Sentences with phrase «energetic hydrological cycle»

This, as climate models suggest, and what seems to have been happening in the climate system, is to produce a more energetic hydrological cycle, resulting in more extreme weather conditions — more severe droughts, more sever floods.

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One of the topics on my perpetually growing reading list will be the changing energetics of the changing hydrological cycle.

The heat pipe analogy is more appropriate to the whole hydrological cycle, the essential energetics of which occur at the surface (the hot evaporating end), in the clouds where the larger water droplets accelerate condensation, and in precipitation, which converts very slowly acquired potential energy back into kinetic and thermal energy very quickly.