Sentences with phrase «increased peak summer»

Under climate change, increased water stress, increased peak summer heat stress causing increased mortality, vulnerability to disease and subsequent fire, as well as decreased reproduction rates could lead to large - scale dieback of the boreal forests (77, 86), with transitions to open woodlands or grasslands.

Not exact matches

Valeant shares are down 85 % this year, and 95 % since their peak price in summer 2015, as accounting errors have led to a criminal investigation of its practices and its drug - price increases have come under fire with regulators.

Nationally, the index (which showed 15 years of house price increases up to its peak early in 2006) is now back to the levels of summer 2003.

Add to this an economic rebound, and Texas» grid operator is predicting a 2.7 % increase in peak electricity demand in the summer of 2018 over the previous record, set in August 2016.

Last summer, demand peaked at 9.6 million, an increase of about one - half million.

The Climate Central analysis of San Joaquin Valley air data showed that while the number of days each year on which levels of PM2.5 exceeded federal standards declined by about 45 percent overall from 2000 to 2016, they increased by almost a third during the peak summer fire season.

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

Philip Saunders, Air Malta's chief commercial officer, said: «We are excited to be returning to Glasgow Airport in 2014 and have decided to start our summer 2014 programme earlier than planned due to an increase in demand for shoulder and off - peak holidays.

Add to this an economic rebound, and Texas» grid operator is predicting a 2.7 % increase in peak electricity demand in the summer of 2018 over the previous record, set in August 2016.

As demand increases towards its summer peak level, the utilization rates for both coal - and natural gas - fired units tend to rise.

These prices have been influenced by mild summer temperatures (with fewer and shorter high - price peak periods), reduced demand and the growing deployment of rooftop solar PV, and the increasing capacity of connected wind farms, «the lower operating costs of which put downwards pressure on spot prices.»

Increasingly severe weather (summer and winter) would increase peak demand - so build extra capacity?

The increases occurred largely during the winter months and the impact on peak summer design conditions and cooling requirements, and hence energy use, was considered insignificant.

IIRC that's about the temporal distance to Milankovitch peaking in favor of glacier building then NH summer and winter insolation disparity starts to increase again.

Increases in winter and early - spring stream flow — followed by decreases in late spring, summer, and early fall — have already been observed over the past 50 years.6 Peak spring runoff is occurring anywhere from a few days to 25 - 30 days earlier throughout the region.7

In contrast, the scenario in Fig. 5A, with global warming peaking just over 1 °C and then declining slowly, should allow summer sea ice to survive and then gradually increase to levels representative of recent decades.

The boreal summer insolation increase during termination III is similar to the last deglaciation, as is the timing of the event relative to the peak in insolation (Fig. 2D).

Monthly data allow users to see seasonal patterns, such as periods of nuclear refueling outages in the shoulder seasons (spring and fall) and increased operation of peaking generators during the periods of highest electricity demand in the summer months (driven primarily by air conditioning use).

World and China sulphate emissions peaked in the early 1990s, which would have led to decreased clouds and increased solar insolation in the Arctic, resulting in increased summer ice melt.

Their research proves that the number of moves increases in the summer months, peaking in June.