Sentences with phrase «drive changes in precipitation patterns»

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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.

These shape the 4 - dimensional pattern of temperature and other changes — the patterns of circulation, latent heating, and precipitation will shift, as can the cycles driven the imposed diurnal and seasonal cycles in incident solar radiation; the texture of internal variability can also shift.

Such drying is a feature of human - caused climate change in that human - forced warming due to fossil fuel burning increases evaporation rates and related stress to forests even as it drives fundamental alterations to precipitation patterns that can substantially worsen drought and wildfire intensity.