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A prominent (in the media, anyway) research study last year by Rutgers's Jennifer Francis and University of Wisconsin's Stephen Vavrus suggests that the declining temperature difference between the Arctic and the lower latitudes (adding greenhouse gases into the atmosphere warms colder, drier regions more so than warmer, wetter ones — with the notable exception of Antarctica) has led to changes in the jet stream which result in slower moving, and potentially stronger East Coast winter storm systems.

«Although we have found that this process is happening slower than first thought, if global warming exceeds 3 °C, wet regions will likely get more than 10 per cent wetter and dry regions more than 10 per cent drier, which could have disastrous implications for river flows and agriculture.»

Not exact matches

At that same time, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Control's Fourth Assessment Report called climate change an «unequivocal» threat to humanity's stability; extinction rates were accelerating; dry regions were becoming more arid; and global fisheries were collapsing.

«More than 2,600 sharp - edged flakes, flake fragments, and cores (cobbles from which flakes have been removed), found in the fine - grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia, have been dated to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago, pushing back by more than 150,000 years the known date at which humans were making stone tools.&raMore than 2,600 sharp - edged flakes, flake fragments, and cores (cobbles from which flakes have been removed), found in the fine - grained sediments of a dry riverbed in the Afar region of Ethiopia, have been dated to between 2.52 and 2.60 million years ago, pushing back by more than 150,000 years the known date at which humans were making stone tools.&ramore than 150,000 years the known date at which humans were making stone tools.»

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Known historically as the Montafi Ranch Vineyard, this property will join the Seghesio portfolio of more than 300 acres across celebrated Sonoma County regions including the Alexander, Dry Creek and Russian River Valleys which all contribute to Seghesio's Sonoma, Home Ranch, Cortina, Old Vine and Rockpile Zinfandels.

Not only does their certified organic business convert distressed vineyards in the Sunraysia region to organic dried fruit resulting in more than 4,300 acres of organic farmland, but they also process and package their own fruit in organic facilities in Mildura and Dandenong.

In the grain - growing areas we've had an average winter crop but some of the more western regions missed out through a combination of dry weather and frost,» he said.

Climate models predict that as global temperatures rise over the next seven decades, subtropical regions like the American Southwest will get drier, while more northern areas, including much of Canada, will get wetter.

Earth's dry regions have more trees than once thought — a hopeful note in the fight against climate change.

And climate models predict wet regions will become wetter and dry regions drier, which means more rain for all of the UK, not just the coasts.

In some tropical and subtropical regions it is more common to speak of the rainy (or wet, or monsoon) season versus the dry season, as the amount of precipitation may vary more dramatically than the average temperature.

This decreases natural storm runoff during high - flow winter months while contributing proportionately more water to streamflows during the drier months that make up about 80 percent of the region's calendar year.

The more water is extracted from underground, the harder it becomes to restore the region's rivers and reservoirs — some of which no longer flow through the summer — simultaneously sucking them dry from above and below.

Ocean floats provide yet more evidence of global warming, revealing that rainy regions are getting wetter and dry regions drier much faster than predicted

Peanuts are equally popular in both regions, but in the west, dry - roasted peanuts are more prevalent.

Climate models produced by the Meteorological Office's Hadley Centre suggest that reductions in rainfall will be greatest in the south of the Mediterranean region, with «more prolonged dry periods».

If grasslands worldwide behave as in the experiment, C4 grasslands — found in warm, dry regions — may absorb more CO2 than thought, while more abundant C3 plants could soak up less.

The projected impacts of a warming atmosphere and oceans on the Earth's hydrological cycle — dry regions likely becoming drier, while wet ones become more wet — will likely exacerbate this already dire situation.

Computer model projections of future conditions analyzed by the Scripps team indicate that regions such as the Amazon, Central America, Indonesia, and all Mediterranean climate regions around the world will likely see the greatest increase in the number of «dry days» per year, going without rain for as many as 30 days more every year.

Therefore, drought plays a more prominent role in northern regions (generally wetter and more productive) than southern regions (drier), possibly because in southern areas the vegetation is better adapted to water scarcity.

Geologist David Marchant of Boston University has spent more than 20 research seasons in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica, discovering not only how the region formed and evolved over time, but possible analogs to the geology of Mars.

And a drought of that severity was made much more likely by the ongoing human - driven drying of that region.»

In the more southerly regions of this zone, the forest is wetter, thicker, and more contiguous, but it still depends on fog to survive dry summer conditions.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

«Our study indicates that climate models might have a more limited ability to predict which regions will get drier and which regions will get wetter with global warming than previously assumed.»

The resulting mapped index showed drier regions in the East Cascades and Blue Mountains becoming more vulnerable to mortality under recent climate conditions.

Whilst the weather can be more temperamental at altitude, I had chosen to take my trip during the peak of the region's dry season.

There are subtle effects such as the planet losing more heat from the open sea than from ice - covered region (some of this heat is absorbed by the atmosphere, but climates over ice - covered regions are of more continental winter character: dry and cold).

For more on efficient water use in agriculture in dry regions, click back to my post on the pioneering work on drip irrigation by Daniel Hillel and read about how solar - powered pumping systems and drip irrigation are improving incomes and lives in sub-Saharan Africa.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

The best available science indicates that the arid and semi-arid regions of the world will become even more so: the dry areas of the world will become drier (while conversely, the wet areas will become wetter).

We didn't ever buy or build a clothes wringer, as we lived in a dry sunny region, but that could be an effective method of speeding up the drying process, especially in more humid locations.

What could threaten world food security more than the melting of the glaciers that feed the major rivers of Asia during the dry season, the rivers that irrigate the region's rice and wheat fields?

«Arctic Amplification» form CO2 was not primarily from the (theorectical) loss - of - ice / increase in albedo meme so often used, but ratehr it began from the relative amounts of GHG's in the warmer, more water - vapor laden equatorial climates to the very dry Arctic regions.

«More rain in a dry region can be good news,» said Jacob Schewe from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK).

As the earth warms, we expect to see currently wet regions receiving more rainfall, and dry regions receiving less, although there will be exceptions,» Stocker said.

Noting more frequent and extreme rainfall in the Sahel, Mali asked why dry regions were not mentioned, to which the CLAs responded that, because of natural variability, the same statement could not be made for dry regions.

As aquifers are depleted and irrigation wells go dry, farmers either revert to low - yield dryland farming or, in the more arid regions, abandon farming altogether.

The effects of human - induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat - loving insects.

As the Hadley Cell expands, dry air flowing from the tropics falls in the subtropics creating regions that are more arid.

Because of the increase in moisture content, existing wind patterns carry more moisture and strengthen the atmospheric branch of the hydrological cycle: storms bring more rainfall, wet regions get wetter, and dry regions get drier (Held and Soden 2006, O'Gorman and Schneider 2009).

As Columbia University notes, «An increase in evaporative drying means that even regions expected to get more rain, including important wheat, corn, and rice belts in the western United States and southeastern China, will be at risk of drought.»

To do so, you'd need a study such as mine which shows water vapour cools and more moist regions have lower mean daily maximum and minimum temperatures than drier regions at similar latitudes and altitudes.

Those regions do experience frequent dry periods, but not more often than they have in the past.

The fact that people have such discussions with a straight face at the same time as they can not actually say which regions will be warmer, cooler, wetter, drier, more extreme, less extreme (i.e. provide people with some kind of advice on what to plan for at a scale relevant to investment decisions) it quite incredible to me.

Evidence that permafrost thaw leads to drier landscapes87, 88 is beginning to accumulate, especially as improved remote sensing tools are applied to assess more remote regions.83

It is worth noting that wildfire incidences like this one, which are occurring across the globe now more frequently, with greater severity, and causing more damage than ever, also function as yet another feedback loop in regard to ACD: As the planet warms, arid regions dry further, causing more wildfires, which warm the planet further, and so the cycle amplifies itself.

Saturated air can contain nearly 80 times more heat than dry air — are the temperature stations that GISS is using in low humidity regions?

Increased evaporation can dry out some regions while, at the same time, result in more rain falling in other areas due to the excess moisture in the atmosphere.