Sentences with phrase «if precipitation increases»

Elevated CO2 is projected to facilitate forest expansion and greater carbon storage in California if precipitation increases (Bachelet et al., 2001).

If precipitation increases then rivers & their peoples will be OK.

If precipitation increases over the tropical oceans, more than evaporation increases, the sea water salinity could decrease.

Not exact matches

«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.»

«If we look at precipitation events over the long term, there is an increase in frequency of extremes.

Even if vineyards relocate northward in search of cooler climes, increased precipitation in areas like the Pacific Northwest could make crops more susceptible to fungus and rot.

Because the models predict little average precipitation increase nationwide over this period, the product of CAPE and precipitation gives about a 12 percent rise in cloud - to - ground lightning strikes per degree in the contiguous U.S., or a roughly 50 percent increase by 2100 if Earth sees the expected 4 - degree Celsius increase (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature.

El Niño will create a mixed bag in terms of precipitation too, with increased odds that Southern California will see more precipitation this year — though it's too early to know if that will come in the form of snow — while the Pacific Northwest is likely to be drier and could see its drought deepen.

If local temperature increases are limited to 1 to 3 °C, some regions, such as Northern Europe and North America, could benefit from a longer growing season, more precipitation, and less frost, depending on the crop.

The likelihood of precipitation making an appearance during your holiday starts off at 5 % on May 1st and gradually increases up to 38 % by May 31st, making the first week of May the best time to visit if you want to avoid any wet weather.

The likelihood of precipitation making an appearance slightly increases as the month develops, starting off at 78 % on July 1st and rising up to 89 % by July 31st, making the start of the month the best time to visit if you want to keep rainfall to a minimum.

As for precipitation, [Moelg and Hardy, 2004] tentatively conclude that the glacier might be in positive mass balance if snowfall were increased to its 1880 maximum rate, even if temperature is held fixed at its present value.

Even if increased precipitation would thicken the ice - sheet at its middle, the speeding up of the output glaciers would dump more freshwater into the North Atlantic.

If we take the largest decline (1,500 km3 / year) in Arctic ice cover of the last decades together with the increase in precipitation over the Arctic (500 km3 / year), then this is completely dwarfed by the 115,000 - 230,000 km3 in one year which is supposed to have slowed down (not even stopped) the THC.

If tropical glaciers continue to retreat despite an increase in precipitation, that will constitute a powerful case for the role of air temperature.

Also, if radiative limits are preventing tropical precipitation, wouldn't that just increase the height of the convection cell, if it can't radiate heat as efficiently?

If you were in a situation where there was initially more precipitation than radiative cooling could handle, then the atmosphere could just warm up until the radiative cooling increased — though then you'd have to worry about how much the warming affects precipitation, etc..

One might think that more precipitation would then lead to more snowfall in regions such as the Sierra Nevada, which gets air masses saturated with oceanic moisture, but with the increasing temperatures at altitude, the precipitation is as rain, or if as snow, doesn't last as long.

«If there are no while zones on top of the volcanoes, the solar radiation is absorbed, which generated an increase in temperature and local climate change, like desertification or the inhibition of pluvial precipitation,» Degaldo told SciDev.net in an interview.

Scientists expect more intense storms to occur in the Midwest throughout the year, and more precipitation to fall in winter and spring.4 If our carbon emissions continue to rise at current rates, spring rainfall in Jefferson City is projected to increase 25 percent or more by the end of this century.9, 10

Even in areas where precipitation does not decrease, these increases in surface evaporation and loss of water from plants lead to more rapid drying of soils if the effects of higher temperatures are not offset by other changes (such as reduced wind speed or increased humidity).5 As soil dries out, a larger proportion of the incoming heat from the sun goes into heating the soil and adjacent air rather than evaporating its moisture, resulting in hotter summers under drier climatic conditions.6

Such precipitation whiplash is already occurring to some extent and will be increasing in California this century if nothing is done to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

If you have a 1.2 percent increase in cloud formation and precipitation, it offsets a 100 percent increase of CO2 in the atmosphere.»

If the AMO continues its quasi-cyclic behavior the US SW temperature should remain stable and the precipitation should significantly increase during the next few decades.

They found that the mean and standard deviation of flood damage are projected to increase by more than 140 % if the mean and standard deviation of annual precipitation increase by 13.5 %.

Seems if the dimming slows then natural precipitation may increase and contribute to cooling?

Only if you assume that there is not a corresponding increase in cloud condensation and precipitation can you ignore that: it implies that a 3.7 W / m ^ 2 increase produces a lower temp increase at 289K than at 288K.

Annual precipitation increases of about 15 % to 30 % are projected for the region by late this century if global emissions continue to increase (A2).

This would be true if the only thing changing was the precipitation rate, but this is obviously not the case because the driver of all these precipitation changes is the expected significant increase in air temperature.

Because the models predict little average precipitation increase nationwide over this period, the product of CAPE and precipitation gives about a 12 percent rise in cloud - to - ground lightning strikes per degree in the contiguous U.S., or a roughly 50 percent increase by 2100 if Earth sees the expected 4 - degree Celsius increase (7 degrees Fahrenheit) in temperature.

For example, decision makers already have a good idea what will happen if no action to reduce CO2 emissions is taken: the «business as usual» scenario shows significant increases in temperature and changes in precipitation, leading to serious impacts over the next century.

The increased amount of water vapor not only contributes to extra warming, but may feed heavy precipitation events and act as fuel for potential hurricanes, if other conditions are right.

Our analyses show that California has historically been more likely to experience drought if precipitation deficits co-occur with warm conditions and that such confluences have increased in recent decades, leading to increases in the fraction of low - precipitation years that yield drought.

(In the real - world, of course, if warming leads to more water vapor and if that leads to more daytime clouds, possibly more precipitation and thunderstorms and so on, the additional warming will be reduced, but, there will still be some warming with increased GHGs).

In concert with the results for increased extremes of intense precipitation, even if the wind strength of storms in a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensity.

«Future warming and increased runoff from precipitation mean that nutrient inputs to many lakes must be reduced if they are to maintain the same ecological state they are in today,» the researchers wrote.

Will (and Crichton) would have been on firmer ground if they had used the example of Norwegian glaciers, which almost uniquely in the world have been growing because the increase of precipitation during winter is larger than the increase in melting in summer.

Even if global warming wasn't a hoax a rise of sea levels still is impossible to predict — e.g., some scientists believe that with global warming there would be increased precipitation and it could fall as snow on a frozen Antarctica and stay there resulting in falling sea levels.

It should also be possible to get less snow with the same amount of precipitation if e.g. the day - night variation increases, in that snow melts during the heat of the day and even if the cold of the night averages out the temperature, the added cold can not remake the lost snow.

If the emissions that cause global warming continue unabated, scientists expect the amount of rainfall during the heaviest precipitation events across country to increase more than 40 percent by the end of the century.

«Warming will increase evaporation so the soils will be drier, even if the precipitation remains the same.»