Sentences with phrase «higher mean precipitation»

A reduction in the precipitation area implies higher mean precipitation intensity, and may be linked to changes in the atmospheric overturning presented above.

Not exact matches

Empirical studies of forests across Alaska show that North America's white spruce require at least 280 millimeters (11 inches) of precipitation each year, a number that rises if mean summer temperatures are higher than 15.5 degrees Celsius (roughly 60 degrees Fahrenheit).

Widening of the tropics would also probably be associated with poleward movement of major extratropical climate zones due to changes in the position of jet streams, storm tracks, mean position of high and low pressure systems, and associated precipitation regimes.

Maps of median TAE averaged across 23 model simulations for (a) and (b) mean surface air temperature, (c) and (d) highest daily maximum temperature, (e) and (f) lowest daily minimum temperature, (g) and (h) total precipitation, and (i), (j) maximum 1 - d precipitation for (a), (c), (e), (g) and (i) June - August and (b), (d), (f), (h) and (j) December - February.

Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.

Greater numbers of plant species in ruderal based environments were found in equatorial areas where the level of water (represented by mean annual precipitation) related variables are high, whereas competitive and stress tolerant based plant environments were found in locations where energy (represented by mean annual temperature) are expressed with greater weight acting on the distribution.

Campbell River also ranked poorly on our list for both its high number of wet days and overall amount of precipitation, although its fair temperatures meant it had few days below zero.

In that case (along with greater precipitation, and the precipitation belt moving to higher latitudes), there could be more snow in the winter & greater melting in the summer (in higher latitudes), while I'd think the lower latitudes (with less precip) and the local mean temp being higher, would melt the glaciers faster, without adequate snowfall & low winter temps to slow this glacial decrease.

Although WUE was positively correlated with CUE, NPP, and LAI, average baseline WUE was highest in grassland systems, which also had lower rates of mean annual NPP, precipitation, and LAI.

«Since the AR4, there is some new limited direct evidence for an anthropogenic influence on extreme precipitation, including a formal detection and attribution study and indirect evidence that extreme precipitation would be expected to have increased given the evidence of anthropogenic influence on various aspects of the global hydrological cycle and high confidence that the intensity of extreme precipitation events will increase with warming, at a rate well exceeding that of the mean precipitation..

Decreases in precipitation over many subtropical areas are evident in the multi-model ensemble mean, and consistency in the sign of change among the models is often high (Wang, 2005), particularly in some regions like the tropical Central American - Caribbean (Neelin et al., 2006).

Results show that higher - resolution models significantly improve the simulation of mean precipitation, the distribution of precipitation, and spatial patterns, intensity and seasonality of precipitation extremes.

For regional climate predictability, the added value of RCMs should come from better resolving the relationship between mean (temperature) trends and key indicators that are supposedly better represented in the high resolution projections utilizing additional local information, such as temperature or precipitation extremes.

Direct comparisons with ponderosa pine forests are not possible because this study was conducted within a higher - elevation mixed - conifer forest that had higher initial basal areas and higher mean annual precipitation.

In the coming century, increasing atmospheric GHG concentration and associated warming could have important hydrological and water resource consequences in the Southwest resulting from mean state changes due to higher evaporation and decreased precipitation [73 — 75].

These figures illustrate the way the probability distribution of future global mean temperature change under a high - emissions scenario is linked to different potential changes in temperature and precipitation at a county - level.

We've had some warm weather but precipitation and cloud cover is way up meaning highs were about normal, more 90 degree highs than June 2007 thru June 2010 but again nothing above 93.

Obtain high - resolution climatologies of maximum, minimum, and mean temperature and precipitation in British Columbia, on a monthly and annual basis at 30 arc second (~ 1 km) resolution (developed using PRISM).

Accordingly, in our estimate of the global circulation power we use global mean precipitation P which characterizes both regions where the air is ascending and precipitation is high and regions where the air descends and precipitation is low.

Combined with diminished precipitation, high temperatures in California are causing soils and vegetation to lose moisture earlier in the spring and stay dry later in the fall, meaning the landscape is flammable for more of the year.

According to data from the Salekhard weather station the recent mean air summer temperature was 0.9 °C higher and winter was 1.2 °C higher than between 1883 and 1919; and the amount of precipitation also increased by 32 mm in summer and by 46 mm in winter.

The temperature and precipitation changes from the high - end models were scaled to a global mean warming of 4 °C.

Temperature and precipitation changes from the high - end model simulations (21 runs) were scaled to a global mean warming of 4 °C.

The patterns and magnitude of the precipitation changes (scaled to a global mean warming of 4 °C) are similar in the high - end and non-high-end models, although the reductions in precipitation tend to be slightly greater in the high - end models.

These reconstructions also suggest that mean annual precipitation was up to 50 mm higher than today.