in precipitation patterns and possibly decreased precipitation in some parts of Africa, which will be unable to support crops and human habitation in the future, would have repercussions, said Roger - Mark De Souza, director of population, environmental security and resilience at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

Key weather and climate drivers of health impacts include increasingly frequent, intense, and longer - lasting extreme heat, which worsens drought, wildfire, and air pollution risks; increasingly frequent extreme precipitation, intense storms, and changes in precipitation patterns that lead to drought and ecosystem changes (Ch.

«Changes to precipitation patterns and sea levels are likely to have much greater human impact than the higher temperatures alone,» the report said.

The westerlies in the Northern Hemisphere, which increased from the 1960s to the 1990s but which have since returned to about normal as part of NAO and NAM changes, alter the flow from oceans to continents and are a major cause of the observed changes in winter storm tracks and related patterns of precipitation and temperature anomalies, especially over Europe.

The study projects that, by 2020 and into the 2080s, Washington will experience higher temperatures, changes in precipitation patterns, and lower summer water supplies.

However, if changes in climate and / or future development result in higher demand and higher capacity withdrawals, we may begin to see long - term declines, regardless of precipitation patterns.