Sentences with phrase «extreme precipitation trends»

An analysis of extreme precipitation trends in Europe during the 20th century has identified a wetting trend over central and western Europe from 1921 to 1999.

Not exact matches

Extreme rainfall events are trending upward, and nine of the top 10 years for extreme one - day precipitation events have happened since 1990.

-- Along with analyzing historical trends in temperature and precipitation, we performed an analysis of changes in extreme climate events since the middle of last century.

However, combined measuring stations around the world suggest there has been a global trend towards more frequent and intense hot extremes since the 1950s, as well as more heavy precipitation events.

I am interpreting that to mean that there is a trend towards increasing annual 1 - day extreme precipitation — but I am not sure how to quantify that change.

These variability trends indicate that the frequency of extremes (more drought events and more heavy precipitation events) has increased whereas the mean has remained approximately the same.

Averaging smoothes out day - to - day and year - to - year natural weather variability and extremes, removing much of the chaotic behavior, revealing any underlying long term trends in climate, such as a long term increase or decrease in temperature, or long term shifts in precipitation patterns.

Second Assessment of Climate Change for the Baltic Sea Basin https://books.google.com/books?isbn=3319160060 The BACC II Author Team averaged frequency of extreme 1 - day precipitation totals above 15 mm and a... 4.6 Cloudiness and Solar Radiation 4.6.1 Cloudiness Records of cloudiness and solar... There is a trend of decreasing cloud cover over the Baltic Sea basin......

There have also been some reports on trends of more extreme precipitation, although The International Ad Hoc Detection and Attribution Group (IDAG, 2005) did not manage to attribute trends in precipitation to anthropogenic greenhouse gases (G)-- a quote from their review article is: «For diurnal temperature range (DTR) and precipitation, detection is not achieved», here «detection» implying the signal of G.

We do know that there are trends in temperature extremes and precipitation extremes (which are backed solidly by physics in a warming climate), but for the other metrics we don't really see trends at all.

At the tail end of the full paper, capping a paragraph about a weak spot in the analysis — that the observed trend in extreme precipitation events exceeds what is produced by various climate models — comes a sentence about uncertainties:

This apparent inconsistency says little about the overall trend in the heaviest precipitation events, but a lot about the weaknesses of single - point measurements for detecting trends in extreme precipitation.

Our state level analyses of extreme precipitation events shows a strong increasing trend since the 1950s, with 40 of 48 states showing at least some increasing incidence.

More accurate and reliable precipitation data would be invaluable, not only for the study of climate trends and variability, but also as inputs to hydrological and ecological models and for model validation, characterization of extreme events, and flood and drought forecasting.

In the mid-latitudes, where most of the continental U.S. is located, there is an upward trend in extreme precipitation in the vicinity of fronts associated with mid-latitude storms.1 Locally, natural variations can also be important.14

For regional climate predictability, the added value of RCMs should come from better resolving the relationship between mean (temperature) trends and key indicators that are supposedly better represented in the high resolution projections utilizing additional local information, such as temperature or precipitation extremes.

Swain and a team of three other researchers from Stanford, Northwestern and Columbia universities looked at data between 1949 and 2015 to see if there were any trends in the kinds of atmospheric patterns that historically resulted in meteorological extremes in California in terms of both temperature and precipitation.

In contrast, while many African countries experience a similar trend in rapid urban coastal growth, the level of economic development is generally lower and consequently the capacity to adapt is smaller Coastal industries, their supporting infrastructure including transport (ports, roads, rail and airports), power and water supply, storm water and sewerage are highly sensitive to a range of extreme weather and climate events including temporary and permanent flooding arising from extreme precipitation, high winds, storm surges and sea level rise.

Presents the trends in daily and extreme temperature and precipitation indices in the Caribbean region for records spanning the 1961 — 2010 and 1986 — 2010 intervals

Rigorous analyses have shown that natural variability alone can not explain the observed long - term trends of changing extremes in temperature and precipitation.12

Previous studies on the modification of precipitation trends by quantile mapping have focused on mean quantities, with less attention paid to extremes.

Winter precipitation (mean and extreme) variability and trends along the south coast and interior of Alaska appear to be closely related to variations in the PNA pattern over this timeframe, while El Nino / Southern Oscillation (ENSO) influences, through the Nino3 index, appear to be significant along the south coast alone.

Zilli M. T., L. M. V. Carvalho, B. Liebmann and M. A. S. Dias (April 2017): A comprehensive analysis of trends in extreme precipitation over southeastern coast of Brazil.

With regard to storminess and precipitation, the TAR states that there is no trend towards extremes.

As the site «Not A Lot of People Know That» reports, extreme and severe rainfall (i.e. precipitation) trend has not increased in Holland, when viewed from a decadal perspective.

In the contiguous United States, 40 states experienced a statistically significant trend toward increasingly frequent storms with extreme precipitation.