Sentences with phrase «experience precipitation increases»

Although the current study is limited by the fact that the authors looked only at runoff and held other variables such as land cover constant, the results could be relevant to other regions that are likely to experience precipitation increases in a warming world.

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The northwestern US, including Montana, experiences increased precipitation and cooler temperatures, while the southern states are drier and warmer during La Niña events.

Severe Weather and Precipitation: Many areas in the United States will experience more frequent and extreme storm events; this includes high winds and increased pPrecipitation: Many areas in the United States will experience more frequent and extreme storm events; this includes high winds and increased precipitationprecipitation.

El Nino years usually increase the chance of precipitation, but in our experience, there is rarely enough rain to greatly impact your trip at any time of year.

Thus, some areas of the tropics should experience substantial increases in precipitation, which, at high elevations, will come in the form of snow.

The IPCC reports that the risks associated with extreme weather events (heat waves, extreme precipitation, and the like) are moderately increased with the approximately 1 °C warming that we have already experienced (the recent report from the National Academies would support that conclusion) and that further warming will increase those risks.

As researchers documented in this graph, the region had experienced increasing precipitation during the Little Ice Age, followed by a sharp drying trend that began in the late 1700s, which triggered Kilimanjaro's retreat long before CO2 ever reached significant concentrations.

• «Average autumn precipitation has increased by 30 percent for the region since 1901; heavy downpours have increased in many parts of the region, and the percentage of the region experiencing moderate to severe drought has risen over the past three decades.»

The team found that, like many glaciers in this region, these two experienced a combination of warming temperatures and increased precipitation in recent years.

Climatic variability in summer is projected to increase, with southern Europe experiencing more heat, less precipitation, and more frequent droughts — yet heavier rainstorms when it does rain.23 Northern Europe can expect more overall precipitation.21 Smog is also expected to rise — unless we reduce our use of fossil fuels.28, 29,30,31

Between 1958 and 2007, New England saw a 67 percent increase in heavy precipitation events and the Midwest experienced a 31 percent increase, according to the 2009 federal report «Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States.»

The Arctic has of course also experienced a dramatic and well - documented deline in sea ice... Next: CMIP5 models (line19) Increasing precipitation is another important manifestation of Arctic climate change.

About 40 percent of the world's subtropics and tropics could experience an increase in consecutive dry days (the annual number of consecutive days in which precipitation is less than one millimeter per day).

The robustly project increased moisture flux convergence and precipitation in the pan-Arctic region over the 21st century, as did their AR4 counterparts (Kattsov et al., 2007; Rawlins et al., 2010 Then we get: since nearly all models project a large precipitation increase rising above the variability year - round, it is likely the pan-Arctic region will experience a statistically - significant increase in precipitation by mid-century.

Many basins in the tropical Andes have experienced an increase in runoff in recent decades, while precipitation has remained almost constant or has shown a tendency to decrease (Coudrain et al., 2005).

«[C] ommunities across the Nation are already experiencing a range of climatic changes, including more frequent and extreme precipitation events, longer wildfire seasons, reduced snowpack, extreme heat events, increasing ocean temperatures, and rising sea levels,» the report says.

In the fifty years from 1958 through 2007, the Northeast has experienced a 67 % increase in intense storms (defined as the heaviest 1 % of all precipitation events), according to the United States Global Change Research Program.

Our analyses show that California has historically been more likely to experience drought if precipitation deficits co-occur with warm conditions and that such confluences have increased in recent decades, leading to increases in the fraction of low - precipitation years that yield drought.

Impacts harmful to society, including increased extremes of heat, precipitation, and coastal high water are currently being experienced, and are projected to increase.

Based on SRES scenarios, Egypt will be likely to experience an increase in water stress, with a projected decline in precipitation and a projected population of between 115 and 179 million by 2050.

• New England and the Mid-Atlantic experienced the largest increase in extreme precipitation frequency.

The green and blue colours, therefore, represent the minimum (dark blue) and maximum (all green and blue colours) extent of regions projected to experience temperature and precipitation increases above the limits set earlier.

Mean precipitation has increased across Canada by about 12 % in the last 50 years, meaning we now experience 20 additional days of rain.3