Sentences with phrase «expected climatic warming»
The authors note that although their study indicates a general decrease of rainfall under expected climatic warming, uncertainties remain, for instance regarding the response of clouds.
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Overall, these high record numbers are quantitatively consistent with those expected for the observed climatic warming trend with added stationary white noise.
They reported that «no catastrophic hurricane of category 4 or 5 intensity has made landfall in the Western Lake [northern Florida] area during the last 130 year documentary record» but «If future climatic changes, whether or not related to the anticipated greenhouse warming, lead to a return of a «hyperactive» hurricane regime characteristic of the first millennium A.D., then the northeastern Gulf Coast is expected to experience a dramatic increase in the frequency of strikes by catastrophic hurricanes.»
In a Politico article, Deke Arndt, chief of the climate monitoring branch at NOAA's National Climatic Data Center writes, «The heat that we saw in the U.S. (in 2012) is consistent with what we would expect in a warming world.
As climatic warming is expected to bring more intense droughts and stronger storms, understanding their effect on tropical and forest ecosystems becomes ever more important.
«In the first instance, climatic warming might be expected to degrade permafrost, but the relationship may not be quite so straightforward,» Nelson said.
The annual temperature for 2007 across the contiguous United States is expected to be near 54.3 degrees Fahrenheit — making the year the eighth warmest since records were first begun in 1895, according to preliminary date from NOAA's National Climatic Data Center.
Uncertainty about the future climatic effect of carbon dioxide emissions consists of two parts: the future carbon dioxide concentration given current levels of emissions, and the amount of warming that can be expected from a given carbon dioxide concentration.