Sentences with phrase «future changes in rainfall»

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This study looked at genetic (varieties) and management (row spacing and nitrogen) options to minimise the impact of climate change, using rain - out shelters to control rainfall; the results provided a platform to model wheat production in future climates.

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

The indications of climate change are all around us today but now researchers have revealed for the first time when and where the first clear signs of global warming appeared in the temperature record and where those signals are likely to be clearly seen in extreme rainfall events in the near future.

The findings from researchers at the University of Miami (UM) Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science provide new evidence that climate change in the tropical Pacific will result in changes in rainfall patterns in the region and amplify warming near the equator in the future.

Wet tropical forests, like this one on the Osa Peninsula in southwestern Costa Rica, are among the most productive ecosystems on earth, and new research points to the importance of both temperature and rainfall on future plant growth as the climate changes.

A group of researchers from Germany has taken to investigating the potential changes in extreme rainfall patterns across the UK as a result of future global warming and has found that in some regions, the time of year when we see the heaviest rainfall is set to shift.

Euresia Review: How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world?

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Even if rainfall amounts don't change in the future, drought and wildfire severity likely will because warmer temperatures are more efficient at evaporating what little moisture does fall.

The relationship between SSTs and spatial gradients in changes in (extreme) precipitation is an important finding for analysing necessary measures to anticipate future changes in the spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall in the country.

These factors point to a need for planners to account for such rainfall events as housing and infrastructure development occurs in this region, and for the possibility that the intensity and frequency of such events might change in the future as the climate continues to warm.

The Hulme et al. (2001) study, which reviews observed (1900 — 2000) and possible future (2000 — 2100) continent - wide changes in temperature and rainfall over Africa, is also not ignored by the IPCC, contrary to the assertion of the petitioner.

Their work, published in the journal Reviews of Geophysics, summarizes current research on the analysis of future changes to the intensity, duration and frequency of short - duration extreme rainfall.

Explains meteorologist Greg Holland of the National Center for Atmospheric Research: «I have no equivocation in saying that all heavy rainfall events, including this one, have an element of climate change in them, and the level of that contribution will increase in the future.»

BBD If a book is written that uses models to forecast future conditions in the UK, but those same models have been demonstrated to not be able to even reasonably accurately predict future rainfall at any specific location, what good is the analysis in the book that describes different conditions based on changes in rainfall?

Publishing in the Reviews of Geophysics, Westra et al (2014) summarize the current state of research in the analysis of future changes to the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme rainfall.

The report says there is no change to the conclusion that heavy rainfall events have increased in the past, but there is greater confidence now that these will increase in the future.

Firstly, there is uncertainty about the future levels of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change [34] and considerable uncertainty in modeling how this will affect other aspects of climate such as local rainfall or temperatures.

While it is impossible at this point in time to know how much the August 2016 rainfall was affected by climate change, it is clear that these events will be more common in the future.

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Ecosystem responses to past rainfall variability in the Sahel are potentially useful as an analogue of future climate change impacts, in the light of projections that extreme drought - affected terrestrial areas will increase from 1 % to about 30 % globally by the 2090s (Burke et al., 2006).

Moreover, unless something is done, the current suffering offers a grim foretaste of the future — temperatures in East Africa are going to rise and rainfall patterns will change, making a bad situation worse.

If substantial areas of the Amazon are in a climate regime close to the savanna - rainfall threshold, which diverse evidence suggests they are, then there may be a vegetation shift if rainfall consistently decreases in the future due to climate change.

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Stanford University say their comprehensive map of the region's climate 21,000 years ago is helping them test and improve climate models that can predict how rainfall patterns might change in the future.

[13] And an increase in rainfall rates is one of the more confident predictions of the effects of future climate change on tropical cyclones.

Scientists expect rainfall extremes to change in Europe under future climate conditions responding to changes in large - scale atmospheric circulation driven by global warming.