Sentences with phrase «less rainfall over»

This would lead to lower relative humidity and less rainfall over land according to my sense of it, and this drying would accelerate land warming even more.

Indeed, although the 2012 summer experienced less rainfall over the central Great Plains than in either 1934 or 1936, those years were about 0.5 °C warmer.»

There was less rainfall over land, and a record decrease in runoff and ocean discharge into the ocean from October 1991 to September 1992, the scientists report this week in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

Not exact matches

Moreover, the models also found that warming leads to more humidity over the Pacific, which should have caused more rainfall, not less.

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

Over the past few years, many parts of the country has had less rainfall than in the past.

Over the course of an average February, New York is subject to 57mm / 2 inches of rainfall divided between nine rainy days and six snowy days — that's quite a lot less than last month.

Most TS losses occur from the storm surge, the water pushed over the land, or inland flooding caused by huge amounts of rainfall often generated by lesser tropical storms hung up over coastlines.

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Snowfall varies across the region, comprising less than 10 % of total precipitation in the south, to more than half in the north, with as much as two inches of water available in the snowpack at the beginning of spring melt in the northern reaches of the river basins.81 When this amount of snowmelt is combined with heavy rainfall, the resulting flooding can be widespread and catastrophic (see «Cedar Rapids: A Tale of Vulnerability and Response»).82 Historical observations indicate declines in the frequency of high magnitude snowfall years over much of the Midwest, 83 but an increase in lake effect snowfall.61 These divergent trends and their inverse relationships with air temperatures make overall projections of regional impacts of the associated snowmelt extremely difficult.

Typically increases in total rainfall over India may be in the region of 5 - 10 %, although some climate models suggest more and some less.

He says average rainfall for Australia will decrease, but the extreme weather events will be on the rise, so while you might get less rain over the year it will come in the form of damaging storms and stronger winds which feel like so - called freak events.

«Change in the risk of river flooding from the Thames and other large rivers in London is less clear, because this depends on changes in the amounts of rainfall accumulated over days or indeed weeks.»

These include an increase of rainfall in north - western Australia, and an increase of air pressure over southern Australia, which may have contributed to less rainfall there.»

«Rainfall was four to six times higher over warm areas (cropland) than when no deforestation has occurred, while rainfall over the remaining forest was half or less,» stated a press release from the American Geophysical Union, which publishes Geophysical Research Rainfall was four to six times higher over warm areas (cropland) than when no deforestation has occurred, while rainfall over the remaining forest was half or less,» stated a press release from the American Geophysical Union, which publishes Geophysical Research rainfall over the remaining forest was half or less,» stated a press release from the American Geophysical Union, which publishes Geophysical Research Letters.