Sentences with phrase «intense rainfall events»

The storm fits the current pattern experienced in the warming world in which higher temperatures are driving more intense rainfall events.

As for heavy downpours, by the end of the century intense rainfall events that now statistically occur once every 20 years will happen once every 5 years.

Changes in extreme episodes included positive trends in warm nights, and a positive tendency for intense rainfall events and consecutive dry days.

According to him, in the past 30 years — with a couple of exceptions — we've had mostly mild winters, and we're seeing more intense rainfall events.

Intense rainfall events contribute a disproportionate amount of erosion relative to the total rainfall contribution, and this effect will only be exacerbated in the future if the frequency of such storms increases.

Research conducted so far suggests that MTR mining can contribute to greater flooding during intense rainfall events, but some studies actually found less severe flooding in watersheds with mining.

The International Panel of Climate Change (IPCC), the leading group of the world's scientists says that glacier melting (retreat) and intense rainfall events are two leading manifestations of the warming weather.

So to, are the more intense rainfall events likely to result from climate change — and note that these can occur in the same places as droughts.

QUOTE 3 (in that same page range): «The absence of an attributable climate change signal in losses also holds for flood losses» is followed by the conveniently omitted phrase «although some studies did find recent increases in flood losses related in part to changes in intense rainfall events (Fengqing et al., 2005; Chang et al., 2009).»

Sebastian said focusing on 100 - year events is also problematic because short, intense rainfall events that don't meet the 100 - year threshold can still cause serious flooding.

Not exact matches

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.

That signal is translating into all sorts of events — droughts, intense rainfall, more intense tropical cyclone activity, crop stress, heat waves, and so on.

An increased risk of intense, short - duration rainfall events in mid-latitude regions has been predicted consistently for well over a decade as part of the pattern of human influence on precipitation.

That means whenever we have heavy (and prolonged) rainfall events in the future, we can expect them to be more intense.

The another most important climate variation is El Niño — Southern Oscillation (ENSO) events, which impact the global oceanic and atmospheric circulations which thereby produce droughts, floods and intense rainfall in certain regions.

Such extreme rainfall events are likely to get even more intense as our climate warms.

We are already seeing more intense storms and more heatwaves and higher extreme rainfall events, all at damaging levels so it can only get worse over the next 30 years imho.

Precipitation occurs about once every seven days in the western part of the region and once every three days in the southeastern part.77 The 10 rainiest days can contribute as much as 40 % of total precipitation in a given year.77 Generally, annual precipitation increased during the past century (by up to 20 % in some locations), with much of the increase driven by intensification of the heaviest rainfalls.77, 78,79 This tendency towards more intense precipitation events is projected to continue in the future.80

Projections suggest an increase in extreme weather events, such as heavy rainfall, more intense storms and heat - waves.

Observational data, evidence from field experiments, and quantitative modeling are the evidence base of the negative effects of extreme weather events on crop yield: early spring heat waves followed by normal frost events have been shown to decimate Midwest fruit crops; heat waves during flowering, pollination, and grain filling have been shown to significantly reduce corn and wheat yields; more variable and intense spring rainfall has delayed spring planting in some years and can be expected to increase erosion and runoff; and floods have led to crop losses.4, 5,6,7

Lenderink, G., E. van Meijgaard en F. Selten (2009), Intense coastal rainfall in the Netherlands in response to high sea surface temperatures: analysis of the event of August 2006 from the perspective of a changing climate; Clim.

There wasn't much impact on daily peak river levels, since this is about sustained rather than intense rainfall, but 100 - year highs in monthly averaged river levels became about 80 - year events.

However, the report does say it is very likely that there will be more intense precipitation events over many areas, and that peak winds and rainfall rates from hurricanes are also likely to be higher.

In addition to direct crop damage from increasingly intense precipitation events, wet springs can delay planting for grain and vegetables in New York, for example, and subsequently delay harvest dates and reduce yields.67 This is an issue for agriculture nationally, 65 but is particularly acute for the Northeast, where heavy rainfall events have increased more than in any other region of the country (Ch.

In particular, over NH land, an increase in the likelihood of very wet winters is projected over much of central and northern Europe due to the increase in intense precipitation during storm events, suggesting an increased chance of flooding over Europe and other mid-latitude regions due to more intense rainfall and snowfall events producing more runoff.

The events were triggered by a period of intense rainfall and a rapid rise in temperatures, which rose by 27 ˚C in a little over two days.

Statistical analysis of rainfall data from 1901 to 2010, derived from thousands of weather stations around the globe, shows that from 1980 to 2010 there were 12 % more of these intense events than would be expected in a climate without global warming.