Sentences with phrase «lightning increases in a warmer»
The most commonly used method for representing lightning in global atmospheric models generally predicts lightning increases in a warmer world.
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Today's climate models predict a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change.
And since lightning strikes are predicted to increase in a warming world... we may end up seeing less of the Sun itself... but more of its electrifying influence.
In the remainder, such increases were mostly unrelated to warming or drying trends and therefore may be due to other climate effects not explored (e.g. lightning ignitions) or possible anthropogenic influences.
Scientists also have found that every degree of warming sets off a 12 percent increase in lightning activity, Flannigan says.
Regardless of the extent to which lightning increases with warming, lightning damage should increase because of its role in igniting forest fires.
Today's climate models predict a 50 percent increase in lightning strikes across the United States during this century as a result of warming temperatures associated with climate change.
Compared to those problems (bias and random variation), here is a large unknown: a 2 % increase in cloud cover would prevent the warming effect of increased CO2; will a 7 % increase in water vapor pressure, or 12 % increase in lightning ground strike rate, or a 2 % — 7 % increase in rainfall rate be accompanied by a 2 % increase in cloud cover?