Sentences with phrase «extreme rainfall»

A warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, for example, which raises the risk of extreme rainfall events and the flooding they cause.

The scientists found greenhouse gases in the atmosphere as a result of human activity have increased the risk of extreme rainfall in the southern part of the country by about 25 per cent.

Scientists show that devastating increases in extreme rainfall over the last 30 years fit in with global temperature rise caused by greenhouse gases.

More extreme rainfall events are also expected in the future.

Conflict is also associated with extreme rainfall, particularly in societies dependent on agriculture.

Consider the range of natural variability — for drought and for extreme rainfall events.

Their literature review highlights the complicated relationship between short duration extreme rainfall and atmospheric temperature.

In presentations we have given and in the papers in prep right now, we call into question the traditional ways in which we estimate extreme rainfall frequency, probability and intensity.

But while extreme rainfall has been rising, little was known about the mechanisms causing it.

The recent extreme rainfall has left many asking, is this weather linked to climate change?

The water holding capacity of the atmosphere increases by about 7 % per °C of warming, which in turn raises the expectation of more intense extreme rainfall events.

The shape of the annual cycle of extreme rainfall varies between simulations.

Researchers predict that the country could see a 400 - percent increase in extreme rainfall risks by the end of the century.

It's worth posting that map of extreme rainfall events again.

Already, there's evidence that extreme rainfall events are on the rise and are expected to worsen in the coming years.

That's the warning from an analysis of more than 600 dams, many of which have brought more extreme rainfall.

The team found that warming had increased the chances of such extreme rainfall from a storm like Desmond in the region by about 40 percent, with a full range of between 5 and 80 percent.

There is a wet bias in CRCM5 extreme rainfall on the west coast throughout the year and in winter rainfall elsewhere.

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.

The year 2010 had seen extreme rainfall cause devastating flooding in Pakistan, killing hundreds of people and prompting an outbreak of cholera.

[37] These changes can dramatically amplify extreme weather events, such as extreme rainfall, during the summer.

Benestad, R. E. Novel methods for inferring future changes in extreme rainfall over northern Europe.

Texas isn't exaggerating when claiming a large number of the most extreme rainfalls in the world.

We saw the impact of extreme rainfall during Harvey.

But then when the speaker got to the final conclusion, it was essentially a tiny correlation between extreme rainfall events in a few very particular places with particular large scale atmospheric flows upstream.

That was Robert Sandford, explaining the science behind extreme rainfall events due to climate change.

[7][8] A warmer atmosphere holds more water vapor, feeding more precipitation into all storms including hurricanes, significantly amplifying extreme rainfall and increasing the risk of flooding.

In concert with the results for increased extremes of intense precipitation, even if the wind strength of storms in a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensity.

In his five or so decades as a farmer, Gaesser can not remember a period with so much extreme rainfall.

The point here is that you can tie Harvey's extreme rainfall directly to the ocean heat it consumed.

Especially to the west and east the Australian coastal waters have a rather large (1 - 2C) positive temperature anomaly, favouring the formation of depressions that recently even brought extreme rainfalls in the bone dry inland deserts of the Northern Territory and South Australia.

«There is overwhelming scientific evidence that the characteristics of extreme rainfall under climate change are going to be different,» said Praveen Kumar, a professor of civil and environmental engineering (CEE) at Illinois and project leader on the study.

While atmospheric rivers vary in size and shape, those containing large amounts of water vapor, strong winds, and that stall over watersheds vulnerable to flooding, can create extreme rainfall and floods.

December 2011: Two days of extreme rainfall deluge New Zealand's Southern Island, producing landslides in what scientists call a 1 - in -500-year-event.

This December is around 5C warmer than normal and physics tells us that 24 hour extreme rainfall increases by 7 % per degree.

Other parts of South England and Wales also experienced extreme rainfall amounts during these three months, and as a consequence, large areas were flooded, some more than once during that period.

Science has attributed heavy rain to climate change for decades, but now we can analyze the role of climate change in individual extreme rainfall events.

«[W] e can not assess if short - term extreme rainfall events — e.g. during single days — have become more common recently.

A warmer ocean and the air above were able to inject greater quantities of moisture into the storm leading to intensification of already extreme rainfall.

Formed by a deep incision left by the WAIMEA RIVER and extreme rainfall runoff from the island's central peak, MOUNT WAI`ALE «ALE (one of the wettest places on Earth), WAIMEA CANYON is an awe - inspiring marvel.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program found that if emission rates continue unchanged the U.S. is likely to experience stronger coastal storm surges and more frequent extreme rainfall events.