Sentences with phrase «how rainfall patterns»

Researchers at Vanderbilt University and Stanford University say their comprehensive map of the region's climate 21,000 years ago is helping them test and improve climate models that can predict how rainfall patterns might change in the future.

Authors of a recent study published in Science Advances used paleoclimate data to examine how rainfall patterns have responded to past climate shifts.

It was amazing to see how our results, when combined with work of many other research groups and compared to the newest generation of climate models, revealed a consistent story about how rainfall patterns were altered in the past.»

But there is huge uncertainty about how rainfall patterns will change.

Not exact matches

How temporal patterns in rainfall determine the geomorphology and carbon fluxes of tropical peatlands.

Weather forecasters use total rainfall figures to predict floods, and climatologists use the estimates to gauge how rain patterns are changing with climate change.

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.

Stirling co-author and Professor of Ecology, Alastair Jump, said: «By pinpointing specific traits in trees that determine how at risk they are from drought, we can better understand global patterns of tree mortality and how the world's forests are reacting to rising temperatures and reduced rainfall.

Scientists at the University of Sydney have analysed up to 22 years of long - term monitoring data on plants and animals in central Australia to project how changing rainfall and wildfire patterns, because of climate change, will influence desert wildlife.

Students will investigate how the frequency of storms and pattern of rainfall has changed over the past 100 years using graphs and data published by the UK MET Office.

How do organic aerosols from biomass burning, which you can see in the red dots, intersect with clouds and rainfall patterns?

Euresia Review: How will rainfall patterns across the tropical Indian and Pacific regions change in a future warming world?

My research looks at how much we can expect greenhouse gases to warm the earth this century and what that means for rainfall patterns worldwide.

Predictions about climate change are based on computer models that predict how phenomena such as temperature, rainfall patterns, and sea level will be affected.

In fragile contexts more than anywhere else, it is essential to realise how climate impacts — such as changing rainfall patterns, increased natural disasters and constraints to carbon - based economic growth — will have knock - on consequences on the national economy, trade, development, equity, governance and political stability.

Coupling strength (a nondimensional pattern similarity diagnostic defined in Koster et al., 2006) between summer rainfall and soil water in models assessed by the GLACE study (Guo et al., 2006), divided into how strongly soil water causes evaporation (including from plants) and how strongly this evaporation causes rainfall.

CSIRO's Dr Leon Rotstayn said that further research into how aerosols are influencing climate and rainfall patterns across Australia is critical to scientists» ability to more accurately predict the longer - term effects of climate change.