Sentences with phrase «less precipitation»

Accordingly, there will be less precipitation in form of snow too, and snow covers will be prone to melting faster.

The resulting dry conditions will increase the pressure on groundwater supplies as more is pumped to meet demand even as less precipitation falls to replenish it.

Without those rare ice - forming triggers, much of the planet would see less precipitation than it does today.

There could also be less precipitation overall because of warming, or because what falls as snow melts earlier, so that by spring, there is less snow on the ground.

Less precipitation leads to reduced runoff for communities, industry and agriculture.

For example, in Southern California, tropical widening may be associated with less precipitation.

During El Niño, warmer waters in the southeastern Pacific create air pressure systems that drive rain out over the ocean, resulting in less precipitation over the continent itself.

In fact, calendar year 2013 now appears to be the driest on record to date — specifically, California has received less precipitation during the period January 1, 2013 — November 13, 2013 than during any other January 1 — November 13 period in at least the past 119 years.

This means that many populated zones will receive less precipitation.

An erroneous correlation between glacial phases and pluvial phases in the tropics has been widely accepted in the past, although cold ocean water means less precipitation, not more.

As the climate changes in response to global warming, longer and more severe droughts are projected for the western US The resulting dry conditions will increase the pressure on groundwater supplies as more is pumped to meet demand even as less precipitation falls to replenish it.

The data suggest there will be less precipitation next month in the Interior but more along the Arctic Ocean coast, and warmer temperatures.

In general, the northern part of the U.S. is projected to see more winter and spring precipitation, while the southwestern U.S. is projected to experience less precipitation in the spring.

Less humidity in the air means less local rain and less precipitation replenishing glaciers and rivers.

Catchy moniker aside, Swain said this «anomalous, extraordinary» ridge was anchored in the northeast Pacific for most of 2013 and the early part of 2014, resulting in much less precipitation than normal for well over a year.

The chart's green curve indicates that those periods with less precipitation (i.e. droughts) are more common when cooler temps prevail - more arid conditions, with less food production make people (and societies) rather restless.

A radical meteorology theory argues that loss of forest, both in temperate and tropical regions, will lead to less precipitation over land.

Some of this is characteristic of La Niña... as the southern tier of the United States sees less precipitation during La Niña winters.»

Even as global rainfall is expected to increase, Allen, Landuyt, and Rumbold write, there's likely to be less frequent rainfall and, in some regions, less precipitation overall, resulting in higher aerosol concentrations.

In northern California, that means less precipitation.

Increasingly, d ry conditions will increase the pressure on groundwater supplies as more is pumped to meet demand even as less precipitation falls to replenish it.

More water vapor from a warming ocean, less precipitation in continental interiors, more precipitation in coastal zones, more precipitation as rain rather than as snow, drier soil and vegetation in an expanding subtropical dry zone — and that's just under current conditions.

Rising temperatures and less precipitation have had a bigger effect on fire risk in a temperate region like Northern California but has less of an impact in an area that's already hot and dry, like Los Angeles County.

«For example, regions with more or less precipitation may have different vegetation patterns, which can alter the abundance of insects, the primary food resource for these birds,» she said.

Based on these figures, I suppose that the West Greenland ice melting was larger in the 1930 - 1950 period than in the 1985 - 2005 period... Alternative explanations may be that the Greenland ice melting has nothing to do with temperature, but with more insolation (less clouds), less precipitation, more soot deposit,...

It's not that less precipitation is falling (though that is happening in some areas).

The fact that wamer air can hold more water vapor is also leading to more drought in continental inland regions, since the soil water goes into the air, but there's less precipitation (due to the warmer, but unsaturated, air).

Like a dark curtain pulled over large parts of the globe, the smoke would cause cool temperatures, darkness, less precipitation and even ozone depletion.

It would result in a * reduced * rate of cooling with height and therefore, arguably, less precipitation.

Nor is anyone informed that during an earlier cool phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation, the droughts of the 1950s brought even less precipitation to the region, yet there was still greater river flow and less damage to the bay's fisheries.

Instead of wet weather arriving throughout the regular five months or so of winter, there's likely to be less precipitation during the autumn and spring months and more in the mid-winter months — although that wasn't the case this year.

As water quantities slow with less precipitation, a concentration of nutrients and sediments reduces the water quality.

Hydroelectricity is ruled out because major rivers ran dry in Burke's fantasy in which higher temperatures cause more evaporation but less precipitation.

In the wet forest, less precipitation and higher temperatures equally reduced cv, while in the dry forest, the impact of precipitation was dominating.

If the planet cools too much, less water will evaporate and there will be less precipitation to remove CO2; the CO2 will build up, warming the planet.

Less precipitation falls in the arid central areas, which also receive more sunshine than the coast or the Andean cordillera.

A radical meteorology theory argues that loss of forest, both in temperate and tropical regions, will lead to less precipitation over...

Climate change, in the form of rising temperatures and less precipitation, is shrinking the carbon sink of western Canada's forest, according to a new study released today in the Proceedings...

Its impacts result from the interplay between the natural event (less precipitation than expected) and the demand people place on water supply, and human activities can exacerbate the impacts of drought.