Sentences with phrase «how rainfall trends»

By looking at this more closely, they hoped to discover how rainfall trends might be linked to the Sahara's growth over time, according to Thomas.

Not exact matches

While the trends associated with climate change — hotter days, heavier rainfall and a greater number of extreme weather events — are present in the models, for many crops in Africa and Asia it's not clear how extensive the effects will be.
Such trends mean scientists and policymakers will have to factor in how synthetic climate forcers other than greenhouse gases will change temperature, rainfall and weather extremes.
John, You say that the BoM map of the trend in rainfall in southeastern Australia since 1970 «demonstrates how much drier the climate has become over the period in which warming has been observed.»
These differences between projected and observed trends in rainfall seem to raise serious questions about the ability of the models to predict changes in rainfall — though Iâ $ ™ d be interested in CSIRO views, especially on whether it is appropriate to use successive 11 - year averages as measures of outcome and, if it is not, how the relationship between projections and outcome should be monitored.
This comment on ENSO link to rainfall and drought reminded me of a recent WUWT post where they point out how sea levels have a negative trend over (gasp) the last 2 years.
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