Sentences with phrase «increasing available moisture»

A study which says that irrigation has caused 0.1 % of warming to be blunted by increasing available moisture isn't telling the complete story unless it also includes warming increases due to draining of wetlands.

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New Zealand experienced an extreme two - day rainfall in December 2011; researchers said 1 to 5 percent more moisture was available for that event due to climate change, which is increasing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

In general, climate scientists expect heavy downpours to increase over the U.S. and elsewhere, as a warmer atmosphere can hold more moisture, making more of it available to fall as rain.

Global warming had increased the amount of atmospheric moisture available to condense into rain, and La Niña, a circulation pattern that can produce heavy rains in Pakistan, was in progress.

But also keep in mind that Lambeck et al (2002) have suggested that loss of permanent ice over the Arctic Sea at the end of the last interglacial allowed for increased accumulation of snow and ice at high latitudes because of the increased amount of moisture available.

The study said the changes in extreme wet and dry spell characteristics are supported by increases in convective available potential energy and low - level moisture convergence.

So potentially you would have more moisture available to this storm, just because the oceans are hotter because of global warming — and that could potentially increase the impacts of a storm like this.

Global analyses show that the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere has in fact increased due to human - caused warming.8, 9,10,11 This extra moisture is available to storm systems, resulting in heavier rainfalls.

Without a corresponding change (i.e., increase) in precipitation, this leads to a reduction of plant available soil moisture which increases plant water stress through the growing season, thereby reducing GPP.

This is a logical result of the fact that a warmer Earth will have increased evaporation from the oceans, and thus more moisture will be available for precipitation.

Using a simple physical model, O'Gorman suggests that this is due to the balance between two competing effects caused by the warming: increasing moisture available for humidity and the decreases in the fraction of precipitation that falls as snow.

This, in turn, increases the amount of atmospheric moisture that is available for storms to process into rainfall.

A consequence of increased heating from the human - induced enhanced greenhouse effect is increased evaporation, provided that adequate surface moisture is available (as it always is over the oceans and other wet surfaces).

In contrast, increased thaw depth and increased water - use efficiency under elevated CO2 will tend to increase available soil moisture, decreasing fire frequency and increasing woody biomass.