Sentences with phrase «drive precipitation decrease»

Schematics of the teleconnection through which Arctic sea - ice changes drive precipitation decrease over California.

arctic chart Schematics of the teleconnection through which Arctic sea - ice changes drive precipitation decrease over California.

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The same change, if driven by winter precipitation, would require about a 25 % decrease in local precipitation at this site.

Drought is expected to increase in frequency and severity in the future as a result of climate change, mainly as a consequence of decreases in regional precipitation but also because of increasing evaporation driven by global warming1 — 3.

Amazon forest loss drives significant increases in precipitation from Dec - May (April excluded, Fig 3F), which corresponds temporally to increased soil moisture saturation and decreases in later, growing season limitations.

Increases in woody cover were associated with low population growth, and were driven by increases in CO2 in the humid zones and by increases in precipitation in drylands, whereas decreases in woody cover were associated with high population growth.

The retreat has been most noticeable at high elevations, driven in large part by warming temperatures contributing directly to melting and indirectly to more precipitation falling as rain rather than snow, in turn increasing the rate at which the glaciers move and increasing the size of glacial lakes, both decreasing ice cover.