Sentences with phrase «in rainfall intensity»

The most direct risks are from flooding and landslides due to increases in rainfall intensity and from sea - level rise and storm surges in coastal areas.

A one per cent increase in rainfall intensity is estimated to result in soil loss from crop lands by 1.5 per cent.

To test the cause of this change in rainfall intensity, the researchers also simulated the region with several climate models.

The colour field underneath the wind arrows shows the precipitation rate on a scale from 0 to 20 mm per hour, noting that peaks in rainfall intensity (which may have been far higher than 20 mm / hr at times in localised regions within the Hurricane circulation), are not resolved in this animation.

Changes (increases) in rainfall intensity, temperatures, humidity and rate of snowmelt and have occurred in recent decades, due in part to increases in CO2 concentration.

The increase in rainfall intensity (shift in distribution of rain from more light events to fewer heavy events) as a consequence of global warming is a robust feature of GCMs.

Pilot study focusing on a region vulnerable to climate change Although the study highlights that long term changes in rainfall intensity are not always» man - made,» it does not necessarily mean that today's weather anomalies across the Indian Ocean rim countries and, in particular, their frequency, are not subject to human influence.

The analysis demonstrated a decline in rainfall intensity, despite an increase in total rainfall over the years.

Work by researchers from Taiwan and China found that the increase in rainfall intensity over the past three decades has been an entire order of magnitude greater...

Not exact matches

Mr Benn, when quizzed on why in certain areas flood defences were deployed late or not at all, said: «Even if those defences had been put in place, they would have been overtopped because of the intensity of the rainfall.

There were some increases in drought intensity as a result of increased heat but the weak reduction in rainfall meant only a slight increase in the frequency of droughts was detected.

A recent study from the Tel Aviv University School of Engineering used the signal strength from cell phone base stations to monitor the intensity of rainfall in those exact locations.

Overall, the chances of seeing a rainfall event as intense as Harvey have roughly tripled - somewhere between 1.5 and five times more likely - since the 1900s and the intensity of such an event has increased between 8 percent and 19 percent, according to the new study by researchers with World Weather Attribution, an international coalition of scientists that objectively and quantitatively assesses the possible role of climate change in individual extreme weather events.

Dry places are likely to get drier; rainfall is likely to arrive in fewer but more concentrated episodes; and extreme weather events such as tropical cyclones are likely to increase in intensity.

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

Combining the STORM model with analysis of the rainfall data set allowed the investigators to gain insights into decadal trends in monsoonal rainfall intensity under climate change.

Not just people in Ponorogo but all people across East Java, Central Java and West Java must stay alert because of the high rainfall intensity,» he said.

Furiously destructive Hurricanes are not the only indicator of AGW, in context of those Hurricanes cycles in the past, or rather in contrast with past high intensity hurricane seasons, we now experience all time high temperatures raging everywhere in the world, 1 meter a day rainfalls, severe droughts on 4 distinct continents, many glaciers going or gone everywhere, and a good chunk of the Arctic Ocean permanent ice melted.

It found that the number of storms later in the century is likely to drop, while intensity could slightly strengthen and the amount of rainfall around storms — as was found in an earlier analysis led by Dr. Knutson — would substantially rise.

Now that global warming is underway, how do government meteorologists and hydrologists use ensemble forecasting to account for increasing potentials for high intensity rainfall in fall and winter months?

The effects of circulation change in the North Atlantic are different to (potentially solar - driven) rainfall variability in the sub-tropics and are different again from the impacts of changing frequency and intensity in El Nino patterns.

Speaking of AGW and hurricanes and recent attempts to lenghthen the storm record with proxy data: I don't see how isotopic studies of the origin of rainfall waters in tree rings or sediment overwash studies can tell us accurately the past frequency or intensity of landfalling hurricanes.

Further complicating the use of these proxies is the fact that the deviation in oxygen - 18 ratios is affected by the amount of TC rainfall, the distance from the center of the cyclone at which the rain was produced, and the intensity of the cyclone — so I doubt these proxies alone will enable disentangling intensity and rainfall, tnough a large number of samples over an area could reveal information about the track and extent of the TC event.

Also, along with warmer weather, changes in the pattern and intensity of rainfall are already occuring.

The study revealed that the intensity of rainfall in wet spells during 1981 - 2011 was significantly higher than during 1950 - 1980.

States that climate models mostly continue to predict future decreases in global TC numbers, projected increases in the intensities of the strongest storms and increased rainfall rates

An even more complex question arises if one considers the fact that the greatest damage in Texas due to Harvey will most likely be associated with the rainfall rather than the intensity.

Such changes in the growing period are important, especially when viewed against possible changes in seasonality of rainfall, onset of rain days and intensity of rainfall, as indicated in Sections 9.2.1 and 9.3.1.

Impacts of cloud superparameterization on projected daily rainfall intensity climate changes in multiple versions of the Community Earth System Model

Using probability distributions of convergence / divergence and of rainfall intensity, thresholds were identified and used to classify extreme and background events in each dataset.

Across the three regions studied in this report, record - breaking temperatures are occurring more frequently, rainfall has increased in intensity in some places, while drought - prone regions are getting dryer.

«You've got both [the El Nino and the Indian Ocean Dipole] likely to work in the same direction for rainfall intensity,» Dr Jones said.

Small changes in solar intensity lead to changes in all these elements which change the distribution of heat and rainfall and the reflectance — and thus the energy budget — of the planet.

In presentations we have given and in the papers in prep right now, we call into question the traditional ways in which we estimate extreme rainfall frequency, probability and intensitIn presentations we have given and in the papers in prep right now, we call into question the traditional ways in which we estimate extreme rainfall frequency, probability and intensitin the papers in prep right now, we call into question the traditional ways in which we estimate extreme rainfall frequency, probability and intensitin prep right now, we call into question the traditional ways in which we estimate extreme rainfall frequency, probability and intensitin which we estimate extreme rainfall frequency, probability and intensity.

These factors point to a need for planners to account for such rainfall events as housing and infrastructure development occurs in this region, and for the possibility that the intensity and frequency of such events might change in the future as the climate continues to warm.

Over the coming decades, Atlantic hurricanes are likely to increase in strength as sea surface temperatures increase, fueling the intensity of storms in the Atlantic Ocean, and significantly increasing rainfall rates over those of present day storms.

Their work, published in the journal Reviews of Geophysics, summarizes current research on the analysis of future changes to the intensity, duration and frequency of short - duration extreme rainfall.

In particular, in the European Mediterranean region, increases in the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflowerIn particular, in the European Mediterranean region, increases in the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflowerin the European Mediterranean region, increases in the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflowerin the frequency of extreme climate events during specific crop development stages (e.g., heat stress during flowering period, rainy days during sowing time), together with higher rainfall intensity and longer dry spells, are likely to reduce the yield of summer crops (e.g., sunflower).

The intensity and position of the sub-tropical ridge (STR) have strong relationships with rainfall variability in southern Australia.

Human - induced changes in the IPWP have important implications for understanding and projecting related changes in monsoonal rainfall, and frequency or intensity of tropical storms, which have profound socioeconomic consequences.

Publishing in the Reviews of Geophysics, Westra et al (2014) summarize the current state of research in the analysis of future changes to the intensity, frequency and duration of extreme rainfall.

The climate change has visible signs in Pakistan, which include hotter summers, early cold spell, monsoon irregularity with untimely rainfall, increased rainfall over short period causing water logging, increased frequency and intensity of floods — especially recent floods, which destroyed livelihoods in Punjab and Sindh districts — very little rainfall in dry period, crop failure due to drought and salinity intrusion along the coastal region.

Researchers studying a rapid global warming event, around 56 million years ago, have shown evidence of major changes in the intensity of rainfall and flood events.

Over the past 1000 years we have seen a El Nino peak followed by centuries of high La Nina frequency and intensity — and higher rainfall in Australia — until the 20th century.

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378012001215 They showed a low bias in IPCC evaluations for sea level rise, CO2 emissions, sea ice decline, permafrost melt and carbon feedbacks, rainfall intensity and northern hemisphere snow cover.

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 intensitIn 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 intensitin a future climate did not change, there would be an increase in extreme rainfall intensitin extreme rainfall intensity.

It has been tight - lipped even about the risks for its massive oil refinery facilities in coastal areas subject to storm surges and flooding and associated with sea - level rise and the projected increased intensity and rainfall rates of North Atlantic hurricanes.

Yes, in the US one is not allowed to point out simple physical connections, like how transpiration increases when growing seasons are longer, like how evaporation increases when lakes and reservoirs are warmer, like how rainfall intensity increases when climate is more humid and warmer, like how winter floods increase when climate is more humid and warmer?

This event is associated with cold and dry conditions increasing with latitude in the North, temperature and precipitation influences on tropical and boreal wetlands, Siberian - like winters in much of the North Atlantic, weakening of monsoon intensity, and southward displacement of tropical rainfall patterns.

In addition to rising global temperatures, the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme rainfall events is one of the clearest already observed effects of climate change.