Sentences with phrase «increased precipitation»

The increased precipitation that ensues seems to only occur during a strong El Niño.

For example, increased precipitation in already well - watered areas can increase concerns about drainage and water - logging (Parkinson and Mark, 2005), while reduced precipitation in areas already subject to water shortages could lead to infrastructure crises.

Meehl's study suggests that the planet will continue to see increased precipitation for several more decades, regardless of any changes humans make now.

The combination of the warming with increased greenhouse gases and the increased precipitation falling as rain rather than snow is a double whammy for the region.

Uniformly wetter, or will some areas receive the bulk of the increased precipitation?

The site, designed to exploit grasslands as models for understanding how ecosystems may respond to climate change, hosts a number of studies of the potential effects from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, elevated temperature, increased precipitation, and increased nitrogen deposition.

Even worse is the BS that increased evaporation will not lead to increased precipitation.

Discussions of agriculture and forestry problems such as regional droughts and changing types of plants must include the expansion of production areas, general increased precipitation, and CO2 fertilization.

The cause of the growth is concluded to be due to increased precipitation caused by a warming climate.

Second, although sea - level rise will continue for many centuries to come, the models unanimously show that Greenland's ice shelf will be reduced, but Antarctic ice will increase even more (because of increased precipitation in Antarctica) for the next three centuries.

Increased precipitation is expected with rising temps.

I have spent most of my life in very dry areas of Africa, where increased precipitation of that order would be most welcome, as also where I now live in Australia.

# 2 — Yes, increasing specific humidity was been observed for about 20 years now, and is indeed likely to cause — even to be causing — increased precipitation, especially extreme precipitation events.

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.

I'm not sure whether this is off topic, but I have read in other threads that there is less cold water plunging to the ocean floor around Antarctica (and presumably the Arctic too) due to the sea water becoming less saline due to increased precipitation and melting polar ice.

«The recent increase in atmospheric methane is due to surface warming of Arctic and mid-latitude wetlands and to a lesser extent increased precipitation over parts of Africa,» added Palmer.

That's the case in Antarctica, which is geographically very different to the Arctic, where an increase in surface sea ice area, but not total volume, is currently being observed due to increased precipitation and increased surface water run off.

Current models suggest ice mass losses increase with temperature more rapidly than gains due to increased precipitation and that the surface mass balance becomes negative (net ice loss) at a global average warming (relative to pre-industrial values) in excess of 1.9 to 4.6 °C.

Because precipitation comes mainly from weather systems that feed on the water vapour stored in the atmosphere, this has generally increased precipitation intensity and the risk of heavy rain and snow events.

As for the 2006 study, it goes on to say: «The main exception is the Southwest and parts of the interior of the West, where, notwithstanding increased precipitation (and in some cases increased soil moisture and runoff), increased temperature has led to trends in drought characteristics that are mostly opposite to those for the rest of the country especially in the case of drought duration and severity, which have increased.»

In contrast, the west coast of North America is affected by increased precipitation resulting in moister soil and more moderate increases in extreme temperature.

This is because more warmth in Antarctica would allow the air to hold more water vapour, leading to increased precipitation and so a thickening of the snow cover.

Moreover, mortality resulted from increased precipitation through smaller, more frequent events, underscoring the importance of precipitation event size and timing, and highlighting our inadequate understanding of relationships between climate and ecosystem function in drylands.

The point remains, climate change isn't equivalent to global warming, and global warming isn't equivalent to a» genic CO2, which isn't equivalent to increased precipitation.

So really there are only one or two steps here — antropogenic CO2 leads to increased precipitation in some parts of the world, or anthropogenic CO2 leads to increased temperature which leads to increased precipitation.

Increased precipitation in the US southwest, more numerous and severe storms, and more Pacific hurricanes.

As Surfrider has mentioned in several previous blogs, climate change will produce more rain because as the atmosphere warms, it holds more moisture which will lead to increased precipitation.

But the point is that, such a cascade doesn't want us to understand simply the relationship between increased precipitation and mosquitoes, but between climate change and death.

We don't know how much climate change will be caused by X amount of CO2, nor how much of that climate change will manifest as increased precipitation, and where.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/02/140202111055.htm «The satellite observations have shown that warming of the tropical Indian Ocean and tropical Western Pacific Ocean — with resulting increased precipitation and water vapor there — causes the opposite effect of cooling in the TTL region above the warming sea surface.

We said that it seems intuitively the case that increased precipitation is obviously very likely to provide better habitats for mosquitoes.

«I assume the reason for the WHO making this correlation between increased precipitation and increased malaria is based upon scientific evidence from studies of malaria incidence related to precipitation rather than just conjecture.

We could, with the right intervention, abolish the relationship between increased precipitation and mosquitoes altogether.

But increased precipitation has demonstrably reduced the extent of the Sahara.

Despite use by at least 52 countries around the world, the National Academy of Sciences and the American Meteorological Society have both stated that there is no evidence that cloud - seeding actually leads to increased precipitation.

Likewise steps 3 — 4 are non-existent, increased precipitation is climate change.

Of course, we can say that increased precipitation causes better conditions for mosquitoes, generally.

But you can be surer about climate change than you can be sure about increased precipitation.

- I thought mass was trending up due to increased precipitation that goes with the warmer temps associated with global warming down there.

But global warming isn't increased precipitation.

As concentrations of atmospheric greenhouse gases increase and the climate warms, it is expected that there will be increased precipitation in mid-latitudes and less formation of sea ice.

«antropogenic CO2 leads to increased precipitation in some parts of the world, or anthropogenic CO2 leads to increased temperature which leads to increased precipitation.»

(There is also always the possibility of increased precipitation downwind or seeding going outside the target area.)

One sentence summary: A strengthened subtropical jet stream — which is the primary means by which El Niño brings increased precipitation to California — is unlikely to occur prior to winter due to the intrinsic seasonal cycle of temperature variations across the Pacific Basin.

I can; t get at the full paper, as it is behind a paywall and my Big Oil cheque seems to have been delayed yet again, but even the abstract says that the glacier advance was due to increased precipitation, and makes no mention of temperature.

And just for fun... I thought increased precipitation was a predicted consequence of warmer temperatures, not colder ones?

One suggestion is that a warmer climate would have increased precipitation efficiency, causing more moisture to rain out, with less detrainment and a smaller area of upper - level cloud cover, limiting the positive longwave forcing (Lindzen et al. 2001).

Specifically, both observations and GOGA indicate increased precipitation to the northeast of New Zealand extending to 30 ° S.

Using pollen based climate reconstructions, Field et al. (1994) suggest that instability of the AMOC due to high summer insolation and increased precipitation may have led to cold winters in northern Europe.

«The mechanism is most likely due to increased precipitation as forecast by global climate models,» said Bruce Peterson, a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.