Sentences with phrase «less rainfall there»

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.»

Not exact matches

Matching the models with stalagmites There was a much clearer correlation between less rainfall in the region and the Heinrich events, Carolin said.

In the Southeast air pollution that begins accumulating on Monday causes rainfall to, more or less, occur during the week, when there are the most particles in the air.

Interestingly, the study shows that there is a long - term decline in heavy rainfall events (greater than 25 mm / h) and an associated increase in the number of smaller storms each delivering less rainfall.

There have been significant regional trends in rainfall with the northern, eastern and southern parts of the continent receiving greater rainfall and the western region receiving less.

The «land of smiles» has a tropical climate with rainy and dry seasons, and many consider the best time to visit between November and February, when the temperatures are not too hot, and there is less rainfall than at other times.

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.

Research indicates that the Arctic had substantially less sea ice during this period compared to present Current desert regions of Central Asia were extensively forested due to higher rainfall, and the warm temperate forest belts in China and Japan were extended northwards West African sediments additionally record the «African Humid Period», an interval between 16,000 and 6,000 years ago when Africa was much wetter due to a strengthening of the African monsoon While there do not appear to have been significant temperature changes at most low latitude sites, other climate changes have been reported.

As the earth warms, we expect to see currently wet regions receiving more rainfall, and dry regions receiving less, although there will be exceptions,» Stocker said.

There's going to be less rainfall in already arid regions, that's fairly certain.

There is a note that rainfall reconstructions are noticably less satisfactory for very wet years - which has also been commented on by other tree ring observers.

Part way there, but no quantitation yet: of the 3.77 W / m ^ 2 radiated back dowwnard, most goes to increased rate of evaporation of the water at the surface, and much less goes to increased mean temp increase at the surface; hence increased rate of non-radiative transfer of heat from surface to upper atmosphere, slight increase in rainfall as hydrological cycle is faster, and slight increase in cloud cover.

«You get a little drop in rainfall and then plants are under more stress and there is less flow into streams,» he said... «I think that all the prognoses for climate change is that the South - West is going to keep drying out and getting hotter,» he said.

Importantly, the changes in cereal yield projected for the 2020s and 2080s are driven by GHG - induced climate change and likely do not fully capture interannual precipitation variability which can result in large yield reductions during dry periods, as the IPCC (Christensen et al., 2007) states: ``... there is less confidence in the ability of the AOGCMs (atmosphere - ocean general circulation models) to generate interannual variability in the SSTs (sea surface temperatures) of the type known to affect African rainfall, as evidenced by the fact that very few AOGCMs produce droughts comparable in magnitude to the Sahel droughts of the 1970s and 1980s.»

«There is the potential for extremely hot summertime temperatures in the future, especially during summers with less - than - average frequent rainfall,» said lead author Barry Lynn of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University, New York.

It says that there is now less confidence that global average rainfall has increased in the past, but there is greater confidence that it will rise in the future, according to the CSE.

Worse, there was much less rainfall in many places, together with high winds and severe dust storms.