Sentences with phrase «explained by precipitation»

The aspect of the paper that has attracted the most attention is the claim that the retreat of the Kilimanjaro summit glaciers can be explained by precipitation reduction, without any compelling need to invoke a warming trend in local air temperature.

Not exact matches

It remains unknown whether the clusters form critical nuclei that grow classically by single - ion attachment or aggregate and then precipitate and how the precipitation of different ACC phases at different pH values can be explained precisely, because several options exist (Fig. 4).

«Hotspots show that vegetation alters climate by up to 30 percent: Engineers find strong feedbacks between the atmosphere and vegetation that explain up to 30 % of precipitation and surface radiation variance; study reveals large potential for improving seasonal weather predictions.»

Future modeling may explain some of the study's seemingly paradoxical findings, including the fact that, even as fires decreased by 2 to 7 percent each year from 2006 to 2013, precipitation during those years did not increase proportionately.

So apparently you're suggesting that decadal - scale precipitation patterns (more, less rainfall) and temperature changes are better explained by atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

He further explained that it's tug - of - war between evaporation from hotter weather and the supply of moisture through precipitation, as noted by Popular Mechanics.

Unfortunately, the figure also confirms that the spatial resolution of theoutput from the GCMs used in the Mediterranean study is too coarse for constructing detailed regional scenarios.To develop more detailed regional scenarios, modelers can combine the GCM results with output from statistical models.3 This is done by constructing a statistical model to explain the observed temperature or precipitation at a meteorological station in terms of a range of regionally - averaged climate variables.

As you can see, the variability around the trend is largely explained by temperature and precipitation, while there is (near) zero influence on the trend itself...

These facts help explain why, in spite of the Earth's air temperature increasing to a level that the IPCC claims is unprecedented in the the past millennium or more, a recent study by Randall et al. (2013) found that the 14 % extra carbon dioxide fertilization caused by human emissions between 1982 and 2010 caused an average worldwide increase in vegetation foliage by 11 % after adjusting the data for precipitation effects.

The shift can be explained by changing precipitation patterns and higher average temperatures that make moisture evaporate from the soil more rapidly than in the past, the study said.

As I explained above — major dams are designed by a different method of estimating probable maximum precipitation from recorded high intensity storm precipitation transformed by local and regional factors including moisture availability.

The atmospheric warming is the factor that can best explain this consistency, up to ~ 0.7 °C since 1950 and more marked since 1976, while the trend in precipitation is much less homogeneous over this area and is affected by a significant decadal variability.

Depending on the region, the persistence from spring to summer of soil moisture or snow anomalies generated during spring by temperature and precipitation variations may explain river flows variations in summer, when no concomitant climate variations exist.

We conclude by underlining that the observed variation of glacier surface and SLA changes could be explained by the increase of temperature and decrease of precipitation in recent years.

Samuelson et al. -LRB-[2004]-RRB- showed a lag effect in the response of foliage to large changes in precipitation by correlating current growth of loblolly pine (Pinus taeda) with the previous year's LAI, and Sperry et al. -LRB-[2002]-RRB- explained how combinations of soil texture and xylem can impose «hydraulic limits» on the ability of the foliage to maintain adequate pressure potentials to support a continuous water column.

This longer predictability of soil water condition relies on the natural filtering effect of soils, which is explained by the accumulation of precipitation amount rather than the individual precipitation event.

Thus, glaciers in the steep Himalayas are not only affected by temperature and precipitation, but also by debris coverage, and have no uniform and less predictable response, explained the authors.

«We show that anthropogenic forcing has had a detectable influence on observed changes in average precipitation within latitudinal bands, and that these changes can not be explained by internal climate variability or natural forcing.

«The evaporation and evapotranspiration levels considerably exceed rain precipitation, besides the erosion caused by infiltration,» explains Coronado.