Sentences with phrase «high rainfall totals»

That is, after all, one way to get high rainfall totals.

The use of very large atmospheric model ensemble to assess potential anthropogenic influence on the UK summer 2012 high rainfall totals, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94, No 9.

«Someone is going to get those very high rainfall totals,» he said.

HIGHEST RAINFALL TOTALS BY STATE: Andrews AFB, Md.: 15.3» (unconfirmed) Easton, Md.: 12.55» Wildwood Crest, N.J.: 11.67» Virginia Beach, Va.: 9.57» Milford, Del.: 9.55» Maysville, W.Va.: 7.75» Hanover, Pa.: 7.61» Washington, D.C.: 5.44» Lorain, Ohio: 4.29» East Milton, Mass.: 3.03» Jaffrey, N.H.: 3.83» Niagara Falls, N.Y.: 3.02»

Human activity has caused a significant long - term cooling trend -LRB--0.35 °C between the 1940s and 2009) and higher rainfall totals via the mechanism of «agricultural intensification» — a photosynthesis - associated increase in the air's water vapor or humidity levels due to an explosive (400 %) increase in crop production and yield since the 1940s.

Even the Daily Mail Online said: «Prof Collins made clear that he believes it is likely global warming could lead to higher rainfall totals, because a warmer atmosphere can hold more water.»

Not exact matches

The seven - day rainfall total from Harvey was as much as 40 percent higher than rainfall from a similar storm would have been decades ago, before human activity caused atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to spike, according to a study published yesterday in Geophysical Research Letters.

27th Kuri Bay in the Kimberley has recorded 1339.5 mm of rainfall so far this month (1 to 27 January 2011) which is the highest monthly rainfall total ever recorded in Western Australia.

«The actual monthly total was probably higher,» said Mr Cook «given that the rainfall gauge overflowed before the observer was able to check the total on the very heavy rainfall day of the 11th, when 388.6 mm was observed.»

Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

It was the duration of rainfall, because of the slowing, stalling, slow reversal before the storm finally left the area that accounts for the high precipitation totals.

«Human - caused, heat - trapping greenhouses played a «measurable» role in the colossal rainfall totals, which were fueled by high humidity and a stalled storm system above the Gulf Coast,» van der Wiel said in the report, according to USA 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).

«Rainfall Records Highest annual total: 3964.9 mm at Ballaghbeama Gap in 1960.

This persistence of very high latent heat flux is opposite to the seasonal trends of transpiration and evaporation in savannas, even with similar total rainfall (Saleska et al., 2003; da Rocha et al., 2009).

This is believable as higher temps would mean more arable land, more evaporation would mean more rainfall and we have seen over the last 50 years as CO2 has climbed that total biotic life on the planet has increased some 30 - 50 % according to NASA satellites measurements.