Sentences with phrase «high rainfall events»

If this can be achieved it should provide environmental benefits across the city and contribute to green infrastructure, particularly as climate change impacts like urban heating and high rainfall events increase.

«The starting point for understanding risk of high rainfall events is always a comprehensive analysis of previous records.

Not exact matches

Growing scarcity In addition to a growing scarcity of natural resources such as land, water and biodiversity «global agriculture will have to cope with the effects of climate change, notably higher temperatures, greater rainfall variability and more frequent extreme weather events such as floods and droughts,» Diouf warned.

«Tasmania would have been somewhat shielded from the warmer, drier climate because of its higher rainfall but it appears that this population was also affected by the El Niño event before starting to recover.»

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

We have fairly high confidence that we observe the history of Heinrich events (huge discharges of ice - rafted debris from the Laurentide ice sheet through Hudson Bay that are roughly coincident with large southern warming, southward shift of the intertropical convergence zone, extensive sea ice in the north Atlantic, reduced monsoonal rainfall in at least some parts of Asia, and other changes), and also cold phases of the Dansgaard / Oeschger oscillations that lack Heinrich layers and are characterized by muted versions of the other climate anomalies I just mentioned.

Also I published a paper about a rainfall event I found on March, 1960 in the Northeast of Brazil that reported in the core rainfall near 20 times higher than the typical value.

Storms and extreme rainfall events have always happened, but with the added heat in the atmosphere and oceans due to greenhouse gas emissions, storms now occur with increasing accumulated energy and higher moisture loading.

Lenderink, G., E. van Meijgaard en F. Selten (2009), Intense coastal rainfall in the Netherlands in response to high sea surface temperatures: analysis of the event of August 2006 from the perspective of a changing climate; Clim.

There wasn't much impact on daily peak river levels, since this is about sustained rather than intense rainfall, but 100 - year highs in monthly averaged river levels became about 80 - year events.

However, the report does say it is very likely that there will be more intense precipitation events over many areas, and that peak winds and rainfall rates from hurricanes are also likely to be higher.

In particular, in the European Mediterranean region, increases in the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflower).

«Climate change means that when we do have an event like Harvey, the rainfall amounts are likely to be higher than they would have been otherwise,» UN spokeswoman Clare Nullis said at a conference.

Masters's column then delves into specific events from around the globe: extremely low Arctic ice and rapid melting in Greenland; a radical shift from El Nino to La Nina; an Amazonian drought; a bizarre period for tropical cyclones and monsoons; floods, heat waves, record rainfalls across the world; the strongest non-coastal storm in U.S. history; and a long list of countries that set record high temperatures.

Such high SSTs are associated with most ENSO events, and it is probably SSTs in these regions, rather than the Pacific ENSO (Nicholson and Kim, 1997), that have the largest influence on east African rainfall.

The storm fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.

Published in the journal Hydrological Sciences, the study looks at data sets from 1884 to 2013 and found an upward trend in reported flooding, with flood events appearing more frequently towards the end of the 20th century, peaking in 2012 when annual rainfall was the second highest in over 100 years.

Moreover, rising global average temperatures lead to longer pollen seasons in many places and — when combined with stronger rainfall events, flooding, and higher humidity — create the perfect environment for mold to flourish.

Because of the substantial under - catch of precipitation gauges during solid precipitation, frequent light rainfall events, or windy conditions, the true precipitation in the Arctic is more than 50 % higher than the measured values (Førland and Hanssen - Bauer, 2000).