Sentences with phrase «increased soil evaporation»

So it seems quite clear that there is a potential connection, in a statistical sense, between human - caused global warming, declining Arctic sea ice, and the anomalous blocking pattern this winter that has added to other factors we know are tied to human - caused climate change (warmer temperatures and increased soil evaporation, and decreased winter snowpack and freshwater runoff) to produce the unprecedented drought this year in California.

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Increased temperatures trigger more evaporation from reservoirs, and accelerate water loss from soils needed for agricultural production — all factors that boost demand for water, he added.

Global warming is desiccating the region in two ways: higher temperatures that increase evaporation in already parched soils, and weaker winds that bring less rain from the Mediterranean Sea during the wet season (November to April).

The apparent rise in evapotranspiration — the process by which water is transferred from the land to the atmosphere by evaporation from plants and soil — is increasing potential drought risk with rising temperature trends, especially during periodic drought cycles that have been linked with strong El Nino events.

They found that evaporation of water from the soil surface significantly decreased with increasing aggregate mulch thickness.

Not only does this limit the land available for use in agriculture, but in land that has been used for generations, the combination of irrigation and evaporation gradually leads to increasing soil salinity.

Those high temperatures have helped allow drought to flourish in the Northeast and Southeast, as they increase the amount of evaporation from soils and transpiration from trees.

However, in many of the same places, actual evapotranspiration inferred from surface water balance exhibits an increase in association with enhanced soil wetness from increased precipitation, as the actual evapotranspiration becomes closer to the potential evaporation measured by the pans.

In a world warming from increasing greenhouse gases, evaporation from oceans, lakes and soils also increases.

Plant die - off means carbon dioxide is released and more soil is exposed, increasing evaporation, and thus drying out the soil for neighboring plants.

Still more evaporation from the soil and an increased risk of drought.

Like we mentioned above, as temperatures rise, evaporation increases and soils dry out.

But going into spring and summer, soil should dry out more quickly (and it has been) given a decreased warm month precipitation and increased rate of evaporation.

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

At the local scale, high temperatures may lead to increased evaporation and decreased soil moisture, resulting in an «agricultural drought».

Warm temperatures increase the rate of evaporation from parched soils and critically dry rivers, lakes, and streams — exacerbating the impacts of existing precipitation deficits.

On average, lakes have decreased in area in the last 50 years in the southern two - thirds of Alaska, 102,103,87,88 due to a combination of permafrost thaw, greater evaporation in a warmer climate, and increased soil organic accumulation during a longer season for plant growth.

Fires: We know that higher temperatures lead to increased rates of evaporation, leading to rapid drying of soils.

Since the soil moisture in permafrost regions in the warm period is already very high, evaporation would not necessarily increase.

Warmer temperatures also increase evaporation in soil, which affects plant life and can reduce rainfall even more.

With increased temperatures comes increased evaporation from the surface, be it water or soil.

One of the most well - known effects of global warming is an intensification of the water cycle, with higher air temperatures leading to increased evaporation from the seas and soils, and more atmospheric water vapor contributing to more frequent heavy precipitation events.

Warmer temperatures can directly increase evaporation rates, and also affect the water vapour transport within soils themselves, further adding to the evaporative demand.

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