Sentences with phrase «dry regions get»

Paradoxically, climate change is projected to bring both more heavy rainstorms and more droughts, as dry regions get drier and wet areas get wetter, overall.

A theoretically expected consequence of the intensification of the hydrological cycle under global warming is that on average, wet regions get wetter and dry regions get drier (WWDD).

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).

Especially in the tropical oceans, there are large regions where zonally anomalous wet regions get drier and zonally anomalous dry regions get wetter.

Scientists have broadly observed, and continue to expect, that climate change leads to dry regions getting drier, and wet regions wetter.

Not exact matches

Almost every parent, living with their newborns in a region that gets very cold in winter, or has a dry climate, must have been suggested to get a humidifier by many people.

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.

Meanwhile, dry regions in the subtropics will get even drier because of atmospheric circulation patterns that carry water vapor away to higher latitudes.

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

From the Middle East to the Australian outback and the African savannah, many of Earth's driest regions are getting greener.

But the IPCC will admit that it still can not say whether many regions will get wetter or drier.

Those patterns matched three rather dire climate model predictions: that storm tracks — the paths along which cyclones travel in the Northern and Southern hemispheres — would shift poleward; that subtropical dry regions would expand, and that the tops of the highest clouds would get even higher.

Instrumental measurements are also too short to test the ability of state - of - the - art climate models to predict which regions of the hemisphere will get drier, or wetter, with global warming,» says Charpentier Ljungqvist.

Earth's wet regions are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier, but it is happening at a slower rate than previously thought, research shows.

Research from the University of Southampton has provided robust evidence that wet regions of Earth are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier but it is happening at a slower rate than previously thought.

Dr Nikolaos Skliris, a Research Fellow at the University of Southampton who led the study, said: «Our findings match what has been predicted by models of a warming climate; as the world gets warmer wet regions will continue to get wetter and dry regions will continue to get drier.

«The world's wet regions are getting wetter, the dry regions are getting drier.»

«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.»

The researchers found that the regions, which are relatively wet, like Northern Europe are getting wetter and dry regions are getting drier both by about 2 per cent over the last 60 years.

«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.»

Potentially dull races can get mixed up by the joys of a dynamic weather system so that an early drizzle could leave you trying to decide when to swap over to dry tyres, or an early lap in qualifying can land you pole position because the heaven's suddenly open and decide that the region would really be improved with a new lake.

So wet region tend to get wetter and dry region drier.

The Sahel, one of the hottest regions on Earth ranging from the Atlantic coast south of the Sahara Desert to the Red Sea to the east and the Horn of Africa to the southeast, is getting drier and drier and... Continue reading →

There's an expansion of the dry subtropical zone to higher latitudes, so regions like California, like Syria, both areas that have seen unprecedented drought, are expected to get drier.

Smith paints a picture of wet regions of the globe getting wetter, parched regions becoming drier, and increasingly erratic and dangerous weather events.

«Earlier studies suggest that warmer regions will get wetter, while colder regions can get wetter or drier,» he said.

The increase in zonal variance of P — E means that regions that are wetter than the zonal mean will get wetter on average and that regions that are drier than the zonal mean will get drier on average.

For the most part, wet regions will get wetter and dry regions will get drier as the amount of water the atmosphere can carry increases with warming.

Whether in general dry regions were getting drier, and wet regions wetter, remained uncertain; see Greve et al. (2014).

Observational records show that anthropogenic - influenced climate change has already had a profound impact on global and U.S. warm season climate over the past 30 years, and there is increasing contrast between geographic regions that are climatologically wet and dry - the hypothesis that the «wet gets wetter, dry gets drier» is seen in a new paper by Chang et al..

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.»

By 2100, models project that many regions — including, the Mediterranean, Southwest US and southern Africa — are likely to get drier should greenhouse gas emissions continue unabated.

«The reason the Arctic and Antarctic did not get really mentioned in the arctic is because the dynamical changes that relate to dry and wet areas (in the region) is just not well - known,» he said.

In this map from the study published in Science Advances, regions shown in green and blue will likely get wetter as the planet warms, and regions show in brown shades will get drier.

As a response [and as consequence of an increase in the general circulation] on average dry regions would get drier, and wet regions would become wetter.

Please provide a scientific paper that concludes that the parts of the Earth that are getting drier / browner are outpacing the regions that are getting wetter / greener.

That's according to a new study which finds that since 1979, the region's dry season has got about a week longer each decade.

The region is currently experiencing dry spells which are expected to continue up to mid / late March when the onset of the seasonal rains is expected to get established.

The region is currently experiencing dry spells which are expected to continue up to late February to early March when the onset of the seasonal rains is likely to get established.

Steppe - dry region that gets enough rainfall for short grasses & bushes to grow.

In majic airplanes of course:) The semi-serious answer is that at the least you have to get very high up (Mauna Kea or the Atacama) in dry places to eliminate the water vapor, and if you want to look in the regions of the IR covered by the ozone and CO2 bands you need satellites

CH1: «Climate change is likely to amplify precipitation patterns around the world, so that wet regions will generally get wetter and dry regions drier.

Precipitation patterns will change, with some regions getting much wetter and others much drier.

Wet regions will get wetter while arid regions will dry even more.