Sentences with phrase «lasting effects of drought»

Over the course of a century, the lasting effects of drought could lead to 3 percent lower carbon storage in semi-arid forests, such as those in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico, according to the study.

Not exact matches

Along the U.S. West Coast, the jet stream was shifted hundreds of kilometers north last winter, which had the effect of dousing the Pacific Northwest with extraordinary precipitation while Southern California experienced its fourth straight year of drought.

Yet even last summer — staring at the effects of growth and drought on the reservoir, where once - drowned islands were visible for the first time in as much as 75 years — Mulroy apologized for none of it.

An «urgent call» to understand risks of stress Researchers who were not involved with the new study said it was a good initial estimate of the impact of last year's drought but cautioned that the ultimate effect of the dry spell is not yet clear.

«From a policy perspective, we have to recognize that we have been trending toward drier conditions over the last 1,500 years and the warming in Nevada is only going to exacerbate that trend,» he said, noting that «warmer temperatures cause more soil moisture to evaporate so you amplify the effects of drought when climate is warming.

Last winter the Sierra was virtually snowless, dramatically compounding the effects of California's four - year drought.

For major droughts that last a month or longer, cumulative effects again become important as the absence of moisture means that all heating goes into sensible heating, creating higher temperatures, that in turn desiccate plants, and promote heat waves and wild fires.

The reality is that because of the extraordinary speed at which changes are happening (this year's storms, fires, droughts, heat waves, ecological disruptions and other effects compared to last year's or the year before, for example) the speed at which we have to act is extraordinary, too.

It may seem paradoxical to talk of the relative stability of climate in the last 8,000 years, and then mention the devastation caused by decades - long droughts and El Niños, but the latter are truly small stuff compared to the abrupt climate flips with their synchronous worldwide effects.

The recent «non-winter» effect in much of the real Upper Midwest has been accompanied by isolated «snow droughts» (2002 - 03, last year... jury still out on this one), but otherwise normal, near - normal, and above - normal levels of snowfall.

That misery is bound to end and the last of the year's 100 - plus temperatures may be recorded this week, but this drought will have a ripple effect that will spread beyond the region in the months ahead, having an impact on the one place Americans do not need to feel the hurt: their pocketbooks.

Climate change intensifies droughts in Europe, Researchers model the effects of the global temperature rise Date: April 23, 2018 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research — UFZ Summary: Global warming will exacerbate soil droughts in Europe — droughts will last longer, affect greater areas, and have an impact on more people.

«We are also developing high - spatial - resolution gross - primary - productivity estimates of Mexico for the last decade and we will be studying the effect of droughts, hurricanes and fires at the regional scale,» he said.

Droughts in the West, floods in Texas, tornadoes in the Midwest and increasing severity of storms along the East Coast and in the South are all evidence that climate change — whatever the cause — is real, and will have lasting effects on owners, inve...