Sentences with phrase «global rainfall patterns»

A slowdown in circulation would affect many parts of the world by disrupting global rainfall patterns.

Research suggests that releasing aerosols could also help to bring back global rainfall patterns to their pre-industrial averages.

The activists say our influence on climate is evident in «altered rainfall patterns,» but in this they are at odds with their fellow - activists at the ill - fated Intergovernmental Panel, whose special report on extreme weather (2012) and whose fifth and most recent (2013) Assessment Report on the climate question find little or no evidence of a link between our industries and enterprises on the one hand and global rainfall patterns on the other.

The global treaty that headed off destruction of earth's protective ozone layer has also prevented major disruption of global rainfall patterns, even though that was not a motivation for the treaty, according to a new study...

, like screwing up global rainfall patterns.

The downsides are that this type of geoengineering could have lots of unpredictable side effects, like screwing up global rainfall patterns.

However, the simulations indicate that the sea - ice driven precipitation changes resemble the global rainfall patterns observed during that drought, leaving the possibility that Arctic sea - ice loss could have played a role in the recent drought.

Not exact matches

The drones can't come too soon for scientists who study the El Niño — Southern Oscillation, a set of shifting global temperature and rainfall patterns triggered by warm surface waters that slosh back and forth across the equatorial Pacific every few years.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

The reason is that global warming is likely to increase droughts and change rainfall patterns, so water availability becomes even more critical than before.

Since trends in convective rainfall are not easily detected in daily rainfall records, or well - simulated by global or regional climate models, the researchers created a new tool to assess the effects of climate change on rainfall patterns and trends in dryland areas.

Consequently, there are grave concerns that the rainfall patterns altered by climate change could trigger a forest decline on a global scale.

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.

The pilot study, published today in «Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,» sheds light on the climate system of a region whose rainfall patterns have a major impact on global climate.

Some of the global patterns that appear in the fire maps over time are the result of natural cycles of rainfall, dryness, and lightning.

It may do something disconcerting to the patterns of global rainfall...

But the issue is not really the global mean temperature (even though that is what is usually plotted), but the distribution of temperature change, rainfall patterns, winds, sea ice etc..

«Researchers working at the Australian National University Research School of Earth Sciences have discovered century - scale patterns in Pacific rainfall and temperature, and linked them with global climate changes in the past 2000 years.

Climate change alters our food production dramatically — increases in global temperatures lead to unstable rainfall patterns, reduction in the soil's ability to retain moisture, and in the end: awful harvests.

«These findings show that climate change can have dramatic effects on human societies and highlight the necessity to understand the effect of global warming on rainfall patterns in China and all over the world,» the authors write.

It finds that the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI)-- the basic tool for forecasting variations in global and oceanic patterns — and rainfall fluctuations recorded over the last decade are similar to those in 1914 -1924.

Drought is expected to occur 20 - 40 percent more often in most of Australia over the coming decades.6, 18 If our heat - trapping emissions continue to rise at high rates, 19 more severe droughts are projected for eastern Australia in the first half of this century.6, 17 And droughts may occur up to 40 percent more often in southeast Australia by 2070.2 Unless we act now to curb global warming emissions, most regions of the country are expected to suffer exceptionally low soil moisture at almost double the frequency that they do now.3 Studies suggest that climate change is helping to weaken the trade winds over the Pacific Ocean, with the potential to change rainfall patterns in the region, including Australia.20, 21,16,22

Namely that global agricultural irrigation is on the edge of sustainability in many regions, including areas of the US, and that even a slight change in rainfall patterns across the temperate mid-latitudes would have extremely serious consequences?

Members of the exclusive Asia Business Council (ABC) will hear David Griggs, a British climate expert, explain the threats posed to the region by global warming, including potentially drastic changes to Asian temperatures and rainfall patterns in the coming decades.

Though a 1 C rise in global temperature may not tell us anything about global climate - temperature is not really something which effect humans or life, whereas patterns rainfall, would be more relevant than average global temperature.

The report says global climate change is projected to produce «insufficient water supplies, shifting rainfall patterns, disruptions to agriculture, human migrations, more failing states, increased extremism, and even resource wars,» all of which pose an urgent threat that must be addressed in national security policy.

«The authors write that «the El Niño - Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a naturally occurring fluctuation,» whereby «on a timescale of two to seven years, the eastern equatorial Pacific climate varies between anomalously cold (La Niña) and warm (El Niño) conditions,» and that «these swings in temperature are accompanied by changes in the structure of the subsurface ocean, variability in the strength of the equatorial easterly trade winds, shifts in the position of atmospheric convection, and global teleconnection patterns associated with these changes that lead to variations in rainfall and weather patterns in many parts of the world,» which end up affecting «ecosystems, agriculture, freshwater supplies, hurricanes and other severe weather events worldwide.»»

The deforestation is accelerating global warming and could result in changing rainfall patterns across Europe, the U.S. Midwest and China, researchers said.

The region locks up more than 100 billion tons of carbon — more than 11 years» worth of total greenhouse gas emissions from human activities; plays an important role in global weather circulation patterns, including delivering rainfall to Central America, the United States, and southern South America; supports perhaps a third of terrestrial biodiversity; and is home to the bulk of the world's remaining indigenous people still living in traditional ways.

At about this time, a major change in the pattern of global rainfall occurred.

Because of global warming, rainfall patterns all around the planet change in an inhomogeneous way.

On undesirability, Hulme explains that although the approach would reduce global temperatures, it would also have significant side - effects, such as changing local rainfall patterns.

This eastward moving pulse of anomalous variations in rainfall, wind, sea surface temperatures, and clouds in the tropics typically recurs every 30 — 60 days, creating a pattern that profoundly influences global weather and climate systems, including monsoons, tropical cyclone activity, and El Niño — Southern Oscillation events.

In 70s & 80s, before encroachment of global warming in to climate studies, before starting analyzing rainfall data by clubbing the rainfall of different rain gauge stations, we used to homogenize the rain gauge stations in terms of rainfall patterns.

It asks both rich and poor countries to take action to curb the rise in global temperatures that is melting glaciers, raising sea levels and shifting rainfall patterns.

Currents in turn redistribute the heat the ocean carries and play a major role in shaping global temperature and rainfall patterns.

Models generally aren't very good at simulating changes in rainfall patterns to increasing GHG and resulting global warming.

These oceanic variations are associated with significant regional and global shifts in temperature and rainfall patterns that are evident in the observations.

That's doubly true when there is also emerging evidence — documented by Senior Weather Channel meteorologist Stu Ostro and others — that «global warming is increasing the atmosphere's thickness, leading to stronger and more persistent ridges of high pressure, which in turn are a key to temperature, rainfall, and snowfall extremes and topsy - turvy weather patterns like we've had in recent years.»

Over the last three decades, the number of record - breaking rainfall events globally has significantly increased, and the fingerprint of global warming has been documented in this pattern.