Sentences with phrase «like precipitation patterns»

Rosarito Beach has a semi-arid climate with Mediterranean - like precipitation patterns (Köppen climate classification BSh / BSk).

Not exact matches

As Cobb explained, the tropical Pacific, through phenomena like El Niño, plays a very large role in precipitation and global weather patterns like monsoons today.

OK - this is off topic and I know comments like this invoke just the hysteria I don't want to incite from skeptics, but are the weather patterns we are seeing in Iowa (intense precipitation) consistent with what one would expect from warming predictions?

Specifically, as global temperatures have steadily increased at their fastest rates in millions of years, it's directly affected things like water vapor concentrations, clouds, precipitation patterns, and stream flow patterns, which are all related to the water cycle.

Changed pattern and quantity of precipitation in concert with temperature extremes manifests itself in a number of catastrophic outcomes like drought, slides, snowmelts, floods, agricultural productivity loss, and upsurge in diseases which impact both the natural and the human systems [continue reading...]

For example, the Climate and Health Assessment found that «rising temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and a higher frequency of some extreme weather events associated with climate change will influence the distribution, abundance, and prevalence» of some vectors like the mosquitos that carry the West Nile virus.

Dust impact on climate has varied over time, depending on the amount of dust particles in the atmosphere and therefore on aspects like vegetation, wind strength, and precipitation patterns (8 ⇓ — 10).

The results are compared to observations of things like changing global temperatures, local temperatures, and precipitation patterns.

We further find that years with extreme geopotential heights in the climate models exhibit a Triple R - like regional maximum in the northeastern Pacific, and are associated with shifts in wind patterns and precipitation along the West Coast that are strongly reminiscent of those which occurred during 2013 - 2014.

This event is associated with cold and dry conditions increasing with latitude in the North, temperature and precipitation influences on tropical and boreal wetlands, Siberian - like winters in much of the North Atlantic, weakening of monsoon intensity, and southward displacement of tropical rainfall patterns.