Sentences with phrase «how precipitation changes»

When analyzing how precipitation changes with time (e.g., in the Amazon or Congo regions) it is common to explore correlations with oceanic temperature anomalies.

Not exact matches

Climate change is likely to influence rainfall patterns in the Sierra Nevada as well as the amount of dust that makes its way into the atmosphere, so the hope is that a better understanding of how aerosols affect precipitation will help water managers in the future.

Precipitation patterns will change, affecting agriculture, though it's not certain how.

As Cobb explained, climate scientists still lack a good understanding of how climate change will alter precipitation patterns.

«If we can understand the mechanisms that caused these changes, then we can better predict how precipitation might change in the future.»

«We realized in 2013 that there was almost no data on the drought resistance of Amazonian canopy trees, and several recent droughts raised the question of how these trees would fare if climate change caused increased anomalies in precipitation.»

The gathering will draw approximately 400 representatives from other Arctic nations and interested foreign observers, and will give Obama a platform to highlight how changes in the Arctic will affect the rest of the world by accelerating warming, contributing to sea - level rise and changing precipitation patterns at lower altitudes.

These findings from University of Melbourne Scientists at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science, reported in Nature Climate Change, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condiChange, are the result of research looking at how Australian extremes in heat, drought, precipitation and ocean warming will change in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial condichange in a world 1.5 °C and 2 °C warmer than pre-industrial conditions.

To see how increased temperatures might contribute to the reductions in the river's flow that have been observed since 2000, Udall and Overpeck reviewed and synthesized 25 years of research about how climate and climate change have and will affect the region and how temperature and precipitation affect the river's flows.

He launched the Village Ecodynamics Project in 2001 to simulate how virtual Pueblo Indian families, living on computer - generated and geographically accurate landscapes, likely would have responded to changes in specific variables like precipitation, population size and resource depletion.

Scientists have carefully manipulated grasslands and forests to see how precipitation, carbon dioxide and temperature changes affect the biosphere, allowing them to forecast the future

In late June, the U.S. Government Accountability Office released an assessment of how the consequences of climate change, from rising temperatures and sea levels to changes in precipitation patterns and sea ice cover, might impact the military.

Ongoing climate change caused by human influences will alter the nature of how rain and snow falls; areas that are prone to dry conditions will receive their precipitation in narrower windows of time.

Acknowledging the effects of decreasing precipitation requires changes in how resource specialists approach climate change adaptation for water resources and forest management compared to preparing for increased temperature alone,» he said.

«Looking at changes in the number of dry days per year is a new way of understanding how climate change will affect us that goes beyond just annual or seasonal mean precipitation changes, and allows us to better adapt to and mitigate the impacts of local hydrological changes,» said Polade, a postdoctoral researcher who works with Scripps climate scientists Dan Cayan, David Pierce, Alexander Gershunov, and Michael Dettinger, who are co-authors of the study.

When the answer to that question is no, then the greenhouse gases are implicated as the culprit in changing how precipitation is falling worldwide.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

These models can then be mapped against climate forecasts to predict how phenology could shift in the future, painting a picture of landscapes in a world of warmer temperatures, altered precipitation and humidity, and changes in cloud cover.

«Some fungal outbreaks over the past couple of decades, such as Dothistroma needle blight, could likely have been anticipated by tracking how temperature and precipitation were changing together,» said Mahony, who has worked as a forester in British Columbia for 10 years and has witnessed the impacts of climate change on the ground.

A team of scientists from Vanderbilt and Stanford universities have created the first comprehensive map of the topsy - turvy climate of the period and are using it to test and improve the global climate models that have been developed to predict how precipitation patterns will change in the future.

«The general problem is, we know that climate change is occurring all over the globe, but what we don't know is how it will affect convective precipitation and associated runoff.»

The study could help narrow the range of uncertainty around how climate change is expected to alter California's precipitation patterns.

«We need to look at the changes in total precipitation and the timing and distribution of run - off patterns and see how that lines up with our current infrastructure,» Fahlund said in an email.

But beyond the increased amount of precipitation, Wehner adds, «this study more generally increases our understanding of how the various processes in extreme storms can change as the overall climate warms.»

This new research shows the first clear evidence of the long - term effects of pollution particles on cloud height and thickness, and how those changes both reduce precipitation in dry regions and increase precipitation in wet regions.

Daniel Swain and colleagues model how the frequency of these rapid, year - to - year transitions from extreme dry to wet conditions — which they dub «precipitation whiplash events» — may change in California's future as a consequence of man - made warming.

For this assessment, we primarily focus on just two: how climate change will affect Montana's temperature and precipitation in the future.

We evaluated how temperature and precipitation have historically changed, dating back to mid-20th century.

He has been an integral part of field campaigns that have changed the fundamental understanding of cloud and precipitation processes, including satellite studies that reveal how these processes are distributed globally, influencing the global climate.

Since joining UW in 1972, Houze has built a career on changing and improving how the community understands areas such as tropical meteorology, precipitation processes, and cloud dynamics.

Unlike some areas of the country, like the Southwest, climate models differ on how overall precipitation in the region might change as temperatures rise.

Given that the long - term trend in early spring snowpack is down, Climate Central recently examined how the type of precipitation is changing during the winter months nationwide.

To see how winter precipitation is changing, we looked at states that all see notable amounts of snow (sorry, Florida).

Rather, it sampled how sensitive they are to climate «variability» — defined in the study as monthly changes in temperature, precipitation or water availability, and cloud cover.

Malone has expertise in addressing the impact of glaciers on the water cycle, combined with how precipitation may change in quantity and timing, which come together in the Himalaya.

«When I look at the scenarios for future temperature and precipitation, I really see how dramatically our nation's climate could change.»

I am interpreting that to mean that there is a trend towards increasing annual 1 - day extreme precipitation — but I am not sure how to quantify that change.

For many water sheds, it would be valuable to be able to predict how the precipitation would change on each side of the range.

Our interactions with climate, for far more than 99 percent of history, ran in one direction: Precipitation or temperatures changed, ice sheets or coastlines or deserts advanced or retreated, and communities thrived, suffered, or adjusted how or where they lived.

Chamovitz says that in our modern environment — with its global warming, changes in precipitation, and shifting populations — we need to learn from plants about how they respond to their environment and then adapt.

So how is it possible then, as two new papers in Nature by Min et al. and Pall et al. (discussed here) have done, to attribute extreme precipitation and extreme UK floods to climate change?

Cannon, A.J., Sobie, S.R., Murdock, T.Q., (2015) Precipitation by Quantile Mapping: How well do methods preserve changes in quantiles and extremes?

As for how this could be — and in light of the findings of the references listed above — Rankl et al. reasoned that «considering increasing precipitation in winter and decreasing summer mean and minimum temperatures across the upper Indus Basin since the 1960s,» plus the «short response times of small glaciers,» it is only logical to conclude that these facts «suggest a shift from negative to balanced or positive mass budgets in the 1980s or 1990s or even earlier, induced by changing climatic conditions since the 1960s.»

Understanding how the global - mean precipitation rate will change in response to a climate forcing is a useful thing to know.

Wills et al. (2016) present an analysis of how circulation changes influence the global pattern of change in net precipitation (precipitation minus evaporation, P — E).

If somebody has actually directly shown to high precision how much evaporation and precipitation changes as a result of CO2 forcing then I think we all would have heard about it and the sensitivity debate would be over.

A new study, published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change and coauthored by Swain, provides new insight into how precipitation is changing in California and why that's going to be important to water managers and others.

But when it comes to how climate change is impacting precipitation, the story is more complicated.

Working from collision data from Transport Canada, weather data from Environment Canada and the output of regional climate models, they explored how future changes in precipitation could effect road safety in the Greater Vancouver area.

Scientists already know how climate change is impacting the Western United States — higher temperatures have translated to earlier spring snow melts, precipitation is falling more as rain instead of snow at higher elevations and there's reduced runoff and streamflow.