Sentences with phrase «end of precipitation extremes»

At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.

At the opposite end of precipitation extremes, drought also poses risks to public health and safety.192 Drought conditions may increase the environmental exposure to a broad set of health hazards including wildfires, dust storms, extreme heat events, flash flooding, degraded water quality, and reduced water quantity.

Not exact matches

At the tail end of the full paper, capping a paragraph about a weak spot in the analysis — that the observed trend in extreme precipitation events exceeds what is produced by various climate models — comes a sentence about uncertainties:

The results indicate that extreme precipitation events consistently increase by the middle of the twenty - first century for all return periods (49 — 52 %), but changes may become more profound by the end of the twenty - first century (81 — 101 %).