Sentences with phrase «if average rainfall»

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If rainfall becomes more irregular, as it's predicted to in the future, «then with the same average rainfall, the peatland can support less peat,» Cobb says.

So if you think of going in [a] warming direction of 2 degrees C compared to a cooling direction of 5 degrees C, one can say that we might be changing the Earth, you know, like 40 percent of the kind of change that went on between the Ice Age; and now are going back in time and so a 2 - degree change, which is about 4 degrees F on a global average, is going to be very significant in terms of change in the distribution of vegetation, change in the kind of climate zones in certain areas, wind patterns can change, so where rainfall happens is going to shift.

«If this rainfall change was caused simply by a warmer atmosphere holding more moisture, we would have expected an increase in the average rainfall when each system, organised or disorganised, occurs,» said Dr Tan

If you've never travelled to Kenya before, here are five things to note before you pack your bags: Time Difference: GMT +2 Hours Currency: Kenyan Shilling (KSh) Native Language: English / Kiswahili Weather: Average temperature of 21 °C during the hottest month (February) and 17 °C during the coldest (July) with 130 mm of average rainfall during the wettest month (Average temperature of 21 °C during the hottest month (February) and 17 °C during the coldest (July) with 130 mm of average rainfall during the wettest month (average rainfall during the wettest month (April).

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[1] CO2 absorbs IR, is the main GHG, human emissions are increasing its concentration in the atmosphere, raising temperatures globally; the second GHG, water vapor, exists in equilibrium with water / ice, would precipitate out if not for the CO2, so acts as a feedback; since the oceans cover so much of the planet, water is a large positive feedback; melting snow and ice as the atmosphere warms decreases albedo, another positive feedback, biased toward the poles, which gives larger polar warming than the global average; decreasing the temperature gradient from the equator to the poles is reducing the driving forces for the jetstream; the jetstream's meanders are increasing in amplitude and slowing, just like the lower Missippi River where its driving gradient decreases; the larger slower meanders increase the amplitude and duration of blocking highs, increasing drought and extreme temperatures — and 30,000 + Europeans and 5,000 plus Russians die, and the US corn crop, Russian wheat crop, and Aussie wildland fire protection fails — or extreme rainfall floods the US, France, Pakistan, Thailand (driving up prices for disk drives — hows that for unexpected adverse impacts from AGW?)

Never one to shirk a challenge, if raindrops hit 20mph & average global rainfall 900 mm, Bobl is only a triffling 5000 % out!!

So an obvious question presents itself: if the warming of about 0.4 degrees C in temperatures in southeastern Australia in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s caused the lower rainfall of the recent past, why was the warming of 0.4 degrees C in the 1950s and 1960s followed by a period of above - average rainfall?

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.

Could they produce sets of weather - maps that if somehow integrated over 30 years could produce a «supermap» showing actual climate change in terms of e.g average windspeeds, rainfall, cloud - cover, pressure and so on?

So the climate forecasters have not given up with southern Calif. getting above average rainfall this winter, even if it means it will happen in the late part of winter or into the spring

It would be more of a «miracle» if you got below average rainfall in March than above average rainfall.

Nevertheless, if El Niño comes on as strong as current projections seem to indicate, we can say with some level of confidence that coastal South American countries will see above average rainfall and flooding in the coming months, while countries on the other side of the ocean like Australia and Indonesia will likely see drought.

The BOM only provides an official average annual rainfall for the Murray Darling back to 1900, but if we consider individual locations, like Bourke, the previous really wet year is 1890.

In other words, if there were two storms with an identical structure over Boston, Massachusetts — one in 1955 and one in 2016 — the one in 2016 would, on average, produce 71 percent more rainfall.

So low temperatures might play a direct role in increasing flooding, even if they also decreased yearly average rainfall.

And if you are modeling it using synthetic rainfall storms as I said — be sure to set the infiltration to zero and model a range of storms from a modest freshet of an annual average recurrence interval to an unstoppable 10,000 year torrent.

Now we are at the point where the estimates are that even if there is above average rainfall in the coming year, catchment runoff will not increase because soils are so parched and aquifers so low.

If rainfall is OK why aren't the our dams doing much better — so we have from major NSW dams — Burrendong — 20 %; Copeton 20 %, Darling Weir 0 %; Keepit 21 %; Spilt Rock 7 %, Glenlyon 20 %; and that's the more «average» part of the MDB catchment.

Let's put it like this — if you average up the global rainfall and leave out the results under cloudy skies, will anyone take you seriously?