Sentences with phrase «future warmer climates»

One impetus for the study was to investigate how a future warmer climate would affect the demand of water, especially as more cities are seeking out climate mitigation and adaptation strategies.

Although there is as yet no convincing evidence in the observed record of changes in tropical cyclone behaviour, a synthesis of the recent model results indicates that, for the future warmer climate, tropical cyclones will show increased peak wind speed and increased mean and peak precipitation intensities.

Additionally, a southward shift of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is projected to occur in a 15 - member multi-model ensemble, due to changes in surface winds in a future warmer climate (Fyfe and Saenko, 2005).

Acknowledging the problems and benefits of using the Last Interglacial as an analogue for a future warming climate begs the question of whether there may be a more suitable analogue in the past.

Not exact matches

Although global warming may now be a serious concern, it is likely that long - term climate cycles will cause large ice sheets to return at some time in the distant future, and cataclysmic outburst floods will probably recur in this region.»

Rising sea levels caused by a warming climate threaten greater future storm damage to New York City, but the paths of stronger future storms may shift offshore, changing the coastal risk for the city, according to a team of climate scientists.

«New Eocene fossil data suggest climate models may underestimate future polar warming.»

In the interest of our future world, scientists must seek to understand the complexities of linked natural events and field observations that are revealed in the geologic record of past warmer climates.

The findings were not a total surprise, with future projections showing that even with moderate climate warming, air temperatures over the higher altitudes increase even more than at sea level, and that, on average, fewer winter storm systems will impact the state.

New University of Colorado Boulder - led research has established a causal link between climate warming and the localized extinction of a common Rocky Mountain flowering plant, a result that could serve as a herald of future population declines.

Although scientists aren't sure exactly how warming temperatures will manifest under climate change, Morgan said that «chances are good as it gets warmer we'll get more dry years in the future.»

About half of this near - term warming represents a «commitment» to future climate change arising from the inertia of the climate system response to current atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases.

The IPCC's climate report says that the most extreme scenarios of future warming are looking less likely — but this doesn't change the big picture

«Moreover, the latest developments in climate science lend greater urgency to the case for action: Effects on natural systems are already being observed and recent findings concerning the potential scope and magnitude of damages from future warming are increasingly worrisome,» the report says.

A new study takes aim at the mysterious relationship between clouds and climate, and it finds that a warmer planet could mean fewer clouds, which would mean an even more sultry future for the planet

«When confronted with the question whether or not global warming contributed to Sandy, many scientists would just throw their hands up and say, «We can not address the question of how hurricanes will behave in a future climate because the myriad factors affecting storm behaviors are too complex and impossible to simulate»,» Lau said.

His new book, New York 2140, explores the interplay of climate change and global finance on a warmer, wetter future world

«The result is not a surprise, but if you look at the global climate models that have been used to analyze what the planet looked like 20,000 years ago — the same models used to predict global warming in the future — they are doing, on average, a very good job reproducing how cold it was in Antarctica,» said first author Kurt Cuffey, a glaciologist at the University of California, Berkeley, and professor of geography and of earth and planetary sciences.

The two studies will help scientists to understand the natural variability of past climate and to predict tropical glaciers» response to future global warming.

Assistant professor Kathrin Rousk, Department of Biology, explains, «to aid in predicting the role of moss - associated N2 fixation in a warmer, future climate, we quantified N2 fixation throughout the snow - free period in subarctic tundra.

The calculations are in line with estimates from most climate models, proving that these models do a good job of estimating past climatic conditions and, very likely, future conditions in an era of climate change and global warming.

A warming climate makes for a brutal allergy season in the U.S., which may become even worse in future

The recent slowdown in global warming has brought into question the reliability of climate model projections of future temperature change and has led to a vigorous debate over whether this slowdown is the result of naturally occurring, internal variability or forcing external to Earth's climate system.

This may provide insight about what to expect in the future as Earth's climate continues to warm and oceans keep acidifying.

But to date, when climate modelers try to project future warming for the Arctic, the numbers are lower than expected; for reasons not yet fully understood, they don't reflect the region's accelerating warming.

Climate models, it says, «can neither confirm that global warming is occurring now, or predict future climate changes», and yet «have been used to frame the debate&Climate models, it says, «can neither confirm that global warming is occurring now, or predict future climate changes», and yet «have been used to frame the debate&climate changes», and yet «have been used to frame the debate».

«The only way we can accurately project future climate is to understand the responses of both plants and microbes to a warming climate.

Scientists are looking to strange sea life for records of climate's past — and forecasts of future warming

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.

A few of the main points of the third assessment report issued in 2001 include: An increasing body of observations gives a collective picture of a warming world and other changes in the climate system; emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosols due to human activities continue to alter the atmosphere in ways that are expected to affect the climate; confidence in the ability of models to project future climate has increased; and there is new and stronger evidence that most of the warming observed over the last 50 years is attributable to human activities.

Put bluntly: if Pakistan's climate warms in the future, rainfall will increase.

«Immediate action is required to develop a carbon - neutral or carbon - negative future or, alternatively, prepare adaptation strategies for the effects of a warmer climate,» said Dr Goodwin, Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate at Southclimate,» said Dr Goodwin, Lecturer in Oceanography and Climate at SouthClimate at Southampton.

That is allowing weather forecasters to push their predictions further into the future than ever before, while climate scientists are exploring how the MJO will behave in a warmer world.

Assisted migration The future doesn't look good for biocrust communities, and thus for the stability of desert soils, as we continue to careen toward a warmer climate.

In predicting how climate will affect irrigated crop yields in the future, the researchers also consider factors such as population and economic growth, as well as competing demands for water from various socioeconomic sectors, which are themselves projected to change as the climate warms.

Similar to climate manipulation plots near the Colorado River, half of these plots are warmed with infrared lamps to simulate the future.

Zeebe uses past climate episodes as analogs for the future, which suggest that so - called slow climate «feedbacks» can boost climate sensitivity and amplify warming.

This allowed us to simulate a future climate scenario, characterized by both warmer waters and ocean acidification», explains researcher Christian Alsterberg.

«We're saying, «If the future climate were here now, what would need to happen to the grid to adapt to that warmer world?»»

That may cause climate modelers to rethink future sea - level rise under a warming climate.

To investigate this, DeConto and Pollard developed a new ice sheet - climate model that includes «previously under - appreciated processes» that emphasize the importance of future atmospheric warming around Antarctica.

According to researchers studying this elusive mammal, sometimes classed as one of the «Shy 5,» in South Africa's Kalahari Desert, aardvarks prove to be highly susceptible to the warmer and drier climates that are predicted for the western parts of southern Africa, in the future.

A warming climate may rule out warmer venues such as Sochi or Vancouver in the future.

Only two of the 11 models used to project future warming in the most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) considered the effects of limited nitrogen on plant growth; none considered phosphorus, although one paper from 2014 subsequently pointed out this omission.

The implication: because average temperatures may warm by at least one degree C by 2030, «climate change could increase the incidences of African civil war by 55 percent by 2030, and this could result in about 390,000 additional battle deaths if future wars are as deadly as recent wars.»

«In a future with a warmer climate and more extreme weather, it will be more difficult for fish to survive,» he said.

Our research should provide clues to evaluate how differences in the variety and amount of organics in high - latitude zones, which are vulnerable to global warming, will affect cloud formation and the overall climate in the future.»

This may become a factor in population numbers in the future, given climate change predictions for the Pacific Northwest include warmer, wetter winters.

«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes as well as for projections of future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.

Till now, climate modellers» forecasts of future warming have resembled the famous bell curve, with the most likely result of doubling CO2 being a temperature increase of about 3 °C, and with declining probabilities on either side for a narrow range of higher and lower temperature rises (see Graph).