Sentences with phrase «drier over the course of this century»

The climate of the western United States could become much drier over the course of this century.

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The Nature study suggests that global warming will mix growing amounts of higher, drier air with ocean clouds over the course of the century, thinning out the clouds and reducing their cooling effect.

Coincident with the increasing amplitude and variability of the «dipole» pattern (Wang et al. 2014), big swings in California precipitation (i.e. the occurrence of both very wet years and very dry years) are expected to become more common over the course of the 21st century (Wang et al. 2014, Funk et al. 2014).