Sentences with phrase «extreme events in nature»

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They have shown that there is substantial genetic variation in nature for both long - term seasonal acclimation and short - term acclimation associated with rapid extreme weather events.

The study, published yesterday in the journal Nature Geoscience, has the potential to improve forecasts of such extreme events.

Random processes in nature often underlie a so - called normal distribution that enables reliable estimation for the appearance of extreme statistical events.

On the one hand, we live in a changing world, and all extreme events are caused by both climate change and nature.

What goes up, must come down and, more and more, that water vapor is coming down in extreme precipitation events — defined in North America as more than 100 millimeters of rainfall (or the equivalent in snow or freezing rain) falling in 24 hours — according to new research also published February 17 in Nature that examines such events in the Northern Hemisphere.

Expected increases in extreme heat and drought events will bring changes in precipitation, air and water temperatures, air density and humidity, write Matthew Bartos and Mikhail Chester in the current issue of the research journal Nature Climate Change.

A study recently published in Nature suggests that an extreme global warming event 56 million years ago known as the Palaeocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) was driven by massive CO2 emissions from volcanoes during the formation of the North Atlantic Ocean.

Climate change could mean England is in for more such extreme rainfall events because of increasing moisture in the atmosphere and changes in atmospheric weather patterns, a new study detailed online Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change finds.

In a study released today in Nature Geoscience, we show that extreme weather events in Australia such as drought and bushfire are linked to temperature changes in the Indian OceaIn a study released today in Nature Geoscience, we show that extreme weather events in Australia such as drought and bushfire are linked to temperature changes in the Indian Oceain Nature Geoscience, we show that extreme weather events in Australia such as drought and bushfire are linked to temperature changes in the Indian Oceain Australia such as drought and bushfire are linked to temperature changes in the Indian Oceain the Indian Ocean.

There are two new papers in Nature this week that go right to the heart of the conversation about extreme events and their potential relationship to climate change.

The journal Nature has published a helpful update on scientists» efforts to narrow one of the biggest gaps in climate science — the inability to reliably gauge the role of greenhouse - driven warming in determining the intensity of the kinds of extreme climate events that matter most to societies — from hurricanes to heat waves.

So: The study finds a fingerprint of anthropogenic influences on large scale increase in precipitation extremes, with remaining uncertainties — namely that there is still a possibility that the widespread increase in heavy precipitation could be due to an unusual event of natural variability.The intensification of extreme rainfall is expected with warming, and there is a clear physical mechanism for it, but it is never possible to completely separate a signal of external forcing from climate variability — the separation will always be statistical in nature.

Published in Nature Communications, the study shows more frequent extreme events including both extremely dry and wet events are likely to occur.

Now Dr Cai and colleagues report once again in Nature Climate Change that the same is true for what one might call the oscillation's downside: global warming is likely to double the frequency of extreme La Niña events, too.

When what previoisly were «once in a century» extreme events begin to happen every few years, the extreme becomes the norm and such is the nature of regime change or dragon Kings.

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Today, a new review paper in Nature Climate Change suggests we can expect more of the same in future, with rising temperatures set to almost double the frequency of extreme El Niño events.

A new study (doi: 10.1038 / nature12350) published in nature, explores the impacts of extreme weather events on the carbon cycle.

The study, published Sunday in the journal Nature Climate Change, is the first to find correlations between rapid Arctic warming and extreme summer weather events, since previous research had focused on the links between Arctic warming and fall and winter weather patterns.

The third story covers the release of a recent paper in Nature Geoscience on short - duration extreme rainfall events, on which PCIC Director Francis Zwiers is a co-author.

Nature paper As a consequence, a 25 % to 100 % increase in extreme dry - to - wet precipitation events is projected, despite only modest changes in mean precipitation.

Dr Zemp and other scientists from Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden and Brazil report in Nature Communications that their results suggest frequent extreme drought events in the region have the potential to destabilise large parts of the Amazon forest.