Sentences with phrase «high rainfall rates»

We also conclude that it is likely that climate warming will cause Atlantic hurricanes in the coming century have higher rainfall rates than present - day hurricanes, and medium confidence that they will be more intense (higher peak winds and lower central pressures) on average.

Not exact matches

The rainy seasons have higher malaria rates, but are also related to a variety of bacterial and viral infections that have seasonal and rainfall related rates.

Then the silica rain — which falls at a rate 10 times higher than rainfall in a hurricane on Earth today — would collect onto the moon, helping it grow.

Similar negative effects occur with worsening air pollution — higher levels of ground - level ozone smog and other pollutants that increase with warmer temperatures have been directly linked with increased rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease — food production and safety — warmer temperatures and varying rainfall patterns mess up staple crop yields and aid the migration and breeding of pests that can devastate crops — flooding — as rising sea levels make coastal areas and densely - populated river deltas more susceptible to storm surges and flooding that result from severe weather — and wildfires, which can be ancillary to increased heat waves and are also responsible for poor air quality (not to mention burning people's homes and crops).

The author connects unrelated issues about trees, conflates what we know about trees from different latitudes, and fails to convey the main point: tropical trees keep climate cool locally, help keep rainfall rates high, and have innumerable non-climate benefits including maintaining habitat and supporting biodiversity.

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

The steady increase in global temperatures, including average temperatures in Australia, means that even when rainfall is at or near the historical average, conditions are drier than before because evaporation rates are higher.

The colour field underneath the wind arrows shows the precipitation rate on a scale from 0 to 20 mm per hour, noting that peaks in rainfall intensity (which may have been far higher than 20 mm / hr at times in localised regions within the Hurricane circulation), are not resolved in this animation.

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.

With higher CO2 levels, higher temps and more rainfall, plants could grow at a faster rate than today.

The map (above) shows predicted changes in the annual number of days of extreme rainfall (defined as rainfall totals in excess of the historic 98th percentile) across the United States by 2041 - 2070 as compared to 1971 - 2000 if greenhouse gases continue to increase at a high rate (A2 scenario).

Two statements during the presentation drew my interest: 1) geographical regions of high net release of CO2 were claimed in the talk to be regions with very little combustion of fossil fuels, and 2) increasing rainfall combined with increasing temperatures were suggested to increase decomposition rates of organic matter in the soil.

Secondly, with warmer air temperatures, rainfall rates near the heart of the hurricanes of 2100 will be 20 % higher - increasing the potential for flooding.

Perhaps this could be directly related to cloud seeding, with the dust causing a higher rate of rainfall formation than is otherwise normal.

WHen rainfall rate is less than this rate it infiltrates (until the soil is saturated), when railfall rate is higher then some runs off, or all of it runs off if the soil is saturated.