Sentences with phrase «in precipitation»

The climate projections predicted larger increases in temperature but smaller increases in precipitation over the 21st century compared with the 20th.

Rising temperatures may produce changes in precipitation patterns, storm severity, and sea level.

But changes in precipitation in the region — brought about by a combination of deforestation and warmer temperatures — are making things difficult to follow their traditional ways.

Huge numbers of people could die from starvation if a decrease in precipitation limits crop growth and from disease if coastal flooding leads to widespread water - borne illness.

However, the researchers could not find the same kind of link for trends in precipitation.

Another body of evidence suggests that human settlements, coastal and otherwise, are affected by climate change - related shifts in precipitation.

They used two separate tree ring data sets that had been previously published, one that indicated changes in precipitation over time, and the other temperature.

Most of the big historical droughts, most of that drought variability, is from variability in precipitation.

They examined the risks and this goes up with a 30 percent increase in precipitation from today's number.

Warming is linked to increases in precipitation extremes partly because of the physical effect of warming on atmospheric conditions.

It is the Mail who things that this is contradictory with increases in precipitation intensity and they appear to be unique in this belief.

Outside these areas, the sign and magnitude of projected changes varies between models, leading to substantial uncertainty in precipitation projections.

Growth of both features is a direct result of changes in precipitation at the surface.

Since then, some researchers have proposed the ice - making bug and others like it might be creating ice crystals in clouds that result in precipitation.

For more than 20 years, scientists have tossed around the idea that bacteria play a role in precipitation.

The Canadian model suggests a drop in precipitation of about 10 % and a drop in summer soil moisture content of 25 - 50 %.

The contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will increase, although there may be regional exceptions.

The increases in precipitation seen at higher latitudes are a result of increasing amounts of water vapour in the atmosphere.

A concise list of other metrics would be a good start, but I'm particularly interested in precipitation and ice sheets.

The researchers used a statistical technique to separate the long - term drying that appeared linked to climbing CO2 emissions, from yearly, natural ups and downs in precipitation.

While we have relatively high confidence for temperature extremes and some confidence in precipitation extremes, as yet we can say relatively little about storms, droughts and floods.

Its application to the C - grid reduces numerical errors in the vertical mass flux resulting in improvements in precipitation and other quantities.

Over the longer term, this kind of weather isn't totally unexpected — extreme swings in precipitation are becoming the new normal.

This would also reduce warming, but would not correct the increase in precipitation caused by global warming.

In general, researchers found wood frogs were more sensitive to changes in temperature or temperature interacting with precipitation than to changes in precipitation alone.

The contrast in precipitation between wet and dry regions and between wet and dry seasons will probably increase, although there may be regional exceptions.

The high - resolution simulations also reveal similarly localized features in precipitation (e.g., rain shadows) that are not resolved at the 45 km resolution.

The science is clear on increasing temperatures in the region, but how much changes in precipitation affect long - term trends remains to be seen.

Much of the high northern latitude regions are projected to receive increases in precipitation together with large temperature rises.

There are also discussions elsewhere about local land - use changes causing a reduction in precipitation.

Future changes in climate are expected to include additional warming, changes in precipitation patterns and amounts, sea - level rise, and changes in the frequency and intensity of some extreme events.

In that band, the climate models predicted a downward trend in precipitation, while observations show an upwards trend.

Added sea - level rise, shifts in precipitation, and jumps in local temperatures could lead to vast water and food shortages.

The resolution must be very course of curse and I don't know how they would allow for variability in precipitation.

One expected effect of climate change will be an increase in precipitation intensity: a larger proportion of rain will fall in a shorter amount of time than it has historically.

The largest increase in precipitation will occur over land in the tropics where the atmosphere is warming quickest.

The four months to March 2018 for SW Europe showed a large positive anomaly in precipitation.

The severe decline in precipitation in the African Sahel during the past 30 years seems to be related to both anthropogenic warming and aerosol pollutants.

Koster et al. (2004, 2006) and Guo et al. (2006) report on a new model intercomparison activity, the Global Land Atmosphere Coupling Experiment (GLACE), which compares among climate models differences in precipitation variability caused by interaction with soil moisture.

Mean differences between ERA - Interim and GPCC, between ERA5 and GPCC, and between ERA - Interim and ERA5 in precipitation rate (mm / day) for 2010 - 2017.

It also caused a decrease in precipitation by approximately 70 - 85 percent on land and a decrease of approximately 5 - 7 °C in seawater temperature at a 50 - m water depth, leading to mass extinction of life forms including dinosaurs and ammonites.